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Part 6: Safety, assurance and integrity — ‘drug-foods’ that damage human and planetary health

Few consider the so-called ‘drug-foods’ in the context of food safety. I have done so here, because our over-consumption of them presents dangers to both human and planetary health.

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Food System Transformation #4: A new corporate order?

Here’s a thought experiment: What would a list of the world’s largest food and beverage companies look like if there were a ‘food system transformation’?

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National Food Strategy #15: Drug foods and their specific risks to the food supply system

The profits and prevalence of drug-food companies present specific and damaging risks to the UK food supply chain.

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Drugs & Rock & Roll?

This blogpost gives background info behind our latest video Drugs & Rock & Roll? about drug foods, what they are and a bit about their history.

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How the UK VAT system identifies vested interests costing us and the earth

Few realise the UK VAT system can precisely identify, at the point of sale, the major powerful global interests skewing our food system, costing us and the earth. Here’s how it does so:

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Coca-Cola ingredients: Caffeine

The name Coca-Cola comes from two psychoactive drugs in their early formulation, coca meaning cocaine and caffeine from the kola-nut. An earlier blogpost was about Coca-Cola’s relationship with cocaine. In this blogpost, we explore the ‘cola’ element of their...

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Coca-cola ingredients

The word ‘coca-cola’ comes from two of the ingredients in the original formulation — cocaine from the ‘coca’ leaf, and ‘cola’, caffeine from the kola nut. Today’s coke contains:

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Part 6: Safety, assurance and integrity — ‘drug-foods’ that damage human and planetary health

Food System Transformation #4: A new corporate order?

National Food Strategy #15: Drug foods and their specific risks to the food supply system

Be drug-food aware

Drugs & Rock & Roll?

Drugs & Rock & Roll?

How the UK VAT system identifies vested interests costing us and the earth

Coca-Cola ingredients: Caffeine

Coca-cola ingredients