This new audio book is a recording by professional speaker, Paul Griffiths and author, David Mason-Jones. The book is an updated version of the original hard copy of ‘Should meat be on the menu? … Carbon issues in our food: paddock to plate’ which was first published in 2010 and achieved sales of over 3500. […]
Preliminary figures for the single-day whale count at Tacking Point this year show that some 433 whales passed by on their way to the Great Barrier Reef. This compares with the appalling figure of just 19 whales for the full daylight hours of the day of the first count way back in 1999. It […]
I guess the basic reason why I wrote my book on the health of the Great Barrier Reef comes down to anger. I feel angry and exploited by the prevailing media message that all is doomed with the Great Barrier Reef. I consider the standard of science communication on the issue of the health of […]
Just as I was coming to the final stages of writing my book, ‘Will the Great Barrier Reef Survive?’ a very happy coincidence of timing took place. Justice S. Vasta, a Judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia delivered an important judgement which has an indirect impact on the right of Intellectual Freedom at […]
In the ongoing debate about whether or not carbohydrates – ‘carbs’ – make you fat, one bakery has inadvertently come down with a not-so-subtle affirmation that, ‘Yes, they do!’ The bakery has done this with its own advertising. If there’s such a thing as an ‘own goal’ in the bakery business, this bakery has surely kicked an own […]
This is the foreword which appears at the front of the book, ‘Why didn’t my Grandmother get fat? … and why did I?’. It is written by Vicki Poulter who is Co-founder and director Nourishing Australia, director Healthy Soils Australia, International Advisory Board member of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation and former Australian Coordinator and Sydney Chapter leader […]
How can cattle – or sheep or goats for that matter – add to the amount of carbon in the atmosphere when they get all their carbon from the atmosphere in the first place? In fact, the presence of carbon in the atmosphere – in the form of carbon dioxide – is so important that the […]
All my life I have learned by crazes. A craze is a sudden and inexplicable fixation on some subject, some topic of research, some historic event or some other area of enquiry. A ‘proper’ craze should have no immediate practical application to one’s life. It’s just a craze, pointless in one’s current circumstances. In my […]
A South Coast farmer has developed a simple way of bringing the benefits of natural omega 3 rich meat directly to consumers. The example of Warren Salway, of Sollys Bulk Meats, is featured in a newly published book, ‘Why didn’t my Grandmother get fat? … and why did I?’ by Australian journalist, David Mason-Jones. Omega 3 fatty acids are […]
