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The Food Ethics Council is a charity that provides independent advice on the ethics of food and farming. Our aim is to create a food system that is fair and healthy for people and the environment.
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Winner of BBC Food and Farming Derek Cooper award
The Food Ethics Council is delighted to have won the Derek Cooper award at the annual BBC Food and Farming awards ceremony. The award, named after the first BBC Food Programme presenter, is given to the individual or organisation that has done most to increase our knowledge and understanding of good food and the vital role it plays in our lives.
The Food and Fairness Inquiry: share your views
The Food Ethics Council wants a fair future for food and farming. It has commissioned an Inquiry to understand what this means in practice for government, businesses and the British public. The Inquiry needs your views and evidence.
Run by the Food Ethics Council, the Inquiry committee brings together leading figures from across the food sector including Fairtrade Foundation CEO Harriet Lamb, Andrew Opie from the British Retail Consortium, Paul Whitehouse, chair of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, and Jeanette Longfield who runs the campaign group Sustain.
Livestock consumption and climate change
A new report from the Food Ethics Council, commissioned by WWF, provides a framework to help producers, policy-makers and environmental groups break out of a stalemate over the role that changing meat and dairy consumption should play in mitigating climate change.
It is in the public interest to engage producers in a dialogue with government over this controversial issue because it will result in better policy. It is in the interests of producers too, because they would otherwise be left on the margins of this increasingly prominent agenda.