Event Reports
Their lives in foodservice’s hands: foodservice must take action to raise standards, concludes Footprint Forum on animal welfare
Customers want it, but government will take too long to set standards, so foodservice must take action and use its clout to make higher animal welfare the norm. Amy Fetzer reports The key takeaway form Tuesday’s Footprint Forum: The Future…
Food Poverty and Food Redistribution makes for lively debate at Footprint Forum
Yesterday members of Footprint Forum gathered at Fruit Towers, kindly hosted by innocent drinks, to discuss the part foodservice can play in the solution to food poverty and food redistribution. As ever the Forum was a platform for lively debate,…
Five things we’ve learned about… food fraud
Footprint’s pre-Christmas forum Food Authenticity in Foodservice: Risk and Regulation showed the industry has some catching up to do if it wants to stay one step ahead of criminals working in the supply chain. Here are five take-away messages from…
Footprint Forum Report: Action-stations on obesity
Think of it like your in-laws: it’s flawed, but the Childhood Obesity Strategy is what we’ve got, and it’s time for foodservice to start getting on with it. Amy Fetzer reports on the latest Footprint Forum. It’s time to focus…
Water: you need to worry
Water stress and shortages are already impacting foodservice, from smoothies and sugar cane to chocolate bars and bottling plants. Amy Fetzer reports on a Footprint Forum designed to wring out solutions. Sitting inside Innocent’s London head office on a wet…
Get on your marks
Foodservice needs to start demanding more from ethical certification schemes – and it might even be time for a cull, according to speakers at the last Footprint Forum. By Amy Fetzer. It’s not all rosy in the relationship between ethical…
Tough decisions on ethical meat
Would you customers still eat your food if they knew where it came from? If not, you’re at risk. Amy Fetzer reports from November’s forum on animal welfare. Three-quarters of consumers rank animal welfare concerns as the top issue which makes…
Cut the clutter
Catering firms are faced with myriad eco-labels. But are they an essential part of communicating their ethics? Ask a student what factors determine the food they buy and price will invariably come top – and who can blame them, with…
Footprint Forum Report: Cut the clutter
CATERING FIRMS are faced with myriad eco-labels. But are they an essential part of communicating their ethics? Ask a student what factors determine the food they buy and price will invariably…
Footprint Forum Report: City living is under threat
CLIMATE CHANGE poses a real risk to the world’s growing urban populations, according to experts gathered at Footprint Forum. The sight recently of athletes running the Beijing marathon wearing gasmasks…