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Silent Spring 60 Years On: Pesticides, People and Planet

Silent Spring 60 Years On: Pesticides, People and Planet

by Tasting the Future | Mar 7, 2022 | Food systems, health, Pesticides

It was 60 years ago[1] that the environmental classic ‘Silent Spring’ was published by Rachel Carson, highlighting the terrible damage we are doing to the planet and giving birth to the modern-day environmental movement. Whilst DDT, the pesticide that was the focus of...
12 Sustainable Food Trends to Watch in 2022

12 Sustainable Food Trends to Watch in 2022

by Tasting the Future | Nov 15, 2021 | Food systems

2021 has been quite a seminal year for our food systems. The recent climate change summit (COP26), the UN Food System Summit (held in September) and the ongoing focus on the health impacts of our food (driving the triple burden of malnutrition – hunger (820 million),...
Putting food on the menu at COP26: 5 citizen actions to sustainable eating

Putting food on the menu at COP26: 5 citizen actions to sustainable eating

by Tasting the Future | Nov 5, 2021 | Climate Change, Food systems

Our food system – the way we grow, harvest, process, distribute, retail, consume and dispose of food matters plays a huge role in the climate change fight, as it currently accounts for a third of total greenhouse gas emissions. We know that without food systems...
A food system hooked on fossil fuels is bad for farmers and families

A food system hooked on fossil fuels is bad for farmers and families

by Tasting the Future | Sep 24, 2021 | Food systems

By Guest Blogger, Matt Williams, Climate and Land Programme Lead, Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. Food shortages a surprise result of gas price rises A recent rise in gas prices has caught some off guard, with Energy Minister Kwasi Kwarteng MP making a statement...
‘One Health’: An opportunity to reconfigure food systems for human, animal and planetary health

‘One Health’: An opportunity to reconfigure food systems for human, animal and planetary health

by Tasting the Future | Jul 6, 2021 | Food systems, Government Policy, One Health, planetary health

Alongside a human and ecological health crisis we confront an animal health crisis: Approximately 70 billion animals are farmed for food worldwide every year (60% of all mammals on Earth),[i] the majority of which are produced under intensive livestock production...
Rethinking Trade to Support Healthier Food Systems

Rethinking Trade to Support Healthier Food Systems

by Tasting the Future | May 24, 2021 | Food systems, health, Trade

The controversial tariff free Australia trade deal is the first of many trade deals that will be signed by the UK government over the next few years as it re-establishes trading links with many countries in a post Brexit world.  The UK is not self-sufficient in food...
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