Opinion

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

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It’s the system, Mary

So, Mary Portas, Queen of Shops, has been drafted in by Coalition…

Jim Manson

Can technology be the making of community retailing?

Several health store owners I spoke with at last month’s Natural &…

Jim Manson

Could your store do with a spot of re-cluttering?

Two or three years ago (just like their UK counterparts) America's biggest…

Jim Manson

So, where are all the bodies?

A new 200-page report from the American Association of Poison Control Centers concludes…

Jim Manson

Prepare for the organic surge!

How many scientists does it take to change a climate sceptic’s mind?…

Jim Manson

Why real change is best served up on a plate

At the back end of last year the former director of the…

Jim Manson

A precautionary tale

Environmental campaigners have for decades argued in favour of the ‘precautionary principle’.…

Jim Manson

Yours awesomely,

“Wow, your blog is awesome. I literally just stumbled across it, but…

Jim Manson

Organic naysayers at it again

This week we’ve seen a few news outlets grabbing eagerly onto another…

Jim Manson

Anti-organic, moi?

I felt almost nostalgic seeing John Krebs having a go at organic…

Jim Manson

Patrick Holden — Natural Products Outstanding Achievement Award winner

Patrick Holden, the Soil Association director, was named the winner of the…

Jim Manson

Burt’s Bees CEO, John Replogle

Earlier this year Burts Bees CEO John Replogle addressed the One Young…

Jim Manson

Goodbye to all that?

To delist, or not to delist, that was the question being asked…

Jim Manson

GM potato? I prefer blight-resistant beauties

I love the look of these potatoes and their healthy interesting purpleness.

Jim Manson

Kinetic energy

Alexander and Kim Barani are two of the health food trade’s biggest…

Jim Manson

But is it art?

For many people in the natural healthcare field professor Edzard Ernst is…

Jim Manson

Signed, sealed and jiggered?

In her opening speech at last week’s Biofach exhibition and Congress, IFOAM…

Jim Manson

So, you think you’re normal?

Deprived of the low-hanging fruit of medical research, the drugs industry now…

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Raymond Blanc

When Raymond Blanc was seven his papa came in from the family…

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This. Is. Wrong

Organic has taken a bit of a battering this year . UK…

Simon Wright