Good food needn't cost the earth

As consumers flock to farmers’ markets to celebrate British Food Fortnight, the Food Ethics Council has produced an ethical shopping list to help navigate some of the more difficult issues that buying food in Britain can raise.

The guide shows how decisions about where you shop and what you buy affect not only your health and your pocket, but your community and the environment as well.

Food shopping has wider implications too – where you shop can impact on the environment in terms of carbon emissions and waste. And how your food is produced plays a crucial role in determining animal and worker welfare – which have knock on effects for the health of society as a whole.

The shopping list is freely available to reproduce and is available on our website at www.foodethicscouncil.org

For more information please contact: Liz Barling on 01273 766 654/07867 525 951

Notes to editors:

1. The Food Ethics Council is the independent national advisory body whose aim is to create a food system that is sustainable and healthy for people and the environment, and where social justice and ecological sustainability are the norm, not the exception.

2. London Farmers’ Markets researched comparative costs of food at local farmers’ markets and supermarkets. http://www.lfm.org.uk/journalist.asp

3. Journalists wishing to produce an edited version of the Ethical Shopping guide should, in the first instance, contact Liz Barling at the Food Ethics Council.