Covid-19 commentary: Re-think food and farming on this week’s Farming Today
This week’s Farming Today was outstanding. And I’m not just saying that because Barbara Bray was the first speaker.
Read Food System Transformation #5: The scale needed for our five-a-day
Fruit and veg are high in the nutrients we need. So a diet that has lots of fresh fruit and vegetables is a healthy one. But what does this mean in terms of scale for, say, the UK population?
Read How the UK VAT system identifies vested interests costing us and the earth
Few realise the UK VAT system can precisely identify, at the point of sale, the major powerful global interests skewing our food system, costing us and the earth. Here’s how it does so:
Read Our response to the draft London Food Strategy
Our response to the draft London Food Strategy was submitted today, and can be found on our website here.
Read For every £1 spent on food & drink in Birmingham, it costs the city £0.90
Few realise just how much the dietary effects of the food and drink sector cost us here in Birmingham, as in every city across the UK.
Read Five levers on our food system
Birmingham spends some £3.4bn every year on food and drink, yet the cost of obesity to the city has been estimated to be £2.6bn, with a further £448M being spent here on dealing with alcohol related harm.
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