A packed meeting at the Biofach organic trade fair organised by Nic Lampkin of the Elm Farm Organic Research Centre heard about the experiences of Ireland and the Czech republic in running consumer campaigns aimed at promoting organic food and farming. The EU has now developed a tool kit containing 32 approved organic slogans plus [...]
From the monthly archives:
February 2009
The credit crunch is having all sorts of unexpected effects on the food industry. One of them is a resurgence of sales in two rather old-fashioned packaging formats, namely canned food (first manufactured in 1822) and frozen food (pioneered by Clarence Birdseye in 1922). I say ‘about time too’ as I have always been a [...]