That’s about the heart of the story here. More than £50m of World Food Programme aid to feed the starving has ended up in the hands of a London-listed commodities trader run by billionaires, despite a pledge by the United Nations agency to buy food from “very poor farmers”. Glencore International, which buys up supplies

MEPs voted by a wide margin today (2 February) to ditch a European Commission plan for giving food producers new choices to promote products as having less fat, sugar or salt. More »

Euro MPs block changes to food labels that would have allowed claims such as "now contains 15% less sugar".

MEPs voted by a wide margin today (2 February) to ditch a European Commission plan for giving food producers new choices to promote products as have less fat, sugar or salt. More »

This is the title of a poor quality piece in The Guardian. It's mainly a profile of Leanne Wood, apparently the favourite to take over the leadership of Plaid Cymru (who knew?). A "proud republican", she views Wales's economic development as typical of other colonial/extractive economies like those in Latin America. Her "Greenprint" for the south Wales valleys sets out a vision of "food ...

A proposal to give food manufacturers more flexibility to promote their products as low in fat, sugar or salt has been a dealt blow when a parliamentary committee voted to block changes to nutritional labels. The full European Parliament is expected to consider the issue tomorrow (2 February).  More »

This gets more bizarre the longer it goes on. Florida has a large population of elderly retired Jews, and Newt Gingrich is targeting them in his personal appearances by claiming that while he was governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed kosher food in state-supported old age homes, thus causing the detainees distress because of the disrespect to their religion. Sounds pretty nasty, doesn'...

The IRS sent my tax forms back! AGAIN! I guess it was because of my response to the question : "List all dependents?" I replied -"12 million illegal immigrants;"3 million crack heads; "42 million unemployable people on food stamps, "2 million people in over 243 prisons; "Half of Mexico ; and "535 fools in the U.S. House and Senate.” Apparently, this was NOT an acceptable answer. Cartoon sour...

It has long been said to be damaging to the self-confidence of women. But it appears that society's obsession with beauty and perfection is having a bad effect on food, too.

From vomiting and food abstention to mastication and ‘reducing salons’, a new book shows that weight-loss regimes have a long, weird and unhealthy history.