Tag: drug foods

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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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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...

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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

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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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Covid-19 commentary: 13 features of our pre-Covid food system . . .

Noticing and responding to the frailties and weaknesses of the pre-Covid UK food system as they’re being exposed through this crisis,

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Covid-19 commentary: Government food packages should not contain products that carry standard-rate VAT (aka drug foods)

We were approached by a serving officer from the Ministry of Defence a couple of days ago. His job is to coordinate food supplies to the ‘vulnerable’ across the West Midlands, part of the effort described in The Grocer article here.

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Covid-19 commentary: What decision-makers need to pay attention to asap

Amid all the turmoil and flux even at these early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, we strongly recommend decision-makers at a national and local level keep in mind these six important points about our food supplies:

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