Food is perhaps the most everyday of all shared experiences. There is a need for everyone to consider what impact their food choices may be having, even though we may feel that our individual actions
To rein in greenhouse gas emissions from farming, people in the UK must eat 30% less meat by 2030. One way to accelerate diet changes is to make plant-based options more prominent in restaurants and shops https://t.co/9sJkdQSsfm
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There are a great many resources linked to food which emerge all the time and many of them have been added here. This summer has seen a greater focus than previously on food prices, due to the squeeze on budgets due to the Government's mishandling of the energy price rises.
We have Brexit reducing the number of workers in industries such as agriculture, leading to crops rotting unpicked while the Government chases trade deals with countries like New Zealand (thousands of miles away, whereas the EU is less than an hour away) and negotiates terms which are unfavourable for British farmers...
The hot and dry weather due to climate change has placed pressure on water resources. Water companies have continued to pollute rivers and the sea while doing very little to improve or add to the infrastructure and storage capacity that is needed in a country where the driest parts of the country are the most heavily populated.
Here's an infographic that was in the i newspaper recently as well.
They regularly post images which have a food-related theme.
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