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Sustainable Eating – Make a Start

12/07/18 News

Sustainability is complex and challenging – but not impossible. Rather than let the complexity of eating sustainably overwhelm you it’s important to make a start where you can.

I have been involved in the writing and production of this simple booklet for the Greens/EFA in the European Parliament – whom I have had the pleasure of working with on other things.

This booklet is about the food we eat every day, and the impact it has on our health, our environment and our future.
Sustainable eating is becoming an urgent issue all over the world because the food we eat has a major impact on our climate, our fresh water supplies, on biodiversity, deforestation and fossil fuel use.

It also has a serious impact on human health. Our diets have become far too meat and protein heavy and too reliant on processed and snack foods. As a result, the risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and overweight and cancer is on the rise.

We can all help change things by making different food choices. So, if you are ready, here’s some ‘food for thought’ about making your fridge a force for change.

What’s in a Name? The Battle for Food Authenticity, Integrity and Sustainability

02/06/18 Articles

How we talk about food dictates how we perceive it, how we respond to it, buy it, cook and eat it, but increasingly also how we produce it. Most chefs and many others in food service hold the notion of ‘provenance’ as important. It’s regarded as near synonymous with notions of ‘truth’, ‘integrity’ and ‘honesty’. […]

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Something Fishy About Sustainable Fish, Chef?

12/04/18 Articles

As a nation, the UK is eating more fish than ever before. That is, potentially, a boon for health, but there are problems too. Much of our fish is being caught by destructive methods which are devastating populations of wild fish. What is more, our oceans are a mire of pollutants, many of which accumulate […]

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A New Human Organ…Hidden in Plain Sight

04/04/18 Articles

We inhabit these bodies of ours for seven or more decades. We drag them around – or they drag us around. We take care of them, or not. We think we know them; and even if we don’t, we think others – like doctors and scientists – know them. But the truth is that the […]

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