- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- An informal network of London restaurants and catering businesses that care about sustainability
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
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- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Reconnecting people and land through local food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- Inspired by the London 2012 Food Vision, the campaign for healthy and sustainable food in catering
- Challenging businesses and citizens to make London the world's first Sustainable Fish City
- Sustainable food news in London
- Demonstrating and promoting the benefits of urban agriculture
- 2,012 new food growing spaces by the end of 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- For bread made with natural ingredients
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Hospital patients served healthier food in Wales than in England - Good Food for Our Money campaign survey shows massive public support for introduction of legally-binding hospital food standards.
Secretary of State lampooned in Parliament over Government food standards - Shadow Food and Farming Minister Huw Irranca-Davies MP today challenged Caroline Spelman, Secretary of State for Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs, to 'stop clowning around with food standards' and 'catch up with Ronald McDonald'.
Contact
Contact Alex Jackson by email at alex@sustainweb.org or by telephone on 020 7837 1228.
End cage cruelty
Save 107,000 hens from cruelty every year by demanding that central government goes cage-free
Footage of a so-called 'enriched' cage (provided by Compassion In World Farming)
The Government has introduced new compulsory rules called ‘Government Buying Standards’ (GBS) that encourage public sector institutions to buy eggs from hens living in ‘enriched cages’. This means taxpayers’ money will be used to help prop up an archaic and cruel system of production which subjects hens to a life of misery.
Happy free-range hens (photo from Compassion In World Farming)
Government Buying Standards are compulsory for ‘central government’, including government departments and some parts of the armed forces. As a result, it is likely that each year up to
- £3.2 million of taxpayers’ money will be spent on eggs from caged hens
- 107,000 hens will be confined to a life in a cage
The decision to introduce compulsory rules that promote enriched cage eggs was taken by the Cabinet, including Ministers Jim Paice MP and Caroline Spelman MP who are supposed to be responsible for improving animal welfare in the UK.
Please send a message to Jim Paice MP, Caroline Spelman MP and their government colleagues to demand that ‘central government’ goes cage-free today.
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Hens living in enriched cages:
- are forced to live in an area about the size of an A4 piece of paper
- are restricted in many physical activities, including running, flying, and flapping their wings
- are not fully free to dust bathe, peck or lay eggs in a natural way
This standard of production is so bad that:
- it is being banned in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg
- MPs have banned them from meals served to them in the House of Commons
- Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, M&S, the Co-operative Group and McDonalds refuse to sell them and have now gone cage-free
- Government stats show that more 50% of eggs sold in UK are non-cage
- HENS that are forced to live a life of misery
- BRITISH FAMERS who are being encouraged to use a caged system which has no commercial future
- CONSUMERS who have done the right thing and shunned caged eggs in their droves
- RETAILERS who have banned caged eggs from their shelves
- THE TAXPAYER who is being forced to pay for caged eggs without their consent or knowledge
- WORKERS in government who will be eating eggs from caged hens
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