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  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Can the appliance of alliance(s) produce a sound food strategy?

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Can the appliance of alliance(s) produce a sound food strategy?

    The start of December often marks a flash flood of fine reports relating to food. This week’s Digest therefore attempts to tie a number of threads together into a comprehensive 500 words or so. Here goes…Some 160 organisations provide the… Read More

  • ‘Protein’ is the power phrase to push plants

    ‘Protein’ is the power phrase to push plants

    New research reveals a ‘highly effective’ strategy to increase low-emission food consumption. And it is not a carbon label. David Burrows reports. Label lethargy. Interventions to reduce meat consumption, such as carbon labelling, have shown modest and inconsistent results. There… Read More

  • UPF papers expose health divide

    UPF papers expose health divide

    A powerful series of papers published in The Lancet have fuelled the debate over how the risk from ultra-processed food should be tackled. By Nick Hughes. “Our bar is the representative product for a system of feeding people that is really, really… Read More

  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: No green sheen in ‘make or break’ budget

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: No green sheen in ‘make or break’ budget

    The build-up seemed to last forever. Strategies were poured over by the media. The verbal sparring was fierce. And then the event itself was over in little more than the blink of an eye. But enough about the first Ashes… Read More

  • KFC hides stats on slower-growing birds  

    KFC hides stats on slower-growing birds  

    Progress on higher welfare chicken production has been painfully slow. So slow that companies are now keeping the figures secret. By David Burrows. KFC is a business that has been at the sharp end of NGO pressure relating to the… Read More

  • Are the SDGs still relevant?

    Are the SDGs still relevant?

    Food-related targets are set to be missed across the board, however sustainability leaders suggest raw data alone doesn’t tell the story of the goals’ value. By Nick Hughes. As another COP summit looks set (at the time of writing) to… Read More

  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Further delay for deforestation law

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Further delay for deforestation law

    This week’s Digest was written early. Whether it was to avoid desperately trying to uncover anything positive from the business end of the COP30 climate talks in Brazil, or so we could tune in live as the negotiations reached their… Read More

  • Minister hints at green light for food waste reporting

    Minister hints at green light for food waste reporting

    Hopes have been raised that long-promised requirements for large businesses to report on food waste will form part of the forthcoming circular economy strategy. By Nick Hughes. Could mandatory food waste reporting be back on the policy agenda? A year… Read More

  • Is single-use packaging seriously under threat?

    Is single-use packaging seriously under threat?

    New regulation, a plastic recycling crisis and retailers who firmly back reusable packaging could ignite the circular economy in Europe. David Burrows reports.  Are we finally able to see the road to reusable packaging at scale? That is the question… Read More

  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: How might foodservice report healthy sales?

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: How might foodservice report healthy sales?

    News that the UK Government plans to introduce a healthy food standard generated plenty of column inches when it broke over the summer. Announced in the 10 year health plan for England, the policy will require large food businesses to… Read More