I'm on Start the Week on Monday (tomorrow) at 9am and again at 9.30pm with some really fascinating authors including who was once on Bake Off and is now writing about how to break our addiction to ultra-processed food. Tune in!
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Eating, worrying, writing #EthicalCarnivore out now #AvocadoAnxiety available to pre-order here linktr.ee/avocadoanxiety Occasionally update
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In 350 BCE Aristotle recorded the octopus’s hectocotylus arm, with which the male literally hands over the sperm to the female, an organ ignored as fanciful until scientists in the 19th Century discovered he was right.
#BEASTLY #cephalopod
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A chap I often work with (in London) asked me a while back... "Why on earth did you move to NW Scotland".
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We're so pleased to have former columnist and friend of Wicked Leeks @loubgray back for a special appearance, with an excerpt from her new book #AvocadoAnxiety. If you've ever had a question about sustainable food, it's probably in there! Here's a taster: wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/forget
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Glad to be back!!
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We're so pleased to have former columnist and friend of Wicked Leeks @loubgray back for a special appearance, with an excerpt from her new book #AvocadoAnxiety. If you've ever had a question about sustainable food, it's probably in there! Here's a taster: wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/forget
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Loved chatting to & on Start the Week today It was a fascinating discussion that covered #broadbeans #schoolmeals & whether or not we have a ‘choice’ about what we eat in the current food environment On again at 9.30pm today & then
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If you were shocked by the statistics quoted by this morning & shocked to hear only half of children growing up in poverty are entitled to a free school meal, then read these reports, particularly if you are in government. And have a heart.
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Great to talk about ‘the food we eat’ with Kimberley Wilson & Louise Gray on BBC R4 this morning. More on our research:
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1012
cpag.org.uk/policy-and-cam
@BrannenJulia @Wendy_J_Wills @herts @CPAGUK @sfmtweet @UCLpress @FoodAndPsych @loubgray @BBCRadio4 @UniofHerts
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Breakfast a little bit influenced by this book #unprocessedbook For the first time in my life I’m thinking about what to eat for my brain, rather than being on a diet… about time. Of course, it should have been kippers #brainhealth
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Fellow social anthropologist also featuring talking about education food & long term health
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Love the illustrations for piece about #avocadoanxiety🥑 & #greenbeans from Kenya today & piece by @boudiccafoxleonard Captures complexities of #foodmiles #carbonfootprint of food & of course avocados…. You can read the piece here
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Make the right choices when it comes to #healthyeating.
discovers the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet in her new book Avocado Anxiety, out 16th February: bit.ly/3Zh7AsN
#sustainability #AvocadoAnxiety
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So we’ll have floods & droughts… but at least we’ll have apples Similar programmes going on in England as uk warms #applesinawarmerworld #climatechange #fruit
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VentureFruit unveils Tutti, world’s first ever hot-climate apple ow.ly/iGuZ104u7PR
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‘We are only growing a third of the fruit & vegetables in the world that are needed to allow everyone to eat a healthy diet, & about twelve times too much sugar’ tells government
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Is foraged food more nutritious? Could bees be the answer to using fewer chemicals? How do we save genetic diversity in our apples?
answers these questions and more in Avocado Anxiety, out next week: bit.ly/3Zh7AsN
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Please share: Local pupils, librarians, teachers, parents & book lovers will be protesting Midlothian
Council's plan to cut school libraries in their schools.
Join us outside the Council Chambers on Tuesday 21st February at 10:30 in Dalkeith. Please Bring a Book & a Placard.
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We’re thrilled to announce our intention to launch a new annual prize, the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction!
We're seeking sponsorship for the Non-Fiction Prize, to amplify female voices & books that inform, entertain and disrupt
Share to spread the word: bit.ly/_WPNF
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Can I try these please I’ve just written a book about the extension of seasonality in fruit & I’d like to see if strawberries really do taste of summer when produced all year round… thanks
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Strawberry production underway at UK’s largest vertical farm ow.ly/uXAr104tCQm
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Really accessible way to compare foods & understand the complexity
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Terrific presentation of some important information on the footprint of your food wapo.st/3Jx2seI
I love an unboxing video! Excitement building for launch of #avocadoanxiety next week. You can pre-order here linktr.ee/avocadoanxiety #books #environment #food
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Who doesn't love an unboxing video?? We've got copies of #AvocadoAnxiety by @loubgray and they look incredible
Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?
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Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?
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If we want high quality home grown fruit and veg, the supply chain will need to provide a fairer return that covers inflation.
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Positive first review of #avocadoanxiety today thetimes.co.uk/article/avocad I love how took as an opening how lucky we are to have access to such a wide variety of fruit & veg We do! But as I point out it does not without consequences No more so than the banana
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Happy to report my first review was positive, and Scotland won Phew!!
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Reading my first review of #avocadoanxiety in the pub while watching england vs Scotland in #sixnations Dear God, my nerves
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There's something wonderfully subversive about taking tree cuttings to their new home by Tube. Here, the UK's rarest native tree, the black poplar, travelling on the District Line from Dagenham to add to a growing community of black poplars in Barking.
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For any of you that find large marine litter in a place you cant remove it from (common around the west coast).
The aquaculture industry has set up this email so that they can collect it, they need a picture and a grid ref;
reportdebris@salmonscotland.co.uk
Worth a try!
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VERY excited to receive this by … her Ethical Carnivore was SO good. Was delighted it won two awards.
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This is so interesting! is going to use chicken shit & food waste & algae to grow our vegetables, which is a good thing #lowcarbon
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Really interesting read. I thought our biggest overseas supplier was Spain/Netherlands. Interesting that has switched. Water scarcity also an issue? You can get tomatoes from Morocco I’ve noticed.
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Brexit is still a huge headache for food & farming businesses, but it's also changing what food we see on shelves here. Suppliers reporting a switch to non EU nations, some with lower labour rights - my story below (& as I say on this week's @BBCFoodProg bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0)
Make the right choices when it comes to #healthyeating.
discovers the impact that growing fruits and vegetables has on the planet in her new book Avocado Anxiety, out 16th February: bit.ly/3Zh7AsN
#sustainability #AvocadoAnxiety
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'I’m all for being held to account but we can’t all live off-grid and perfection isn’t a realistic goal.' Read @AnnaTurns on environmentalism and flying: wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/opinion/to-fly How do you balance travel with your green lifestyle choices? Comment below.
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Question for Twitter. What provinces, regions, councils or local govt do roadside hedgerow trimming well, from a biodiversity and road safety perspective. Specifically roadside. Because I'd love to see how that's done.
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If you enjoyed #ethicalcarnivore this goes even deeper into the debate over whether to eat meat taking into account, the environment & culture Recommend👇
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Tune into @BBCRadio4's 'Book of the Week' at 9:45am today to listen to the serialised version of The Meat Paradox by Rob Percival.
#Sustainability #FoodSystem #SustainableFoodSystem
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National Geographic picture of the year. The dark images are only the shadows of actual zebras (zoom in and enjoy).
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Final call for women journalists who'd like their entry fees covered at the . Whether you're freelance, a staffer, hold a senior position or you're early-career, we don't mind. No questions asked. We just want you to apply
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The human pandemic may be under control (for now) but the banana pandemic is only just beginning… #bananageddon
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The spread of Fusarium TR4 continues. The Venezuelan government has informed that Fusarium Tropical Race 4, the causal agent of Fusarium wilt AKA #Panamadisease, is present in 3 Venezuelan states tinyurl.com/4dd2k6vu
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Ooh, I do like it when what I predict in a book actually happens! #avocado anxiety Tesco has grand plans for fava beans | Article | Fruitnet
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