A little while ago I wrote about the debasement of ordinary words and their exploitation for pure commercial advantage. Dominos Pizza leads the pack as it cynically pushes the ‘Dominos Artisan Pizza’ and presumably relies on no lesser authority than Lewis Carrol’s Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass: ‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said [...]
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What does it mean to be an ‘artisan’ food producer?
Posted by pundles on 10 May 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/05/10/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-artisan-food-producer/
Lochmuir doesn’t exist, does it matter?
The debasement of ordinary words that have no legal protection has been common enough. Much has been written about the abuse of ‘real’ ‘homemade’, ‘natural’, ‘local’ and ‘artisan’ being but a few examples. Only a few days ago Marion Nestle wrote in The Atlantic posing the question ‘Is ‘Natural’ the Most Meaningless Word on Your [...]
Posted by pundles on 14 March 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/03/14/lochmuir-doesnt-exist-does-it-matter/
ClientEarth’s Sustainable Seafood Coalition – get standard right before label
A few weeks back I wrote a piece posing the question: How do we know when fish is sustainable and responsibly sourced? I looked at two then both recent reports, one from the Pew Environment Group and the other from the Marine Conservation Society, apparently at odds with each other on the question whether Marks [...]
Posted by pundles on 30 January 2012
http://pauseforfood.com/2012/01/30/clientearths-sustainable-seafood-coalition-get-standard-right-before-label/
