{"id":1564,"date":"2010-08-13T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2010-08-13T08:48:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T08:48:14","slug":"this-weeks-food-news-13th-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesramsden.com\/2010\/08\/13\/this-weeks-food-news-13th-august-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"This week’s food news | 13th August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Extra large Bic Mac meal and a statin, please” Icelandic fishermen overdoing the mackerel Rice yields under threat from global warming<\/strong><\/span> *****<\/p>\n Other food news this week: *****<\/p>\n Blog of the week *****<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a>This week doctors called for a free statin to be served with fast food. The cholestrol lowering drug will help offset the more egregious effects of eating these foods, ‘a function equivalent to a filter on a cigarette or a seat-belt in a car’. Whilst initially sceptical, it doesn’t seem like the worst idea in the world. Would you feel odd popping a pill with your MacDo?
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\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a>The EU is on ‘a collision course’ with Iceland over the fishing of mackerel, reports The Grocer<\/a>. Iceland has voiced its intention to catch three times as many mackerel as EU quotas stipulate, with the Faroe Islands also aiming to exceed guidelines. Mackerel is currently one of the more sustainable fish – it would be good to keep it that way.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a>Scientists have found that in parts of Asia rice yields have dropped by 10-20% as a result of warmer night-time temperatures. There was a clear correlation between daily minimum temperature increases and a drop in rice produced. Yet further cause for concern, as the BBC put it<\/a>, ‘that climate change will make it harder to feed the world’s growing population.’<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong><\/span>* Andrew Lansley is piling pressure on restaurants to display calorie counts<\/a> on menus.
\n* <\/strong><\/span>A Chinese takeaway meal could contain up to a wine glass of fat, according to a recent study<\/a>.
\n* The 8 food words rejected by the OED<\/a>.
\n* Marmite ‘costs more than a gallon of petrol’<\/a>.
\n* Pea plant grows inside man’s lung<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/span>* Fuchsia Dunlop’s forthright defence of Chinese food.<\/a><\/p>\n