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  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Can we see through the weeds of that methane story?

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: Can we see through the weeds of that methane story?

    We start with a story about methane, cows and a feed additive beginning with B: a new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that feeding grazing beef cattle a red seaweed-based supplement (Brominata) in pellet form reduced their methane… Read More

  • The Friday Digest: Sustainability wilts in the heat

    The Friday Digest: Sustainability wilts in the heat

    It’s been a testing few weeks for sustainability professionals. The failure of COP29 (climate), COP16 (biodiversity) and INC-5 (plastics) to make meaningful progress in taming the assault on the planet from ‘business as usual’ politics and commerce, was enough to… Read More

  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: An egg and bacon sandwich

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: An egg and bacon sandwich

    Last week’s Digest was about chickens. This week it’s about eggs and it’s about bacon. And holding those together? Probably another bit of bacon if M&S has anything to do with it (wait for it…). First up, Compassion in World Farming’s Eggtrack report showing that… Read More

  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: COP, cash, chickens and chaos

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: COP, cash, chickens and chaos

    It is COP29 and Tuesday marked food, agriculture and water day, so “[…] perhaps it’s appropriate that the biggest deliberations feature a game of chicken”, wrote Bloomberg Green. This is of course the standoff about the expiring $100 billion annual climate finance commitment. The latest… Read More

  • The Friday Digest: Baku to reality

    The Friday Digest: Baku to reality

    As world leaders and their officials gather in Baku, Azerbaijan to engage in a fortnight of tense climate diplomacy, the real-world impact our food system is having on human health and the environment has been laid bare in a new… Read More

  • The Friday Digest: Solving the 3.2 billion single-use cup conundrum

    The Friday Digest: Solving the 3.2 billion single-use cup conundrum

    “We were at 6% recycling of cups and gaining momentum, but the pandemic took the wind out of our sails,” explains Hannah Osman, national cup recycling manager at Valpak. Amidst the climate crisis and dire state of the natural world, recycling… Read More

  • The Friday Digest: Business feels Budget blues

    The Friday Digest: Business feels Budget blues

    Budgets by their nature divide opinion. For every group that sees a financial benefit from the government’s annual book balancing exercise another must pick up the tab. Rarely has the divide been as starkly exposed as during Wednesday’s Budget –… Read More

  • FRIDAY DIGEST: Warm words won’t delay a Silent Spring

    FRIDAY DIGEST: Warm words won’t delay a Silent Spring

    The Digest usually pulls no punches in its regular coverage of food industry news, views and policy-making. But this week’s effort is punchy in another way, because we focus on the fight to save nature. This week the 16th meeting of the Conference… Read More

  • The Friday Digest: Glitz and jitters in the heart of the City

    The Friday Digest: Glitz and jitters in the heart of the City

    It’s fair to say Labour has not enjoyed the smoothest first 100 days in office since winning a massive majority in July’s general election – something we explored at length in this week’s Footprint Premium. That made Monday’s business investment summit in… Read More

  • THE FRIDAY DIGEST: A good week for fake meats; and a bad week for fake farms

    THE FRIDAY DIGEST: A good week for fake meats; and a bad week for fake farms

    “[T]here has never been such a new product on a product as iconic as the nugget,” said McDonald’s France chief marketing officer,” Jean-Guillaume Bertola this week as he announced the arrival of vegan nuggets to the menu at more than 1,500 outlets in… Read More