Hard truths to swallow

Switching to the Euro: still hard to swallow.

Some Hard Truths About Agriculture and the Environment

Environmental problems in agriculture have proven difficult to address due to the spatial heterogeneity and temporal variability intrinsic to agriculture. Agriculture is largely a struggle against nature; both its sustainability and the prospects for improving environmental performance and farm income simultaneously are thus inherently limited. Agriculture’s high degree of variability makes dir...

Business approaches to quality improvement: why they are hard for the NHS to swallow.

Easy to chew, but hard to swallow – consumer perception of neutrally marinated meat

Background: Meat which has been injected or tumbled with water, salt, sugar and other ingredients, has been available on the Danish market for some decades and is now becoming increasingly common. However, it is not known whether this so-called neutrally marinated meat will be appropriated by consumers in the long term, or will be destined to be a marginal second rate product. Purpose: To explo...

A Hard Pill to Swallow: Prescribing Stimulants Within the Prison Setting.

In the film The Matrix, the character Neo is offered a choice between a red pill and a blue pill. Choosing the blue pill would allow him to continue his existence in the artificial reality of the Matrix, and therefore, he would continue living the blissful ignorance of illusion. The red pill would mandate a return to the real world and the painful truth of reality. It is apparent that in the mo...