Food Facts publications

The Food Miles Report - the dangers of long-distance food transport

Re-print of the original 1994 publication, with an updated foreword. Food is being transported longer and longer distances - food miles - from...

The taps are turning - Are we ending our love affair with bottled water?

This publication is a companion to Have you bottled it? How drinking tap water can help save you and the planet, that Sustain published in January...

Have you bottled it? How drinking tap water can help save you and the planet.

Despite bottled water costing around 500 times as much as tap water, analysts predict we will buy more than 2 billion litres this year. Are you going...

Like shooting fish in a barrel: What we can do to prevent the collapse of world fisheries

The report outlines the health pros and cons of eating fish, summarises the environmental damage caused by both industrial fishing and fish farming,...

Eating Oil: Food supply in a changing climate

Eating Oil takes a comprehensive look at how far our food travels and our dependency on imports and on fossil fuels to produce, process, package and...

Taking the Pith (Food Facts No. 12)

A glass of orange juice can use up 1000 glasses of irrigation water, 22 glasses of processing water and 2 glasses of diesel. We need plenty of fruit...

Fat of the Land (Food Facts No. 11)

With so many vegetable oils to choose from, it is important to know where each oil comes from, its impact on the environment, its nutritional...

Sweet and Sour (Food Facts No. 10)

Consumers in Europe pay inflated prices for their sugar whilst the excess production from Europe is dumped on the world market, depressing prices and...

Fowl Deeds (Food Facts No. 9)

A chicken meat industry in turmoil: high levels of bacterial contamination, poor welfare standards, poor hygiene standards, the continued use of...

Salad Days (Food Facts No. 8)

This highly publicised report into developments in lettuce production in recent years investigates the impact of changing farming and production...

Bitter Harvest, Bitter Beer (Food Facts No. 7)

This study of the impact of beer production and consumption on people and the environment looks at trends in hop and barley production, and the...

Carrot Fashion (Food Facts No. 6)

Carrots are Britain's second most popular vegetable after potatoes and almost all carrots bought are grown in the UK. This report looks at carrot...

Soya: The Ubiquitous Bean (Food Facts No. 5)

Soya and soya-derived products are used in around 60% of processed foods in the mainstream UK food industry and form the basis of many vegetarian...

The Pear Essentials (Food Facts No. 3)

Despite increasing consumer interest in eating more fresh fruit, over half of the nation's pear orchards have been destroyed in the last thirty...

How Green are our Apples? (Food Facts No. 4)

Despite increasing consumer interest in eating more fresh fruit, over half of the nation's apple orchards have been destroyed in the last thirty...

Where's the Beef? (Food Facts No. 1)

Increasing competition has intensified beef farming practices, while the BSE crisis and health concerns have caused a decline in beef sales. This...

The Perfect Pinta (Food Facts No. 2)

Milk is bought regularly by over 90 per cent of households. This report examines the way milk and other dairy products are produced and the impact...

Food Miles - Still on the Road to Ruin?

Five years on from the initial report into the impact of food miles, this update assesses how the debate has moved on. It includes: updated...

Water labels on food - Issues and recommendations

In many regions of the world, including parts of Europe, water scarcity will be one of the most pressing environmental, social and economic...

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