Opinion

Here we bring you the thoughts of the natural and organic products industry’s leading commentators and opinion formers.

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Pay us your $3bn fine – we’ll start a nutritional revolution!

This week global drugs industry giant GSK was hit with an eye-watering…

Jim Manson

Organic and Green? It’s our bling.

Residents of Tunbridge Wells are usually acutely aware of their ‘disgusted of’…

Jim Manson

Give yourselves a sporting chance this summer!

Robert Taylor – vice president at Vitabiotics and HFMA Council member –…

Jim Manson

Back to the earth

The philosopher Mary Midgley has written extensively about what modern thinkers can…

Jim Manson

How a downfall in organic sales is good for independent retailers

In March the Soil Association released their Organic Market Report 2012 .…

Simon Wright

Can I get my NHS no-claims bonus?

Isn’t it amazing that the ‘hippy diet’ the authorities once warned would…

Craig Sams

Appy New Year?

Industry analyst Organic Monitor has an intriguing New Year prediction. Not only…

Jim Manson

Hippy days are here again

Isn’t it amazing that the ‘hippy diet’ the authorities once warned would…

Craig Sams

Still making waves

As Rainbow Warrior III sets sail Craig Sams congratulates Greenpeace on being…

Craig Sams

Environmentally challenged

I wonder if George Osborne might come to regret the slightly self-satisfied…

Jim Manson

Ängavallen: Making a case for kindness

Ängavallen Farm in southern Sweden, 20km south of Malmö, has been a…

Jim Manson

Starting where the people are

In her foreword to the Soil Association's new strategy paper The Road…

Jim Manson

Confessions of an organic vegetarian

Meat Free Monday (and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and…)

Simon Wright

Setting a course for the future of organic

Over the past few months the Soil Association’s new director, Helen Browning,…

Jim Manson

Legal, decent, thruthful and honest? Oh, come off it!

Major airlines and detergent brands runs rings round the ASA while the…

Jim Manson

Sweet spot

Last week I visited the brand new £225 million Pembury Hospital, just…

Jim Manson

Guest blog: Amarjit Sahota from Organic Monitor

Leading natural beauty brands are taking their products worldwide in search of…

Jim Manson

Artisan, my a***

Two thoughts came to mind when I was casting around for something…

Jim Manson

There’s only one option with nuclear. Get rid of it.

Nuclear power threatens everything that all living plants and creatures have struggled…

Craig Sams

Beware of cluttered thinking on store layout!

I’m not sure which consumer behavior experts were being referenced in your…

Jim Manson