Food>Ethical Archives

£20,000,000 down the plughole each year!

March 11, 2019 Food>Ethical, Off at a Tangent

We’re definitely crying over spilt milk here at Nina & Co. £20 million’s worth of spilt milk, to be exact. That’s how much milk gets poured down the drain each year because it’s gone out of date. And that’s just

Exclusive – the year-round scandal of seasonal egg production

April 1, 2017 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable, Marketing, News

As you know, the Nina & Co. team are champions of ethical food production and animal welfare. Sadly, at seasonal times of the year, ethics and welfare often take second place to greed, sales and profit. This exclusive report by

Liar, liar … pants on fire!

March 3, 2017 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable, Marketing, News

I’m sorry about my juvenile tantrum, but this recent news has got me stamping my tinies. Perhaps some culture would help me redeem myself? Thanks to Sir Walter Scott for this one… “Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when

Winning the War on Waste?

June 21, 2016 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable, Marketing, News

If you’re a regular to the Nina & Co. blog, you’ll know how irked I get when it comes to the senseless waste of food. You’ll also know I’ve been ranting about it for years. That’s why I thought it

Micropubs – where small is beautiful…

June 7, 2016 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable|Leisure Hospitality, Marketing, News

Remember the days when a pub was a pub? Where you went for a quiet drink to unwind after a hard day. A place where you could meet your friends, or pop in knowing there would always be someone up

Leopards and supermarkets never change their spots

April 4, 2016 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable, Marketing, News

You know when you get that warm, fuzzy feeling inside? When the bad boys suddenly do something good for a change? Well, that happened to me just before Easter. I had almost forgiven Tesco for some of its past transgressions

British Pig Farms – RIP

February 24, 2016 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable

You know the phrase ‘use it or lose it’? It’s one that will soon be applied to the British Pork industry. Since 2002, half the UK’s dairy farms have gone out of business because it costs more to produce milk

Flooding and the environment – green zealots or plain common sense?

February 3, 2016 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable|Food>Organic

My heart goes out to the thousands of people who were left homeless by the recent flooding up north. There’s no good time to have your home destroyed, whether by floods or anything else, but for it to happen over