by Tasting the Future | Sep 27, 2022 | Agriculture, Agroecology, Pesticides
Exactly 60 years ago today, the environmental classic ‘Silent Spring’ was first published by Rachel Carson on September 27th, 1962. An author and American biologist, Carson was one of the first scientists to highlight the terrible damage we are doing to the planet...
by Tasting the Future | Sep 7, 2022 | Food Security, Food systems, Forgotten Crops
The global agrifood system is wasteful and damaging but there are steps we can take to tackle it Supply chain disruptions, a pandemic, extreme weather and now a war in Ukraine have exposed faultlines in the global food system that we ignore at our peril. The crisis...
by Tasting the Future | Sep 1, 2022 | citizenship, Community, Food systems
Food citizenship is a movement “which imagines and creates a different way that we can all meaningfully participate in a more just and resilient food system and food future”. This idea of a ‘citizen’, rather than a ‘consumer’ is championed by the Food Ethics Council,...
by Tasting the Future | Aug 18, 2022 | Case Study, Climate Change, Food Security, Food systems
2022 has witnessed unprecedented levels of heat in the UK, with two official heat waves declared in the months of July and August. Temperatures soared so high on July 19th that the UK’s hottest temperature record was broken not once, but twice – at 39.1C...
by Tasting the Future | Jul 6, 2022 | Food systems, health, One Health
It was Hippocrates, often cited as the father of medicine, who is credited with an aphorism equating food and medicine with the phrase ‘Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’. Our diet, health and lifestyles remain at the core of this quote about the...
