France has just adopted new rules on nutritional quality of food served in school canteens. I came across a video featuring agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire. You can watch it here, but here’s a synopsis for non-French speakers: France has a 3-point plan to guard against the degradation of nutritional standards and food culture in [...]
About Jess Halliday
Jess Halliday is aPurefood ESR at City University London Centre for Food Policy. Before moving to London Jess lived in a small village near Montpellier, France for 6 years, where she worked as a journalist on food industry publication FoodNavigator.com. She completed her MSc in Food Policy at City via distance learning in 2010. Jess trained as a journalist at London College of Printing and also has a BA (Hons) in Classics from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Jess spent her early career working as a TV researcher on travel and food programmes for the Discovery Channel. She loves hill walking and running, and creating in the kitchen.Government and industry to blame for hunger on the UK high street
There is a great piece in this weekend’s Observer newspaper about growing demand for food charity handouts in the UK. FareShare, the charity that channels the redistribution of surplus to the requirements of food supermarkets and manufacturers, reports a rise in recipients from 29,000 to 35,500 this year. It now channels otherwise unwanted food through [...]
Figs rule OK. And food sovereignty starts at home
Flowing robes, silly hats, and more fruit than one small village knows what to do with. At last Sunday’s Fête des Figues in Nézignan L’Evêque the fig was king and the villagers – all 1322 of us – turned out to watch the Fig-Eaters’ parade, then pigged out on fig bread, tarts and jam. I [...]
A place for food in pro-development planning?
The launch of the UK’s new draft National Planning Policy has food and environmental groups fearing for the future of the country’s green spaces and town centre, as the coalition government’s idea of ‘sustainable development’ has a strong pro-development flavour. The draft, available here, was launched last week and is open for consultation until October. [...]
How green is lab-grown meat?
Meat grown in laboratories could be a sustainable solution for people who want a greener diet but can’t face foregoing the flesh, according to reseachers at Oxford and Amsterdam Universities.
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