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Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming
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Sustain: The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity. We represent around 100 national public interest organisations working at international, national, regional and local level.
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Support our Parent Manifesto! The Children's Food Campaign and and parent ambassadors will be amplifying parents’ concerns on unhealthy food environments during our parliamentary drop in at the end of the month. Back our parent’s manifesto and help us showcase just how widespread support is for children's health! 👉 https://buff.ly/3WysKni
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📢 What's happening in the world of healthy, sustainable food in North East and North Cumbria? All 12 North East councils, Cumberland Council and food partnerships from the region celebrate first year of collaboration and benchmarking local action on healthy and sustainable food. As Hannah Crump, our Local Policy Coordinator says: "You can’t improve what you can’t measure!" Results of the benchmarking will be published next month - watch this space! https://buff.ly/3Y20ecZ Impact on Urban Health
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Great to be at the #OrganicTradeConference last week. Shout out to Hannah Gibbs who took part, and Kiloran O'leary, representing the Bridging the Gap project, which seeks to demonstrate ways to enable people on a low income to access climate and nature friendly food. ❗ Food that is good for people and the planet is currently more expensive than food that is bad for health and produced in ways that damage the planet. ❗ The Bridging the Gap project focuses on the supply and affordability of organic fruit and vegetables to people who experience low income in cities. Check it out >> https://lnkd.in/efXt4h2V
BIG DAY! I popped down to London today, to be part of the Soil Association trade conference - where i was asked to jump onto a panel to share what we've been up to at Mossgiel. The conference was a follow up to the association's "Organic for all" vision - a journey to understand how organic farming can be part of a wider, fair and sustainable future for our food system. Today, Organic food make up just 2.2% of UK food sales - trailing massively behind countries like Denmark (15%), Austria (12%) and Switzerland (11%) Organics is the only fully certified and recognised food production standard that is internationally known and legislated for - with actual science backing up increases in biodiversity and soil health. We know that's all important stuff, so why are the UK lagging so much? Personally, I believe that the UK - and in more particular Scotland has REALLY let itself down in investment in food processing which in turn, has hurt our opportunities to make organics (and even local) food accessible. Abbatoirs for example are widely known to have suffered from a lack of focus and now cannot meet demand where it's needed; and what our dairy industry did to creameries & small scale dairies that could today be 'churning' out world leading products is well documented in my own social media posts over the years. It's not all bad news though - Organic food sales are now outpacing growth of non-organics, and have been all year thanks to an incredible movement from stakeholders from Lands end to John O Groats. Major players are starting to recognise the benefits for people, planet & health that organics brings, and all of that wrapped up in a Mossgiel sized bun is the very reason my team and I have never given up on our vision to build a creamery right here on Mossgiel - because the power of organics isn't just about a fancy label for someone with plenty of disposable income; it's about a movement that rejects a broken food system, and invests in a future for us all...
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Everybody talks about ‘sustainability’ these days. But what does sustainability actually mean? New report by Sustain member Beyond GM dives in.
New Report: Time to ‘Rethink’ Agricultural Sustainability | Sustain
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Elements of the planning application for one of the UK’s largest industrial livestock facilities "unlawful" according to WWF-UK Great work from our climate campaign manager Ruth Westcott who has also been working on this 👇
https://lnkd.in/eJkTcfN2 The corporation behind this application - Cranswick - have been found to be hiding the truth about the impacts of factory farming. They are thwarting the informed, inclusive and democratic process that the public are entitled to. Well done WWF. WWF-UK Sarah Finch Feedback
Parts of megafarm plans ‘Unlawful’ according to WWF | Sustain
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❗ Shoppers are being misled. Write to your MP today to stop supermarket farmwashing. ❗ New Riverford Organic Farmers campaign reveals supermarkets are misleading shoppers with fake farm brands and driving Britain’s family farms to the brink. #FarmersAgainstFarmwashing
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Sustain are back again for their second Children’s Food Awards, where they will be rewarding the Yummy heroes fighting for all children's access to nutritious food. They’re also calling out the Yucky villains getting in the way of children's health. Now's your chance to get involved and place a nomination for those deserving of a Yummy or a Yucky award. We have 5 awards that are open to the public: • Yummy award for Best Political Leadership Championing Children’s Food • Yummy award for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Champion in Children's Food • Yucky award Recipe Most in Need of Change • Yucky award for Children’s Food Commercial villain • Yucky award for the Worst Example of Health-Washing This year Sustain are also pleased to partner with Bite Back , Soil Association 1stepsnutrition, Bremner & Co in other categories of the Children's Food Awards. These partners will be leading the nominations process for their awards. Nominations close 11:59pm Wednesday 6th November so get voting and please do share! https://buff.ly/4eK0EeN #childrensfood25 #healthyfood #childrenshealth #schoolfood #healthyadvertising #schoolmeals #junkfood #food #health
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The agricultural workforce is dwindling, so how can we support new entrants to flourish? Georgina Edwards, Sustain's Farming Campaign Officer reflects on the success of new network Emergent Generation, which brings together young people to build an agroecological food system and regenerative future. Food, Farming and Countryside Commission https://buff.ly/4gOfrqS
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✅Popular support for industry levies to help make food and drink healthier ✅Food industry leaders need a level playing field. 👉Read all 6 takeaways from party conferences for Recipe for Change campaign Diabetes UK The Food Foundation
Six Recipe for Change takeaways from party conferences | Sustain
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