Food & Drink

UAE eco-campaign to cut water-bottle waste

On March 22 2013 – World Water Day - Karena Albers and Jenifer Willig launched Whole World Water (WWW), a social media campaign to get hotels, resorts, spas and restaurants to filter, bottle and sell their own water.   In exchange for a fee, the company becomes a member of WWW; for hotels this is US$1,000 per [...]

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Monday, May 20th, 2013

List of Foods you should buy Organic

Organic vs. Non-Organic What foods should you buy organic? It seems like the organic section of the grocery store is expanding, but are organics worth the price? The group of foods that you should buy organically are called “The Dirty Dozen”; these foods still have pesticides even after they are washed.   The Dirty Dozen [...]

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Friday, May 10th, 2013

Organic US pizza chain eyes slice of UAE market

  US-based organic food chain Pizza Fusion is to open 15 outlets in the UAE over the coming decade as part of its strategy to open 40 restaurants in the region over the next five years. The Boca Raton, Florida-based company will launch its first restaurant in Dubai this summer and has the option to [...]

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Sunday, April 21st, 2013

UN warns of worldwide food crisis in 2013

  World grain reserves are so dangerously low that severe weather in the US or other food-exporting countries could trigger a hunger crisis next year.     Failing harvests in the US, Ukraine and other countries this year have eroded reserves to their lowest level since 1974. The US, which has experienced record heatwaves and [...]

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Friday, November 9th, 2012

Monsanto’s genetically modified corn linked to cancer by recent study

In a study published today in “Food and Chemical Toxicology,” a team of scientists say that rats fed Roundup-tolerant genetically modified corn (NK603) for two years developed cancers, tumors and multiple organ damage. The team of researchers, led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini from the University of Caen and backed by the France-based Committee of Independent [...]

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Thursday, September 20th, 2012