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New mega-alliance calls on UK Gov to create a joined-up healthy food & sustainable farming plan

Can a collaborative approach from the UK's leading food and farming organisations drive policymakers to make better, braver choices as part of the National Food Strategy?

Activism Regenerative farming Environment and ethics Eating and drinking Health Diets

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Budget sees new surtax for supermarkets but will it spike ‘greedflation’ price hikes?

Could a higher rate of tax for big retailers help resurrect our independent retail sector, or will customers end up footing a bigger groceries bill?

Cost-of-living Supermarkets UK Gov

Features

Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum uncovers dire truths within UK food system

Less than 1 per cent of the UK population achieves all of the dietary recommendations in the Eatwell Guide. Nick Easen attends the Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum to find out what factors are at play and how we can push for change.

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The AGtivist: whistleblowers call out rapid intensification of meat & dairy industry

A scathing new report makes startling claims about the practices of the food industry – and it's written by those on the inside

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The AGtivist finds: “superbugs” in multiple UK meat supply chains

Ten years ago, the UK government warned that the use of antibiotics in livestock farming presented a critical threat to public health. What's changed since then? The AGtivist investigates.

Animal welfare Health Meat

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New mega-alliance calls on UK Gov to create a joined-up healthy food & sustainable farming plan

Activism Regenerative farming Environment and ethics Eating and drinking Health Diets

Features

Can population crops help us forge a more resilient farming future?

Agroecology Environment and ethics Farming

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The AGtivist finds: border biosecurity lacking as increasing volumes of illegally imported meat enter the UK

Animal welfare Health Meat

STORY OF THE WEEK

A few years ago we used to support the homeless, cancer-afflicted families and those escaping domestic violence. Today it’s people who are actually in work and the only elastic part of their outgoings is money spent on food. Charlotte Hill, The Felix Project & FareShare

Opinion

News from the farm: Finding wonder in the underworld

Agroecology Climate change Biodiversity Environment and ethics Guy Singh-Watson

The AGtivist

The AGtivist finds: Mercosur deal with EU fed by ‘cattle factories’ & deforestation

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Farming

Opinion

News from the farm: Artisans, luddites, and hybrids

Guy Singh-Watson News from the farm

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Budget sees new surtax for supermarkets but will it spike ‘greedflation’ price hikes?

Cost-of-living Supermarkets UK Gov

WL Meets

WL Meets: Charlotte Hill on the fight against food poverty

Cost-of-living Activism Community

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Radical reform of supermarket practices urgently needed, say farmers

Activism Supermarkets Farming

Features

The Borderline Challenge: raising awareness of mental health in farming

Farming Mental health

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The AGtivist: food crime data fuels fears over “dirty meat”

Animal welfare Environment and ethics Meat

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