Posts tagged 'ethical' - page 4
04 October 2009
A better way to help Afghanistan
Today, General Sir David Richards is quoted in The Sunday Telegraph as saying "Taliban and al-Qaeda know that the conflict will not be lost in Afghanistan, it will be lost in Britain, America and France, and their tactics are designed to get at that...
Read more13 September 2009
Turner's Rain, Steam, Speed - The Great Western Railway
Last weekend, we spent in London at The Speciality & Fine Food Fair 2009, where we had a stand displaying our wares to UK trade buyers. It was a good show, with numbers slightly down, but the quality was there; the froth has gone out of the mark...
Read more02 September 2009
New Spice Standards for Fairtrade
Fairtrade has issued new standards for Fairtrade spices which seem to be a recipe for chaos. They basically say that you can trade any spice or herb as Fairtrade and that the Fairtrade price is the price agreed between the buyer and the seller. A p...
Read more17 August 2009
Goethe and an afternoon walk at Harlow Carr
We went as a family to Harlow Carr Gardens on the outskirts of Harrogate this weekend. We go every so often to enjoy a quick walk in the gardens. It's pretty small and really quite genteel, which is just what you would expect for Harrogate. I pref...
Read more12 August 2009
Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits - my personal response to the Review Authors and the FSA
A couple of weeks back now in July 2009, the Food Standards Agency ("FSA") issued a press release together with the publication of a scientific review of the published science on investigations into the comparison of the nutritional composition and h...
Read more10 August 2009
Recipes for Peppermint Creams and Chocolate Strawberries
It’s been a weekend of baking and cooking for Jay’s birthday. He had some specific requests for things plus we needed to get the sausages and baps for the proper “hot dogs”, ie not with boil in the bag frankfurters but real sausages and decent bread...
Read more20 June 2009
Some of the books that have inspired us
Both of us (Sophie and Axel) are avid readers of books - both fiction and non fiction. This is the first in an ad hoc series of books that have made us sit up and think. We would be interested in hearing books that have influenced you and also your v...
Read more16 May 2009
Being fair and responsible
At Steenbergs Organic, we have been committed to being an ethical business since we started in 2003, becoming Fairtrade for tea in 2004 (both as a trader and as a licensee). It is really important to us that we strike a good balance between our busin...
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