The cynic in me says that talkfests like World Food Day are just that: talkfests. We meet so you can eat, but nothing actually changes as a result. So I was brought up a little short by a post over at Greens & Berries. World Food Day seems actually to have influenced the way one person thinks, a...

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Tuesday 16 October: Today is World Food Day. Irony and sarcasm are superfluous.

Why does he wear his cap backwards, like the yoof? Other than that, Looking for Richard doesn’t pose many questions. It’s a good enough watch, and in the end you come away with a film within a film, with the very best bits of Richard III staged rather well. I liked the rapid switches between rehea...

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Just for a laugh, I went on the hunt at Science Blogs, searching for “agriculture”. I read the first 15 entries.¹

1. About an artist who wanted to examine GM agriculture.
2. About pollution from intensive chicken operations.
3. About fund-raising for schools in the US, one of which is in an agricu...

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Tuesday 9 October: Things are settling down, and the appetite suppression seems to have mostly kicked in again after a couple of weeks of no oil. Mostly, because yesterday I had the oddest cravings for chocolate. A Magnum after lunch, a teeny bar of cro...

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