{"id":1544,"date":"2010-08-06T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T10:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2010-08-06T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T10:47:45","slug":"this-weeks-food-news-6th-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/08\/06\/this-weeks-food-news-6th-august-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s food news | 6th August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cloned cows cause chaos
\n<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a>This week’s big news was the whole cloned meat, cloned milk fiasco. It initially emerged<\/a> that there was milk from cloned cattle in the UK. Next it was cloned meat, as it was revealed<\/a> that meat from the offspring of cloned cattle had been noshed. Some are saying the meat is fine<\/a>, others think we’re all going to start mooing<\/a>. Would eating cloned cow bother you?<\/p>\n

Food prices set to soar
\n<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a>Animal feed prices, a shortage of silage, and poor harvests will, we are told<\/a>, lead to a 10% rise in food prices by next year. Hovis has warned<\/a> of a hike in the price of bread, as wheat prices climb after a Russian export ban<\/a>. Pork, rice, orange juice, coffee, cocoa and tea are also set to spike after ‘a variety of freakish weather conditions across the world’, reports the Independent.<\/p>\n

Rise in male infertility linked to food packaging
\n<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a>If your swimmers aren’t swimming, it might have something to do with what your food is coming in. BPA<\/a> is a chemical used to harden plastics for food packaging, though the worry is that this might be the only thing that it hardens. A study<\/a> has shown that men with high levels of BPA in their bodies had sperm counts that were 23% lower than those with less exposure to the compound.<\/p>\n

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Other food news this week:
\n<\/strong><\/span>* Swap wine for beer and save calories.<\/a>
\n* Chilli may lower blood pressure…<\/a>
\n* …so it’s a good thing that food is 400 times hotter today than 50 years ago<\/a>
\n* Junk food increases risk of allergies.<\/a> I’m sick of writing about junk food.<\/p>\n

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Blog of the week
\n<\/strong><\/span>Masterchef finalist Alex Rushmer<\/a> has a rather swanky new website – check it out.<\/p>\n

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Recipe of the week
\n<\/strong><\/span>Artichokes are bang in season right now – here’s a lovely way with them from Bitchin’ Camero.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Video of the week
\n<\/strong><\/span>This week’s supper club had a New Orleans theme, with photographs by Edu Hawkins<\/a> from the New Orleans Jazz Festival. Here’s BB King at his best:<\/p>\n