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You may remember my blog earlier this year which introduced the idea that what we see in our food pyramids ...
It is as Swiss as it gets. An acquired taste for some. For the uninitiated, fondue might just seem like ...
24 years ago tomorrow, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and World Health Organisation (WHO) created World Diabetes Day held each ...
Last spring, a colleague and I had just wrapped up another day at a joint claims and underwriting audit in ...
STORY URL: http://media.swissre.com/documents/Are_Potato_Chips_new_Cigarette.pdf
http://media.swissre.com/documents/Are_Potato_Chips_new_Cigarette.pdf
"Well it doesn't make sense to have Thanksgiving dinner without the turkey so I just won't cook." Her arms ...
Once upon a time, in ancient India (actually South India), there lived a great Tamil poet and philosopher called Saint ...
Es gibt kaum ein Problem, bei dem wir Konsumenten so viel mit so einfachen Massnahmen erreichen können, wie im Bereich ...
Every year, more than a trillion eggs are laid globally by hens kept in horrific conditions in battery farms. Josh ...
This headline on cnn.com caught my attention for a number of reasons. One, I just attended the Swiss Re ...
STORY URL: How do you feed the world without starving the planet?
With 7.1 billion mouths to feed, and plenty more on the way, the world needs to find new ways to feed its citizens.
More bad news: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/gfn/page/earth_overshoot_day/ On Tuesday 20 August (according to these ...
The New York Times reports on a new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (accessible through the story), which ...
STORY URL: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/11-trillion-reasons/?hp&_r=0
Lets leave the veg and non-veg debate, shall we? Confusions and debates are bound to happen when its discussed globally ...
STORY URL: Scientists to cook world's first in-vitro beef burger
LONDON (Reuters) - A corner of west London will see culinary and scientific history made on Monday when scientists cook and serve up the world's first lab-grown beef burger.The in-vitro burger, cu...
When I was in high school, I took part in a taste experiment where participants were asked to identify the ...
STORY URL: Lawyers of Big Tobacco Lawsuits Take Aim at Food Industry
More than a dozen lawyers who took on Big Tobacco have filed 25 cases asserting that manufacturers like ConAgra Foods and PepsiCo are misleading consumers and violating federal law.
My primary reason for becoming vegan in January 2012 was the ethics of the consumption and exploitation of animals. The ...
In the summer of 2011, Mark Post, a professor of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, made headlines when ...