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Never any good news, is there.  A few years ago we were being urged to eat oily fish for the sake of our health .  Now someone has done the sums and given us 'recommended safe limits' - like alcohol - having discovered that its toxicity outweighs its benefits at as little as 2-4 portions a week.

GM foods are next on the menu:  
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The moratorium on genetically modified food, which has been in place for nearly six years, was lifted in May when the European commission approved a type of genetically modified sweetcorn.
The move allows fresh and tinned genetically modified sweetcorn to be imported into EU states for human consumption. Farmers are already allowed to use the sweetcorn in animal feed.


For some reason I find myself unable to care too much about GM foods since our foods are already messed about with so much, but maybe we should care?

At least chocolate is still OK - isn't it??
You can't even have a piece of sliced bread without the manufacturers screwing it up, in this case by adding too much salt. I've seen it recommended that we eat 6 slices of bread a day, but that loads us up with 3 grams of salt, about half the recommended daily intake.
As for chocolate, everyone knows that's loaded with saturated fat and sugar.
I quite fancy a breadmaking machine - I think you throw in the flour, yeast etc and three hours later a perfectly formed loaf pops out, warm, crusty and smelling delicious.

Mind you I already have a cupboard full of dusty once-used gadgets so maybe not?
Some friends of mine have one with a timer as they have economy seven electricity and bake their bread overnight. They have experimented with different types of flour, and their bread is very good.
Yes, we have a bread machine, it's excellent. We even use it here in France.

GM maize is the norm here, though in our area at least it's only grown for cattle feed. The reason for GMing it is to make it resistant to Roundup weedkiller, so that the fields can be sprayed from time to time and the maize won't be affected.

There is a debate going on at one of the France forums that started on hunting but has shifted to so-called healthy veggie diets. If some of the postings (which seem to be backed up by reasonable looking evidence) are to be believed then things like soya and tofu are far from healthy foods - they are actually very bad for you indeed. Much of what is sold in health food shops is made from GM crops and contains undesirable ingredients like aluminium, which can be responsible for Alzheimer's.

The chocolate you buy here bears little resemblance to that you get in GB. There is a minimum cocoa content, which is far higher than even the richest of the standard Cadbury offerings. You can buy bars of chocolate with something like 97% cocoa content, which is all but inedible. But you can rest assured that it doesn't contain a lot of fat, sugar etc. The everyday eating stuff is around 60-70% cocoa, i.e. about twice the UK norm.
Speaking as one who spent a fortune in Thornton's this morning   :D ..... how does the taste of the French stuff compare to English chocolate?  I am sure it is better actually, but I do love my Alpinis   :)

Hmm may consider the breadmaker - sounds really good - if I am not bankrupt after sorting the pc out  :(
Our chocolate is so unchocolately compared to EU chocolate that they were going to stop us using the name chocolate at one time, although it was agreed if we called it family chocolate it would be OK.

And that is a true story not an episode of Yes Minister.

My favourite Thorntons was the Rum Marzipan half circle shaped dark chocolate but it got discontinued once they realised I liked it.
how anything which contains <20% of the named ingredient can be called after the named ingredient escapes me..... :huh

Nearly all British chocolate bars are < 20% chocolate. Bournville is better at something like 35%. Green & Blacks is much better at 60% upwards (depends on the type)

I do not like milk tray at all and most other normal stuff is just an excuse for sugar and cocoa butter. :(

I have had some 80% chocolate once (Lindt) which was interesting. The aftertaste lasted for about 3 hours (that was 1 square of it mind you) :thumbs
Before complaining about Cadbury's you should really try US products by companies like Hershey. Now they are truly disgusting.
@Eccles you are so right about American Chocolate, it's the worst thing I have ever tasted.  How could anyone get something that is so good so wrong.

Incidentally, when I went to my local foreign goods importer for my quarterly supply of Cadbury's Flake  I was told that they've put a hold on importing chocolate from the UK due to terrorist threats?  Ugh!

Of all the viable targets they go for Cadbury's Flakes!

Anyone know anything about this?


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