Hugh Thomas
@hughlthomas.bsky.social
- Food and farming journalist exploring food systems re-localisation (in Somerset)
- Frome Food Network co-ordinator
- Food writing/pitching mentor
https://www.thewfj.co.uk/
- Frome Food Network co-ordinator
- Food writing/pitching mentor
https://www.thewfj.co.uk/
Is it just me or is the remote prospect of a slightly premature death not particularly perturbing?
I think we need better incentives not to over-eat UPFs.
I think we need better incentives not to over-eat UPFs.
📰 Unhealthy food has hit the headlines this week.
🍕 Yesterday, an international study found that consuming large amounts of ultra-processed food (UPF) increases risk of early death – and that around 14% of premature deaths in England can be attributed to unhealthy food 👇
🍕 Yesterday, an international study found that consuming large amounts of ultra-processed food (UPF) increases risk of early death – and that around 14% of premature deaths in England can be attributed to unhealthy food 👇
Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds
About 14% of premature deaths in England attributable to unhealthy food, the most among surveyed countries
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Is it just me or is the remote prospect of a slightly premature death not particularly perturbing?
I think we need better incentives not to over-eat UPFs.
I think we need better incentives not to over-eat UPFs.
Any beer folk got a press contact for Harvey's?
April 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Any beer folk got a press contact for Harvey's?
Reposted by Hugh Thomas
Having your first beer of the weekend? While you do, our petition is about 440 short of being half way to a statement from the government. Give it a sign!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
April 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Having your first beer of the weekend? While you do, our petition is about 440 short of being half way to a statement from the government. Give it a sign!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Reposted by Hugh Thomas
I read something like 28 newsletters (not pro numbers, I'd concede), but Will's is my favourite one
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A new London Beer City is out tomorrow, featuring:
- The pubco taking over the capital’s bourgeois boozers
- London breweries and the four-day week
- Pubbing on New Year’s Eve
- Have London brewery numbers dropped below 100?
- and more. Sign up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...
- The pubco taking over the capital’s bourgeois boozers
- London breweries and the four-day week
- Pubbing on New Year’s Eve
- Have London brewery numbers dropped below 100?
- and more. Sign up here: www.willhawkes.net/london-beer-...
January 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I read something like 28 newsletters (not pro numbers, I'd concede), but Will's is my favourite one
Reposted by Hugh Thomas
Geo Somerset: A Journal of People and Environment in Somerset - Substack - First Article Availabe Free! okprojects.substack.com?r=271b7f&utm...
January 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Geo Somerset: A Journal of People and Environment in Somerset - Substack - First Article Availabe Free! okprojects.substack.com?r=271b7f&utm...
Even restaurants with an overt, farm-to-fork idyll can harbour toxic and abusive cultures within their kitchens.
www.thewfj.co.uk/p/modern-sla...
www.thewfj.co.uk/p/modern-sla...
"Pain, tears, humiliation" in a Somerset restaurant kitchen
Toxic work cultures exist in restaurants more than you probably think – even ones claiming to be ‘ethical’ and ‘sustainable’
www.thewfj.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Even restaurants with an overt, farm-to-fork idyll can harbour toxic and abusive cultures within their kitchens.
www.thewfj.co.uk/p/modern-sla...
www.thewfj.co.uk/p/modern-sla...
Seems like beer twitter has done a sterling job of migrating over this way. Farming twitter, much less so. Food twitter tbc.
December 11, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Seems like beer twitter has done a sterling job of migrating over this way. Farming twitter, much less so. Food twitter tbc.