by Tasting the Future | Mar 3, 2025 | Community
When was the last time you considered the journey and life cycle of the food product you are about to consume? Where was it grown? What were the names of the workers who picked it and processed it? And how did it end up on my plate in front of me? In modern Britain,...
by Tasting the Future | Jan 9, 2023 | Food systems
During 2022 we witnessed a series of unprecedented events and challenges that had a significant impact across the food and farming sector. The combined and interrelated economic crisis, energy crisis, cost of living crisis, extreme heat and other weather-related...
by Tasting the Future | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Despite the pledge by 141 countries at the COP26 to end deforestation, the destruction of tropical forests by unsustainable agricultural practices is continuing at a dramatic pace. The global food system is largely responsible for this deforestation, with major...
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 | 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...
