With the UK government creating hostilities with the EU, its hopes of switching to other food sources would take years to settle.
- Professor of Food Policy, City St George's, University of London
The government is focusing on the market to feed the UK but to avoid long-term risks and short-term emergencies a UK food plan is needed now
With people panic buying and supermarket shelves empty, the country’s ability to feed itself is being tested.
The UK’s food regulator, the FSA, is planning a major reorganisation. The timing couldn’t be worse.
A year of research reveals a total lack of a plan when it comes to how Brexit Britain is going to feed itself.
Over-consumption of food is bad for the planet and unhealthy for humans.
We only have enough food stocks to last 3-5 days, and Brexit has suddenly made things seem worryingly fragile.
The food on our tables is central to the #COP21 debate and any Paris agreement must help build a system that moves us a long way from our current habits.
Britain is more worried about being a food trader than building a system that properly feeds its people.
Political wrangling over food prices has a long history, and a difficult future. We have become used to ever-cheaper food, but a closer look at what’s happening shows that what we buy and how much we pay…
European food politics began 2013 with the horsemeat scandal, and it is ending with meat and horsemeat still high on the agenda. The publication of the interim findings from the review chaired by Professor…
The launch of the lab-bred “meat” in London was a masterly act of timing, theatre, and media management. But now that rabbit is out of the hat, there are questions that need to be asked, and answers that…
Foundation essay: This article on food waste by Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University London, is part of a series marking the launch of The Conversation in the UK. Our foundation essays…
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