Frankenfoods – Chewing Over a Polarised Debate
Here’s a bit of end of year contemplation. In 2024 y organisation briefly considered – but rejected – a cheeky suggestion to bring back the provocative term ‘Frankenfoods’. The days of that kind of polemic may have passed but, as we note in our year-end reflection, the story of the Modern Prometheus still has something to teach us about foresight and accountability.
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Slow Food UK’s Person of the Year 2024
Really very touched by this award. At a time when government policy has lost its way, we must all speak up. Thanks to Slow Food UK for acknowledging the importance of speaking truth to power – even when it is hard – and defending our right to choose how our food is grown and produced.
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Time to ‘Rethink’ Agricultural Sustainability
A new report from A Bigger Conversation argues that the concept of sustainability has become distorted and compromised, and needs to be radically rethought. It explores how we can shift to a life-centric approach, linked to a core philosophy that sustainability must first and foremost sustain life.
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Agritech – Transition Pathway or a Trojan Horse?
A new report from A Bigger Conversation shows that while agroecological farmers, working in a values-based system, have an interest in technology that serves those values, they have little interest in technology that does not. Its findings emphasise the importance of a more critical and context-specific approach to technological innovation, which contrasts with ‘hard sell’ of Agriculture 4.0.
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