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Food Justice: the report of the Food and Fairness Inquiry
Food Justice: the Report of the Food and Fairness Inquiry is published today. It is the result of a year-long investigation into social justice in food and farming, undertaken by a committee of respected and influential figures from across the food sector. They include Fairtrade Foundation CEO Harriet Lamb, Andrew Opie from the British Retail Consortium, Melanie Leech, Chief Executive of the Food and Drink Federation, Paul Whitehouse, Chair of the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, and Jeanette Longfield, who runs the campaign group Sustain
Digesting the election: the new politics of sustainable food
A report of the May 2010 meeting of the FEC’s Business Forum
Britain has new people in government and a new kind of politics. As in every sector, farming and food businesses wonder what this will mean, even as new ministers and civil servants grapple with that question themselves.
Ethics toolkit for food businesses launched
Food businesses throughout the supply chain face daily dilemmas about where their products come from, and who or what is affected by them.
The Food Ethics Council today launches a toolkit to help them get to grips with these issues, introduce key ideas in ethics, and provide a framework for decision-making.
Funded by the Naturesave Trust, ’Ethics: a toolkit for food businesses’ contains:
- A crash course in ethics and how it relates to business;
- An ethical decision-making tool;