Eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be on a ‘war footing’
In this blogpost, we put forward eight ways in which the UK food supply system could be put on a war footing,
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 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 Covid-19 commentary: Four lessons about the preparedness of the UK food supply system
As we emerge from the latest Covid lockdown, here are four lessons to learn about making the UK food supply system better prepared for future shocks.
Read Scale of supplies. Price rises. Why they are inevitable. What can BCC/BPH do?
In this short presentation to the Healthy Food City Forum, I made three points:
Read City-level decision-making & the food system: What questions to ask?
The impact of Covid-19 caught Birmingham’s food system on the hop. Few if any city leaders realised either the fragility of the supply system or their powerlessness in the face of the disruptions it caused to the people of...
Read It’s time to act against drug-food corporations for the health of the population and the planet
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) published our Rapid Response to an article by Tim Spector & Christopher Gardner’s
Read Cybernetics Society: UK preparedness for future food system shocks
This is an account of my talk on 12 September 2020 to the UK and American Cybernetics Societies on UK preparedness for future food system shocks:
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