How are the rising cost of living & increasing food prices affecting access to healthy, nutritious food?
We had this to say in our response to this question from the EFRA Commons Select Committee Call for Evidence on food security:
Read Imagine we consumed 70% less confectionery, crisps and fizzy drinks
The impact on our health, especially the long-terms benefits for our kids, would be massive.
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 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...
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 Criterion 1: Do their recommendations support all UK households to have economic access to sufficient supplies of safe, nutritious food?
Regarding the first of our five criteria in assessing the National Food Strategy: The answer to this question is no.
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.
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