The cynic in me says that talkfests like World Food Day are just that: talkfests. We meet so you can eat, but nothing actually changes as a result. So I was brought up a little short by a post over at Greens & Berries. World Food Day seems actually to have influenced the way one person thinks, a...

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Just for a laugh, I went on the hunt at Science Blogs, searching for “agriculture”. I read the first 15 entries.¹

1. About an artist who wanted to examine GM agriculture.
2. About pollution from intensive chicken operations.
3. About fund-raising for schools in the US, one of which is in an agricu...

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It’s fun when two of my favourite feeds come together in a single item, to whit “Shooting down ‘amateur grammar nazis’” over at Language Log, which riffs on a recent xkcd cartoon.

I remember, as a young cub reporter, being infected with the news editor’s aversion to the sloppy use of “situati...

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How is it possible that only 87 people can churn out 21.7 million lbs of hamburger — that's 9,842 tonnes, 86 million hamburgers, give or take — in a year? Topps Meat Co was forced to close its business on Friday after having to recall all that meat because at least some had been tainted by E. col...

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Start: 95.4 Last week: 89.3 This week: 88.5

Tuesday 11 September: Slowly getting back to where I was, and that despite one of the most delicious steaks I have eaten in a long time. Against the odds, this was cooked in a domestic kitchen, at his home, by a friend. Too often the best home-cooked st...

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