For a plant that can be grown almost anywhere, it’s amazing that over 66% of garlic consumed worldwide is actually grown in China (other figures suggest 80%!). That’s right, the garlic you’re buying in your local supermarket with a quaint family-farm sounding name on it has probably been shipped half-way around the world before being nicely packaged for your consumption.
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Cleaning products as bad as cigarettes
When we look back in twenty years time, we’ll see the use of cleaning products the same way we look back at the use of arsenic now. It never ceases to amaze me how chemicals, treated with gloves, body suits and breathing apparatus in factories are suddenly safe when they appear in food and the products we use. Nothing has […]
Age of plants pushed back 100m years
A new study published in the journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences‘ has suggested plants greened the earth more than 100 millions years earlier than currently thought making the age of plants really, really, old.
70pc of deep sea fish ingested plastics
A study carried out by marine scientists at NUI Galway found that 73 per cent of deep sea fish had ingested microplastics. The study was undertaken in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and the results published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.