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News: London's food creates more greenhouse gas than all London's households

A Greater London Authority report on greenhouse gas emissions finds that food consumption in the capital accounts for 19 million tonnes of greenhouse gases per year.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Thursday 5 February 2009

News: Out to Lunch league table reveals kids’ food is typically less healthy than adults’ at popular visitor attractions

A new league table ranking children’s food and drink at the UK’s top visitor attractions is published today (23 October) by Sustain member the Soil Association’s Out to Lunch campaign, which has uncovered unhealthy pre-packed lunchboxes, dodgy ingredients, and a lack of vegetables, as well as some good food at reasonable prices.
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 23 October 2018

News: 1000 for 1000: Win a grand for your food-growing project?

Apply to Capital Growth for in-kind support for your food-growing project by 6th May 2011 for a chance to win. One space who registers will be randomly selected to win £1000 and become the prestigious Capital Growth space number 1000.
London Food Link | Thursday 21 April 2011

Reports: A Children's Future Fund - How food duties could provide the money to protect children's health and the world they grow up in

The Children's Future Fund report points to the high levels of diet-related illness which is costing the NHS £6 billion every year and makes three recommendations for Budget 2013.
Children's Food Campaign | Tuesday 29 January 2013

News: A new presidential council of farmers, fishers and rural producers has been formed in Venezuela, to address nutrition, food scarcity, and rural production

The vice-minister of Popular Power of Food Production has been appointed to run the body.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

Reports: 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 dynamics of the brewing industry. Our choice of tipple may be less diverse than it appears.
Food Facts | Monday 30 June 2003

News: Food Standards Scotland want a better diet for Scotland

Food Standards Scotland have developed a raft of proposals, including a sugar tax, to address Scotland's poor diet.
Sustain | Friday 22 January 2016

News: Food manufacturing company Unilever has pledged funding support in the USA for technologies that would eliminate the culling of male chicks in the egg industry, by determining the sex of chicks before they hatch.

Since most commercial egg production uses specialist breeds deemed useless for meat and as the males won’t lay eggs, they are killed shortly after hatching, leading to the destruction of many millions of chicks every year. The company has been supported to tackle the issue by organisations including Compassion in World Farming, Farm Forward, The Humane League, and The Humane Society of the United States.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014

Article: Good Food Review: The Good Egg

We continue our series of reviews of eateries that go beyond ‘taste nice, looks good’. Kirsten Foster has a cracking time at this Sustainable Restaurant Association member and London Food Link supporter.
London Food Link | Thursday 7 June 2018

News: New coalition to scrutinise UK's approach to food standards: the 'Future British Standards Coalition’

Sustain will chair a coalition of farming groups, public health practitioners, caterers and food and animal welfare experts, among others, forming a new panel to scrutinise the UK’s approach to food standards.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Sunday 27 September 2020