The Scottish diet is famous for being the worst in Europe, write Pete Ritchie and Miriam Ross. Yet the country has rich land and sea resources, and exports large quantities of high quality food. By treating food as a common good instead of leaving the market to provide, Scots can start to transform their food future.
… Scotland: time for a National Food Service? Pete Ritchie Miriam Ross | 15th October 2014 Comment Food Farming Health UK Scotland … and exports large quantities of high quality food. By treating food as a common good …
Everyone loves family farming! And so they should, writes Holly Creighton-Hird, as family farms produce most of the world's food. But the UK Government has a funny way of showing it - favouring corporate agriculture and eliminating farm payments for small land holdings. It's up to us, the public, to support small, high welfare producers.
… as family farms produce most of the world's food. But the UK Government has a funny way of … Family farming is a hot topic this year. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the … week, family farming was the focus of World Food Day 2014. Of course there's is no …
It was a bad year for the biotech barons. At a conference in January 1999, the consulting firm Arthur Andersen revealed Monsanto executives’ vision of an ideal future – a world in which natural seeds were virtually all extinct and where commercial seeds were genetically modified (GM) and patented.
… The battle to keep GM food off your plate Jeffrey Smith | 1st … Gm Products Campaigns Gm Products UK US Food And Farming Politics And Economics … safety assessment protocol for testing GM foods. In the course of his studies under the …
Thanks to pro-GMO politicans and lobbying by powerful agribusiness interests the UK and other EU countries may soon find supermarket shelves flooded with GM foods, both imported and home grown, writes Linda Kaucher. We must press parliamentary candidates now to defend us from this serious and long-term debasement of our food and farming.
… TTIP could soon bring GM foods to UK supermarket shelves Linda Kaucher | 2nd April 2015 News Food Farming GMOs Trade Regulation UK EU … soon find supermarket shelves flooded with GM foods, both imported and home grown, writes …
The way food is produced has a profound impact on its nutritional profile, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Not only is organic farming better for animal welfare, the environment and wildlife, writes Peter Melchett, but organic meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables all have tangible health benefits for the people who eat them.
… Organic food is well worth paying for - for your … Soil Association | 4th March 2016 News Food Farming Regulation Organic UK Health organic-boxes-cut.jpg The way food is produced has a profound impact on its …
The growth of food banks reflects a simple truth: the government does not care about hungry families, writes Rupert Read. To tackle hunger, work must pay a living wage, social security must do its job, and communities must rebuild local food networks.
… Food banks - a radical plan Rupert Read | 5th May 2014 Comment Food UK Society Politics … trussell-vauxhall-cut.jpg The growth of food banks reflects a simple truth: the … its job, and communities must rebuild local food networks. I've just co-authored a report …
Increasing quantities of 'hidden GMOs' are finding their way into our diet, writes Pat Thomas. They are coming mainly in US imports for supermarkets and caterers, and in animal feeds used for meat, dairy and egg production. It's time for chefs, pubs, takeaways and restaurants to take responsibility for the food chains that supply them - labelling the GMOs in their meals, and better still, cutting them out.
… Hidden GMOs in our daily food? Let's get UK chefs talking, and doing! … Pat Thomas | 31st March 2017 Activism GMOs Food Farming UK USA pub-meal-cut.jpg … restaurants to take responsibility for the food chains that supply them - labelling the …
No matter how concerned we are about the quality of food we and our families eat, we can be sure governments are putting corporate profit first, writes Sally Beare. But we - Mums in particular - still have our power as consumers to push supermarkets and other retailers into going GM-free and keeping toxic agrochemicals out of the food chain. Let's use it!
… to keep GMOs and deadly herbicides out of food Sally Beare | 21st January 2016 Activism … how concerned we are about the quality of food we and our families eat, we can be sure … and keeping toxic agrochemicals out of the food chain. Let's use it! We are a group of …
The Soil Association doesn't need to 'get back to its roots', writes Helen Browning - because it never left them! It remains firmly committed to its founders' original organic mission for health, environment and animal welfare. And that means reaching out to a broader public, ensuring that organic principles are ever more widely understood and applied.
… Soil Association | 2nd December 2014 Activism Food Farming Organic UK … 1940s the Soil Association has campaigned for food and farming systems that support the … back then. We want to see a future where good food, organic food, is accessible to everyone …
Every Hallowe'en the UK throws away enough pumpkin to make 360 million portions of pumpkin pie, soup, or cake, writes Gavin Ellis - a shocking waste in these hungry times. Hence a bold new initiative to rescue all those pumpkins from landfill, and turn them into delicious food we can all enjoy as part of our seasonal festivities.
… Ellis | 31st October 2014 Ethical Living Food Waste UK pumpkins-andrea-vergani-cut.jpg … from landfill, and turn them into delicious food we can all enjoy as part of our seasonal … to inform people about the amount of edible food that gets sent to landfill. New research …
Good food is an essential ingredient at Schumacher College, writes Julia Ponsonby, made with love using fresh, wholesome ingredients many of which have traveled no further than the vegetable garden. No less important, the sense of companionship, learning, fun and frequent hilarity that permeates the building - and the kitchen in particular.
… Ponsonby | 30th August 2014 Ethical Living Food Education UK feast-cut.jpg Good food is an essential ingredient at Schumacher … course at the College it is my job as Head of Food to introduce the new batch of students to …
Scotland's small-scale farmers have welcomed their government's decision to prevent the growing of GM crops, aimed at enhancing the country's 'clean, green status', among a coalition of green NGOs.
… The Ecologist | 10th August 2015 News Farming Food UK Scotland GMOs EU … gambling with the future of our £14 billion food and drink sector." The Scottish … the technology. As stakeholders in Scotland's food system, we recognise the importance of …
Coca-Cola is the latest company to join the agricultural 'scramble for Africa', writes Miriam Ross. Backed by £600 million of British aid under the guise of 'food security' and 'nutrition', a vast give-away of Africa's land is under way that will condemn small farmers to landlessness and poverty.
… Miriam Ross | 22nd September 2014 Comment Food Farming Corporations Africa UK … million of British aid under the guise of 'food security' and 'nutrition', a vast … meet to discuss the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Its name belies …
New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the interests of public health
… Advertising McD UK Packaging Processed Foods Food And Farming Health Politics And Economics … New Labour’s close ties to the fast-food industry are working against the …
Britain's dairy farmers have been having a hard time, writes Vicki Hird, largely thanks to their exposure to an unregulated, unstable, global food market. But if the EU's TTIP 'trade deal' with the US is ever signed, pitting UK dairy farmers against zero-welfare US mega-dairies run on hormones and antibiotics, they won't have a chance.
… tanker Vicki Hird | 20th August 2015 Activism Food Farming Trade UK EU … exposure to an unregulated, unstable, global food market. But if the EU's TTIP 'trade deal' … to be weak. Fragile or empty promises from a food industry structurally incapable of …
Michael Gove's agriculture bill ignores the problems local farmers face in producing healthy and sustainable food, argues NATALIE BENNETT
… Farming for food: Gove’s agriculture bill entirely misses … face in producing healthy and sustainable food, argues NATALIE BENNETT The meeting on … common ground on views of the future of our food supplies. The aim was to talk philosophy …
With most of our food exports going to the EU, and most of our food imports coming from the EU, Molly Scott Cato wondered what plans the government had for the sector after Brexit. The answer? None! Two reports published today map out a positive future of sustainable farming, local food, thriving rural economies and abundant biodiversity. But is the government on the same page?
… UK EU radical-roots-cut.jpg With most of our food exports going to the EU, and most of our food imports coming from the EU, Molly Scott … positive future of sustainable farming, local food, thriving rural economies and abundant …
From banks that are too big to fail, to food banks for the too small to matter, the global econom systematically pumps money from the social economy and the poor up into the hands of a tiny minority of wealthy beneficiaries, writes Colin Tudge. Farmers, trapped between mountains of debt and low food prices, are among the main victims. It's time for a big rethink, starting from first principles.
… From banks to food banks: money, inequality and the price of food Colin Tudge | 26th February 2016 Comment Finance Food Farming UK Politics euro-cut.jpg From …
Seeds are essential to our food and our entire lives, writes Rowan Phillimore. So join in celebrating and sharing them at a series of events this month in London, Bristol, Devon, Oxford, Lancaster, Herts - and begin the fightback against corporate domination of seeds and oppressive government regulation.
… Phillimore | 3rd October 2014 Ethical Living Food Farming UK Corporations Regulation … Howard via Flickr. Seeds are essential to our food and our entire lives, writes Rowan … and oppressive government regulation. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) …
Europe is likely to become ''the museum of world farming'' because of the failure to embrace GMOs, UK environment secretary Owen Paterson said today. Fiona Harvey reports ...
… Harvey The Guardian | 7th January 2014 News Food Farming Badger Cull Gm Food GMOs UK paterson-popcorn.png Europe is … If it is licensed, it would be the first GM food crop authorised for planting by the EU in …
An elite group of aid donors and agribusiness corporations met in London this week to plan the takeover of Africa's seeds, writes Ian Fitzpatrick, replacing traditional seed breeding and saving by small farmers with a corporate model of privatized, 'improved', patented, genetically uniform and hybrid seeds in a profit-driven market.
… Oliver Tickell | 26th March 2015 News Africa Food Farming Corporations Seeds USA UK … and Delivery of Early Generation Seed of Food Crops in Sub-Saharan Africa. ' To give it … almost every sphere of human activity - from food production to health and education - …