Footprint Forum
Footprint Forum Report: Holding out for a hero
IN EUROPE, genetically modified crops have remained in labs while the rest of the world plants more and more. Does the technology need a champion? It seemed apt that the Footprint Forum to discuss the sensitive issue of genetically modified (GM) crops took…
Retailers race ahead on green goals
RETAILERS have exceeded their environmental targets relating to waste, transport and energy, according to a new progress report. The report, “A Better Retailing Climate”, shows how the sector is performing across a range of impacts. In each case…
GM needs a crisis to be accepted
ONE OF America’s most senior experts on biotechnology has warned that Europe won’t accept genetically modified (GM) foods unless there is a food crisis. Addressing the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Food, Drink & Agriculture (CIM FDA) group last week,…
GM needs a hero
GENETICALLY MODIFIED foods have very little chance of being accepted in Europe unless celebrity chefs and retailers back them. With UK retailers having put expansive GM-free policies…
Prize display for champions of healthy living
ACCORDING TO dubious research cooked up for a marketing campaign a few years ago the third Monday of January deserves the title of “Blue Monday”. That’s when people are at their most miserable, thanks to a combination of post-Christmas blues, cold…
Foodservice industry calls for guidance on GM issues from opinion formers
THE GOOD and the great of the foodservice industry gathered yesterday for Footprint Forum hosted by the US Department of Agriculture, opened with great aplomb by Deputy Chief of Mission Barbara Stephenson at the US Embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square.…
Scientists consider new GM wheat trial
THE INTEREST around genetically modified (GM) crops is continuing to rise with reports that scientists at Rothamsted are mulling over a proposal to apply for permission to replicate its GM trial of wheat plants engineered to repel aphids. Farmers…
