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News: Peers call for animal welfare standards to be protected

The latest report from the House of Lords committee looking at the impact of Brexit focuses on animal welfare standards, and warns against dilution of the standards in post-Brexit trade deals.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

News: Needed urgently: a new, improved trade policy

Responding to Theresa May's vision for Britain as a 'great, global trading nation', the Institute for Government has set out the steps needed for the Department for International Trade and across Whitehall to launch a successful UK trade policy, using the powers repatriated from Brussels.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

Blog: Fox, Gove, horsemeat and chlorine-dipped chicken: what a week!

Sustain's Chief Executive Kath Dalmeny reports on a meeting with Michael Gove, the opportunities this presents, and her sense that the time has come for Sustain and alliance members to step ever more confidently onto the national stage.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Thursday 27 July 2017

News: Government reduces its promised funding for health and well-being initiatives in schools

The end of the school term has been marked by the disappointing double-loss of promised Government funding for health and wellbeing initiatives in schools. The Healthy Pupils Capital Fund budget has been cut by £315 million - ie. a 3/4 reduction. And the Government has confirmed it will no longer be going ahead with the offer of free breakfasts to all primary school children, as it had originally promised in its General Election manifesto.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 27 July 2017

News: We are to get a new Agriculture Act - so let's have a look at the old one - the 1947 Agriculture Act

As the Queen's speech confirmed, we are to get a new Agriculture Act after we leave the EU and its Common Agriculture Policy, We had a quick rummage into the past to see what the last one said and it was rather interesting.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Thursday 27 July 2017

Blog: Better Food Britain: The legal milestones ahead

The UK’s departure from the European Union has profound implications for our food, farming and fishing. The Sustain alliance Campaign for a Better Food Britain seeks to ensure the best possible outcome for the UK’s food, farming and fishing industries, for citizens and the environment. Find out more about the Repeal, Trade, Agriculture and Fisheries Bills to come.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Thursday 27 July 2017

News: Liam Fox, don’t force US food standards on us

Food policy organisations have come together to object to Trade Secretary Liam Fox's dismissal of chlorinated chicken as a "detail". The groups work to improve public health, reduce farm antibiotics, control pesticides, promote children's nutrition, and to champion healthy and sustainable food policies.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Wednesday 26 July 2017

News: We did it!

Thanks to the help of generous donors, pledgers and everyone who helped spread the word, London Food Link has comfortably buzzed beyond its Electrify the 'Eel crowdfunding campaign target.
London Food Link | Tuesday 25 July 2017

News: Gove goes Green (we hope)

In his first major speech since becoming Defra Secretary, Michael Gove stakes his claim to be a defender of farming and the environment -- with strings attached.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Friday 21 July 2017

News: A huge shakeup for food rules

A new Food Standards Agency report describes how it is changing the way it regulates our food supply -- which may sound arcane and specialist, but will affect everything we eat. And some observers are already worried.
Sustain | Friday 21 July 2017