What the government can do to minimise risks to food supplies
In meeting the dietary needs of the 68.6m (and growing) population of the UK, a post-Johnson government needs to take into account the increasing risks to our food supplies.
Read What should the aim of a Government food strategy be?
The Government so-called ‘food strategy’ published on 13th June doesn’t have an aim. The aim of a national food strategy should confirm the Government’s commitment to ensure all UK citizens have access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food....
Read What does the Government’s food strategy set out to do?
In this blogpost about the Government White Paper, we analyse what it sets out to do. In so doing, we’ve also identified what it doesn’t cover.
Read A preliminary analysis of the Government food strategy
Our first take on the Government food strategy is here.
Read The Government food strategy: What’s its purpose? Its aim?
Every strategy needs an overall aim, a purpose. What’s it all for? This Government ‘food strategy’ (their lower case) doesn’t have an aim, or purpose.
Read It’s time to think about food supply strategies in a post-Johnson world
Will food security issues rise up the agenda of a post-Johnson Government?
Read Preparedness for future food shortages: Economic & other factors
These two sets of economic factors are true of any resource shortages, as we’re seeing in the energy supply sector as well as with food supplies: A shortage of any resource can be met by ramping up production (if...
Read Are there any plans about further food shortages and scarcities in the UK? Nope . . .
No-one appears to be working on possible responses to further food shortages and scarcities.
Read How this Brexit is putting our food supplies at risk
This Brexit poses grave threats to our food supplies. And we can catalogue them:
Read VAT: A precise mechanism to identify drug food companies in the Journal of Public Health
We’re pleased that our article VAT: A precise mechanism to identify drug food companies appears in the March 2022 issue of the Journal of Public Health. It begins with this important statement: “It’s time to curb the activities of...
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