Articles involving: Diet & Health
30 May, 2025
SNP considers drastic reduction in livestock numbers, but no decision yet
Diet & Health, Farming, Food Security,
SNP First Minister John Swinney ignited a row at First Minister's Questions this week by refusing to rule out implementing the Climate Change Committee's recommendations that…
30 May, 2025
Call for less meat in schools throws the baby out with the bathwater
Diet & Health,
A new report by the Food Foundation, is calling for the UK government to revise its guidance requiring English schools to serve meat at least three…
23 May, 2025
AHDB loses a staunch champion of British food producers
Diet & Health, Recruitment,
We were sorry to hear this week that AHDB's CEO, Graham Wilkinson is to step down at the end of the year. He brought with him…
30 Apr, 2025
Scientists discover the downsides of adopting the Eat Lancet diet
Diet & Health, Emissions, Farming,
A new study on the impacts of the widespread adoption of the Eat Lancet diet, which would involve drastically reducing livestock and increasing agricultural production, has…
11 Apr, 2025
Eat-Lancet not keen on robust scientific challenge to their diet
Diet & Health,
The surge of activity challenging the first Eat-Lancet report back in 2019 might have been fierce, but it was certainly not without cause. The dietary recommendations…
20 Mar, 2025
New Study to Reassess Red Meat and Cancer Risk
Diet & Health,
A groundbreaking study aims to cut through decades of conflicting research on red and processed meat’s link to cancer. Researchers from Huaqiao University and Shandong University…
13 Mar, 2025
Flawed Nutri-score system should be a cautionary tale for policy makers
Diet & Health, Labelling,
"Food profiling systems represent a road map for consumers, for industry formulations and for policy makers. If the roadmap is not accurate, we will not be…
31 Jan, 2025
Oxford study recommends raising VAT on meat
Diet & Health, Regulation,
A new study from Oxford Martin School has modelled the change in consumer behaviour, along with the resulting environmental impact and health outcomes, of raising VAT…
22 Nov, 2024
Meat consumption averages don’t tell the whole story
Diet & Health,
A team of economists in America analysed tens of thousands of households’ grocery purchases from 2005 to 2020 to see how meat consumption had changed over…
22 Nov, 2024
New call to action on the role of red meat in society
Diet & Health, Emissions,
“Livestock systems must progress on the basis of the highest scientific standards. They are too precious to society to become the victim of simplification, reductionism or…
14 Nov, 2024
Growing consumer distrust of food companies to produce healthy food
Diet & Health,
A number of high-profile food, health and children’s advocacy groups have sent an open letter to the Government urging them to go “further and faster” to…
29 Oct, 2024
New 2 year project to update flawed NOVA classification
Diet & Health,
The issue of Ultra Processed Food is gaining much more prominence as people realise that simplistic differentiators, like meat versus plant-based for example, can't possibly account…
28 Oct, 2024
UK retailers sign up to WWF’s new ‘protein transition’ methodology
Diet & Health, Emissions,
To mark World Food Day, the World Wildlife Fund launched it's new "Planet-Based Diets Retailer Methodology" which is a step-by-stop framework for retailers to measure, report…
25 Oct, 2024
Peers issue damning report on government’s ‘utter failure’ to tackle our ‘broken food system’
Diet & Health,
A new report (Recipe for health: a plan to fix our broken food system) from the House of Lords Food, Diet and Obesity Committee has demanded…
25 Oct, 2024
New program promoting plant-based diet launched in UK schools
Diet & Health,
Grant-funded organisation ProVeg has just launched their new 'Canteen to Classroom' series of ready-to-use, evidence-based lesson plans for all primary school levels. The lessons include "discovering…