Should the UK food supply system be put on ‘war footing’? Yes, and here’s why.
Amol Rajan’s recent BBC podcast Rethink Climate: Pledges and progress is brilliant, if disturbing.
Read Our response to the Birmingham food system strategy consultation draft
In this, Our Response to the City Council’s Consultation Draft of their proposed food system strategy, we strongly recommended
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 Part 6: Safety, assurance and integrity — ‘drug-foods’ that damage human and planetary health
Few consider the so-called ‘drug-foods’ in the context of food safety. I have done so here, because our over-consumption of them presents dangers to both human and planetary health.
Read Criterion 3: What are their recommendations to curb the power of corporates who make and promote products that damage human and planetary health?
None of the recommendations made will curb the power of these corporates, the third of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy.
Read A nutrient famine has already arrived
Almost a third of children aged 5-10 year eat less than one portion of veg a day.
Read The perils of synthetic ‘food’ products and cheap carbs . . .
It’s concerning that a swathe of edible products are, in essence, synthetic; i.e. industrialised separation of plant and animal substances, plus undergoing chemical modification and often combined with inorganic chemicals, mostly from the petroleum industry.
Read How [not] to talk about [ultra-high] processed food
Bee Wilson took the Association of UK Dietitians (aka the BDA) to task last week on twitter about their ‘position statement’ on processed foods.
Read Food System Transformation #4: A new corporate order?
Here’s a thought experiment: What would a list of the world’s largest food and beverage companies look like if there were a ‘food system transformation’?
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