We need a revolution in food and farming. Only the Greens are offering that.
Image credit: David McDermott - Creative Commons That food, farming and land use have taken up almost no space in the mainstream general election debate in the United Kingdom is…
My first Veg Festival: far from radical but a celebration for change
Last month I attended my first ever Veg Fest in Cambridge. An event organised by Cambridge Sustainable Food, a new alliance of organisations, promoting healthy and environmentally sustainable food. The…
Environment-trashing “game” meat has no place in England’s food strategy
Image credit: Gary Noon, Creative Commons Sometimes you see media campaigns and policy stances so ill-conceived, so clearly counterproductive, that you have to wonder what the person who came up…
Beyond a Tin of Food: fighting food poverty with community action
A stall giving away free food set up by Exeter Food Fight, which has inspired South West Young Greens' 'Beyond a Tin of Food' campaign. Photo: Exeter Food Fight More…
Trust
By Mike Small There’s been a lot of talk about ‘re-establishing trust’ in the food system. But that’s probably the last thing we need to be doing. What we’re living…
Film: The horse meat scandal explained in 2 minutes
By Peter Lefort and Richard Roaf
Response: the IF campaign is no government cheerleader
Chris Hegarty is Senior Policy and Advocacy Advisor at Christian Aid Scotland, and Chair of the IF campaign in Scotland. Last week’s Bright Green Scotland blog about the IF campaign…
“IF…” campaign was agreed with Government a year in advance
Memos from within the UK Department for International Development, released under Freedom of Information (FoI) legislation, offer a glimpse of how the big aid charities' Enough Food For Everyone campaign…
Stopping bankers betting on hunger
On World Food Day, the World Development Movement's Miriam Ross says we are less than a month away from a major breakthrough on financial speculation on food - or another…
Greens must get better at communicating our support for science
The Green Party is more pro-science than any other party. Party policy commits 1% of GDP to public funding for science research. Whilst Labour, Lib Dems and Tories increasingly demand…