Green Food Project

Getting change on the table…fast

PERSUADING PEOPLE to eat sustainably could take time that we don’t have. The government’s Green Food Project is tackling the big question of what to do right now.                 What will our food industry look like in 2050? It’s a fascinating debate and one that everyone has an opinion on. [...]

NEW ‘Honours’ Reward Healthy Best Practice Within Foodservice

First ever ‘Health & Vitality Honours’ launched – a brand new scheme specially created to establish a platform for foodservice businesses to showcase healthy best practice.                         Open for Submissions: 6th August 2012 Submission Deadline: 31st October 2012 Honours Lunch: 18th January 2013 (Venue [...]

Hard choice to swallow

  POLITICIANS FEAR the idea. Environmentalists love it. Consumers don’t understand it. And businesses are beginning to trial it. David Burrows investigates the controversial concept of sustainable diets.                       Obesity and diet-related illness are on the increase. Fewer young people are being taught how to [...]

Shrinking wallets producing expanding waistlines

WITH FOOD prices on the rise and the UK in tough economic times, consumers have turned to low cost, processed foods, according to a new study.                     Britain’s Changing Diet in Difficult Times, compiled by Waste Watch, shows how this changing diet is “seriously damaging” the [...]

Sodexo’s Tony Cooke on the challenges faced in the shift of dietary culture

FOLLOWING LAST weeks publication of the Government’s Green Food Project report, which has been tasked with making “the whole food chain as sustainable as possible”, Sodexo’s Tony Cooke talks candidly about the challenges faced by the foodservice industry in changing the culture of consumption.                         [...]

Government to tackle sustainable diets

THE FOODSERVICE sector has a “major role” to play in influencing consumer choice and shifting people to more sustainable, healthier diets.                   New government project also commits to debate on GM   That’s according to a new government study into the UK’s food system.   The report [...]