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News: US livestock receive more than five times as many antibiotics as British livestock

New data shows that US livestock received on average 5.4 times more antibiotics per animal in 2018 than their UK counterparts. In particular, US cattle received 8 to 9 times more antibiotics per animal than British cattle, which is probably due to the much more intensive conditions in which most US cattle are raised and their worse health and welfare.
Save Our Antibiotics | Wednesday 27 May 2020

News: New initiative launched to help gardens grow food to donate

Capital Growth has launched Community Harvest to provide community food gardens the tools, materials and advice needed to grow more food for their local communities.
Capital Growth | Wednesday 27 May 2020

Page: Resources and materials

With many people spending more time at home we are compiling useful advice on growing your own food.
Capital Growth

Page: Parlimentary briefing: Food and the Covid-19 pandemic, May 2020

Our food system has been under incredible strain during the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions of people have struggled to access the healthy food they need. Consumers have been blamed for stockpiling but empty shelves exposed weaknesses in the supermarkets’ ‘just in time’ delivery chains. Fresh produce has failed to reach consumers causing waste; restaurants and local markets have closed; farmers have struggled to access supply chains and recruit the labour they need; many food businesses have collapsed; and smaller producers have been forced to source their own food at food banks.
Coronavirus Food Alert

Events: School caterers put their meals on wheels

A webinar organised by Sustain for local authorities, anyone in the school food catering or catering industry, and others interested in how to keep caterers afloat or to ensure older adults can receive nutritious meals during Covid-19 and beyond.
Sustain | Tuesday 26 May 2020

News: Fun vegetable characters join rainbows in windows across Leeds

A campaign to encourage families and young people to eat and grow more vegetables sets roots in lockdown.
Veg Cities | Tuesday 26 May 2020

News: Growing more food in lockdown in Cardiff

Working in collaboration with food emergency response networks, Food Cardiff and Edible Cardiff are encouraging residents to grow their own vegetables. A team of 70 volunteers across 16 projects distributed around 14,000 plants, seeds and growing kits to over 3,000 households and more than 100 people joined online growing classes.
Veg Cities | Tuesday 26 May 2020

Page: How can Local Authorities address food vulnerability during Covid-19?

This briefing captures our initial understandings of what constitutes a good local food response and aims to share good practice on what local authorities can and should be doing to ensure that everyone has access to the food they need. Recommendations are based on specific examples of good practice together with Sustain’s existing relevant recommendations set out in our annual Beyond the Food Bank report. We have covered important and common themes. However, this briefing is not comprehensive. If you know of other good practice to share, please do let us know.
Coronavirus Food Alert

Events: Return to School: Catering for Children in a Crisis

A webinar in collaboration by Food Foundation, School Food Matters, Chefs in Schools, with support from Sustain's Children's Food Campaign and Soil Association. All welcome and particularly school staff, caterers, local authority officers, community organisations and parents with children eligible for free school meals and preparing for their children.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 22 May 2020

Blog: 10 ways industry is flogging us junk food through lockdown

Junk food companies are coming up with innovative ways to sell junk food to us during lockdown, some of which might raise a few eyebrows. Fran Bernhardt explores these tactics.
Children's Food Campaign | Friday 22 May 2020