The Thought For Food book from the 21st Century Dilemmas series by Honnao Publishing has gathered together a collection of essays from leading experts discussing food manufacture, animal welfare, allergy, food hygiene… and our relationship with food

Topics discussed include

• Factors affecting the development of food allergy
• Implementation of statutory school food standards, what the standards are and some of the potential challenges to implementation
• The current understanding of human food poisoning
• GM and other  technologies for food improvement: scientific and social implications
• Is organic food better for you?
• Eating the Emotion: How we use food to change our mood

Our experts include;

• Jo Smith, School Meals Development Officer, UK
• Denis Murphy,  Professor of Biotechnology at the University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
• Robert Boyle – Clinical Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Allergy at Imperial College, London, UK
• Machteld Huber, Louis Bolk Instituut, The Netherlands
• Christopher Gooding, Environmental Health Practitioner, UK
• Sampo Lahtinen, Danisco Health & Nutrition Center, Finland
• Ayse Banbridge, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, London, UK
• Sonia Di Gennaro, psychologist and counsellor, UK

Commissioning editor:  Dr Shara BA Cohen

We invite you to discuss the contents of the book here and on at our Network -ThoughtForFood.net.

We expect the book to be available early 2012