The horsemeat scandal in Europe has led many of the usual suspects to question the wisdom of cheap food and/or our ‘industrialised food system’. In reality, our food isn’t cheap enough and the food system isn’t industrialised enough.

Proposed legislation in California to label GM food assumes there is something scary and different about it.

A couple of interesting snippets on the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) website. The first is about the dangers, or not, of neonicotinoid pesticides.

More clear-cut is this rebuttal of an article in The Sunday Times, which seemed to suggest that cod in the North Sea would soon be a childhood memory.

Food activists claim that ‘local’ food is more sustainable, secure and nutritious. As Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu demonstrate in The Locavore’s Dilemma, local-food promoters couldn’t be more wrong.

A new study on the relationship between human body mass and environmental problems has got a lot of attention. But, ironically, it’s a pretty lightweight study.

It’s good that scientists working on GM foods are more prepared to stand up for their work, but progress in this area may be held back by the emphasis on precaution and sustainability that many researchers share with environmentalists.

A speech given by His Royal Hystericalness in Washington in 2011 has now been turned into a small book - which is getting oodles of praise from the kind of foodie eco-activists who share his fearful, anti-progress outlook.

Those who only eat forego importing food from around the world in favour of locally produced food won’t save the planet, become healthier, revive communities or improve food security.

Two researchers tell spiked that green activists have been a little too keen to blame pesticides for the not-so-great bee die-off.