We look at the far reaching ways in which the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food works to ensure that our food is safe and wholesome
Nancy Maclean’s Democracy in Chains (2017) is an attempt to provide a narrative arc for the rise of free market ideas in political action during the second half of the twentieth…
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Nancy Maclean’s Democracy in Chains (2017) is an attempt to provide a narrative arc for the rise of free market ideas in political action during the second half of the twentieth century and into the first decades of the twenty-first century. The central character in her narrative is neither F.A. Hayek nor Milton Friedman, let alone Adam Smith or Ludwig von Mises, but James M. Buchanan, the 1986 Nobel Prize winner in economics. MacLean argues that rather than extol the virtues of the market economy as Hayek and Friedman did before him, Buchanan focused on the dysfunctions of politics. Due to a series of argumentative fallacies and failures that follow from her ideological blinders, I argue that MacLean’s attempt is a missed opportunity to seriously engage some very pressing issues in public choice and political economy and understand how James Buchanan attempted to resolve them in a democratic manner. As such, Democracy in Chains is not only a mischaracterization of Buchanan and his project but also a poignant lesson to us all about how ideological blinders can subvert even the sincerest effort to unearth truth in the social sciences and the humanities.
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‘The increasing public awareness of food safety issues has brought forth a torrent of pseudo‐science from publicity‐conscious activists in the media and elsewhere who are anxious…
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‘The increasing public awareness of food safety issues has brought forth a torrent of pseudo‐science from publicity‐conscious activists in the media and elsewhere who are anxious to foist a particular viewpoint on to the public. On no subject have we seen more of this than our proposal to allow consumers the choice of irradiated food.
The introduction of The Food Safety Act has generated more powerfor Trading Standards Officers and Environmental Health Officers, buthas also caused them to assess their roles and…
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The introduction of The Food Safety Act has generated more power for Trading Standards Officers and Environmental Health Officers, but has also caused them to assess their roles and responsibilities more precisely.
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QUORN. Since its introduction in 1985 an estimated 12 million Quorn meals have been sold. Today there are over 40 chilled and frozen recipe dishes available ranging from ethnic…
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QUORN. Since its introduction in 1985 an estimated 12 million Quorn meals have been sold. Today there are over 40 chilled and frozen recipe dishes available ranging from ethnic ready meals to pies and most recently a Quorn kiev has been launched by Tesco. Quorn was launched as an ingredient for home cooking in May 1990 in London and the south east of England.
Much is made these days of the need for consumer information on food packages, designed to help the consumer organize diets conducive to good health. The British Nutrition…
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Much is made these days of the need for consumer information on food packages, designed to help the consumer organize diets conducive to good health. The British Nutrition Foundation has always believed that such information may be of little value or may be positively harmful if consumers do not understand it or know how to use it. During a study undertaken to determine how best to teach young adults the basics of nutrition, we discovered that there was widespread ignorance, not only about nutrition but also about food production, manufacture and distribution — indeed about all matters relating to the provision of foodstuffs to consumers.
In 1988 a curriculum audit by the British Nutrition Foundation(BNF) identified which subjects included food and nutrition in theirsyllabus. A framework for teaching food and…
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In 1988 a curriculum audit by the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) identified which subjects included food and nutrition in their syllabus. A framework for teaching food and nutrition within the national curriculum was devised by the BNF. The BNF and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) launched the “Food – a fact of life” programme in 1989 and since then have developed resources for key stages 1 to 4. Discusses the place for food and nutrition teaching in the curriculum revised for England and Wales.