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News: CETA's unhealthy impacts on food

A report from a European public health NGO spells out how the new EU-Canada trade treaty could open the door to unhealthy imports and fewer public powers to restrict them.
Sustain | Friday 9 December 2016

News: Food industry anxious over post-Brexit labour shortage

Food manufacturers, retailers and farmers have all been making the case for some form of special permits or protections for non-UK workers, if European free movement is suspended.
Sustain | Friday 9 December 2016

News: Birds, bees and global food production

A landmark report on pollinators from an international panel of experts provides unimpeachable evidence of the threat, but says that policymakers can take steps to halt the decline.
Sustain | Friday 9 December 2016

News: Still time to sign up for the 2017 Oxford Real Farming Conference

The annual New Year jamboree of sustainable food and farming is less than a month away, and the jam-packed programme is now online.
Sustain | Friday 9 December 2016

News: The five worst celebrity diets

The British Dietetic Association has revealed its much-anticipated annual list of celebrity diets to avoid in the New Year. The line-up this year includes Clean eating, Diet pills, Teatoxes, the 6:1 diet and Green juices.
Sustain | Friday 9 December 2016

News: Action alert on new application for GM field trial

Campaign group urges supporters to lodge objections to a new application for an open-air GM wheat trial.
Sustain | Friday 9 December 2016

News: Our response to new rules restricting junk food marketing on children's media

Children's Food Campaign responds to the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP)'s publication of new rules restricting the placement of junk food marketing to children in non-broadcast children's media.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 8 December 2016

News: Sustain's alternative advertising standards

Whilst the new advertising standards restricting junk food marketing to children, are good in sentiment, they are lacking in detail. Our Children's Food Campaign has put forward 10 points that would have filled this gap.
Children's Food Campaign | Thursday 8 December 2016

News: Post-truths behind the farm subsidy brexit debate

What’s up with farm incomes? New data shows total income for UK farming dropped 24% in 2014/5. With a farm sector already apprehensively anticipating Article 50 (triggering Brexit) and the major changes to food trade ahead, rethinking farm policy so that it is fit for purpose has to start now. To clarify things first, it may be worth re-examining some of the post-truth farm myths that were floating around in the referendum campaigns which may have swayed farmers and others in their vote:
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Thursday 8 December 2016

News: MPs debate the need to measure household food security in the UK

On 6 December 2016 MPs debated the issue of household food insecurity measurement in the UK, referencing the work of the Food Foundation and Sustain.
Sustain | Thursday 8 December 2016