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The plastic problem – lip service or honest intent?

June 8, 2018 Ethical, local and sustainable

It seems there isn’t a day goes by without plastic pollution being headline news. According to the Beeb, plastic has even become the children’s word of the year! That can only be good, but are we just swimming against the

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

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

Putting the Bah Hum-BUG into Christmas

December 18, 2015 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable

Every year it’s the same old thing in the run up to Christmas – pictures of happy smiling people bustling with bonhomie. Golden turkeys roasted and basted to perfection. Don’t you think it’s boring? Don’t you fancy something different for

The true cost of poor hospital food

July 9, 2014 Food>Ethical, local and sustainable

Why are UK Governments so fond of voluntary standards? Is it so they can claim they’ve told us so, before they wash their hands of the whole situation?