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  • School chef Christine McNamee

    School cook Christine McNamee talks about healthy eating

    Christine McNamee, cook in charge at St Paul's Primary School in Glenrothes, Fife, talks about the importance of healthy meals at school and at home.This blog is now closed.

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  • Asda store manager Billy Johnston

    Supermarket manager Billy Johnston on food

    Asda store manager Billy Johnston talks about how supermarkets can balance the demands of the consumer and producers in today's changing market.This blog is now closed to further comments.

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  • Farmer Gareth Baird

    Farmer Gareth Baird on local food production

    Kelso farmer Gareth Baird, Director of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, talks about the importance of local food production in Scotland.This blog is now closed to further comments.

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  • Nick Nairn

    Nick Nairn on food

    Celebrity chef, Landward presenter and cook school proprieter Nick Nairn has launched the first video blog on the national food discussion.Listen to what Nick has to say about food in Scotland, and submit your own comments below.This blog is now closed to further comments.

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  • raspberries

    Keeping it local

    Visit Scotland says: We need visitors that are aware of and demand produce local to the area they are visiting, tourism businesses focussed on meeting this need and suppliers geared up to supply this demand. Iniatives that help build links between Scotland's food producers and our tourism...

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  • garden fort in allotment

    Living off the Land

    Tom Gray says: More allotments for those urban dwellers who appreciate the health giving benefits in both the production and eating of fresh produce. More farms for those who wish to enjoy rural living, engage in food production and subsidise, from off farm income, the priceless lifestyle to be...

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  • children eating healthily

    Get them young

    Linda Brackenbury says: Schools should be looking back to practices of post war years, when good local produce was widely available, if not in quantity then at least in quality and used in school kitchens, children should be taught of where their food comes from and school cookery lessons should be...

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  • burger and chips

    Join the junk food debate

    Roddy Mungall says: We need to get smart about all this and rather than reaching a point where we tell people that this, that or the next thing is bad for us, it would be better to take a positive approach and take about a proportionate approach. By that I mean that we need to enable people to...

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