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News: Vegan anti-dairy advert allowed

An advert criticising dairy practices for being 'inhumane' has been approved by the Advertising Standards Authority, despite complaints from the dairy industry.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

News: Online tool maps food retail outlets across England

As concern rises over the ready availablity of high-calorie, high-fat fast food, especially in deprived areas, a new online tool allows councils and campaigners to find out the concentration of outlets by area.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

News: Scottish government launches pollinator strategy

Since 1980, the number of pollinating insects in Scotland - honey bees, bumble bees, the solitary bee, butterflies and hoverflies - has fallen by an estimated 51%. The decline, which threatens food crops and biodiversity, has rung alarm bells in Holyrood. This new strategy is the response.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

News: Punchy #SUGARSMART animation reveals impact of sugary drinks on young people

Healthy Norwich has produced an animation exposing the impacts of fizzy drinks on young people’s health and wellbeing to inspire teens to kick the habit.
Sugar Smart UK | Monday 31 July 2017

News: A brave new world for livestock

A report from the Eating Better alliance urges policy makers to seize the opportunity to forge a policy for British meat and dairy that would benefit humans, animals, the climate and the environment.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

News: Tell Keep Britain Tidy how you deal with food waste

Do you recycle your food waste or is it something you avoid? What would make it easier for you to recycle your food waste at home? What do you think of your council's food waste collection service? Share your views and help make changes.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

News: Who would be a farmer?

Apparently one in four British adults likes the idea of giving up the day job to work on a farm. But a new report from the rural charity the Prince's Countryside Fund highlights a chasm between between the positive perception and the tougher realities of the profession.
Sustain | Monday 31 July 2017

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

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