Pay us your $3bn fine – we’ll start a nutritional revolution!
This week global drugs industry giant GSK was hit with an eye-watering $3 billion fine after pleading guilty to healthcare fraud. Why not give...
Give yourselves a sporting chance this summer!
Robert Taylor – vice president at Vitabiotics and HFMA Council member – urges health food retailers to make the most of the opportunity presented...
How a downfall in organic sales is good for independent retailers
In March the Soil Association released their Organic Market Report 2012 . The headline figure (seized on by the media) was that sales of...
Can I get my NHS no-claims bonus?
Isn’t it amazing that the ‘hippy diet’ the authorities once warned would corrupt a generation is now officially endorsed by the medical establishment, says...
Hippy days are here again
Isn’t it amazing that the ‘hippy diet’ the authorities once warned would corrupt a generation is now officially endorsed by the medical establishment, says...
Still making waves
As Rainbow Warrior III sets sail Craig Sams congratulates Greenpeace on being a pain in the bum for evildoers the world over
In 1977 Greenpeace...
Confessions of an organic vegetarian
Meat Free Monday (and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and…)
There is nothing more illogical than an organic vegetarian, but that is what...
Legal, decent, thruthful and honest? Oh, come off it!
Major airlines and detergent brands runs rings round the ASA while the small guys get hauled up on pedantic points of detail, writes Craig...
Guest blog: Amarjit Sahota from Organic Monitor
Leading natural beauty brands are taking their products worldwide in search of future growth, writes Amarjit Sahota, president of Organic Monitor. But where are...
There’s only one option with nuclear. Get rid of it.
Nuclear power threatens everything that all living plants and creatures have struggled for since the miracle of life began, writes Craig Sams.
I had a...
Beware of cluttered thinking on store layout!
I’m not sure which consumer behavior experts were being referenced in your May editorial who concluded that “the messier and more confusing a shop...
So, where are all the bodies?
A new 200-page report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers concludes that nutritional supplements were the cause of zero deaths in the US...
Organic naysayers at it again
This week we’ve seen a few news outlets grabbing eagerly onto another story knocking organic farms.
The two highlights of this story, based on research...
GM potato? I prefer blight-resistant beauties
I love the look of these potatoes and their healthy interesting purpleness.
They have just had their own launch in London at the sustainable London restaurant,...
This. Is. Wrong
Organic has taken a bit of a battering this year . UK sales seem to be down in many sectors: TNS reckon -14% year-on-year....