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Food fraud: the dark side of ethical eating
Criminals have seen a chance to profit from the boom in sustainable food and businesses need to take the problem seriously, writes Nick Hughes. It’s an unfortunate paradox of the market economy that as a desirable market prospers a less…
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…
Footprint Forum: Animal welfare – we’ve come a long way baby
Three quarters of consumers rank animal welfare concerns as the top issue which makes a company ethical but is the foodservice industry doing enough to ensure animal welfare, and if so, are we communicating it to customers? The conclusion from…
Footprint Awards 2015: What the industry said….
What do you get when you put some chickens, an ex-rugby international and a dishwasher salesman on a podium together at an awards do? You get a tremendously funny, yet informative night, as the Footprint Awards 2015 showed. The sustainability…
Red Tractor’s CEO responds to Monbiot’s controversial views on farming this week
I AM really disappointed by the article in Footprint dated 3 June “Monbiot calls to end idealised fairytale view of farming”. Comments about the Red Tractor scheme…
Monbiot calls to end idealised fairytale view of farming – Red Tractor responds
THE CRUEL treatment of farm animals is perpetuated by an idealised view of farm life, George Monbiot has said this week. Red Tractor disagrees. The environmental campaigner…
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…
Countdown to Chip Week 2015
THE COUNTDOWN to Chip Week 2015 is now underway. The seven day chip-fest will run from 16-22 February and is the perfect platform to raise awareness of the quality chip dishes in the catering sector. …
Record-breaking British strawberry season
BRITISH STRAWBERRY farmers have enjoyed a bumper crop this year due to the warm autumn weather which has helped them to harvest fruit late into the season. So far this year 60,170…
