THE NOMINEES for the 2013 Footprint Awards – the industry’s only awards scheme encouraging sustainability and responsible business throughout the supply chain – have today been announced following a record number of entries. “Record number of entries demonstrate sustainability is at the [...]
PORK HAS been in the news quite a bit of late. Red Tractor’s CEO picks up the story, and explains why the assurance scheme has plenty still to offer. David Burrows (DB): Good afternoon. You’ve recently teamed up with Jimmy Doherty on [...]
LAST NIGHT Footprint attended the launch of a new campaign fronted by pig farmer and TV favourite Jimmy Doherty at Channel 4. Doherty has been recruited by BPEX to front a new campaign to promote Red Tractor pork in 2013, as the price of food linked to grain is expected to rise. [...]
THE SOIL Association has launched a new scheme to help caterers meet the standards in its Food for Life Catering Mark. The Food for Life Catering Mark provides assurance on health, animal welfare and environmental impact of food. Over 600,000 Catering Mark meals are [...]
FOODSERVICE BUSINESSES talk a good game when it comes to supporting British dairy farmers, but few are willing to divulge details of the price they are paying for milk. It takes a lot of bottle to stand up to the might of [...]
A SERIES OF adverts promoting British pork as high welfare have been banned for being misleading. The adverts, commissioned by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB), read: PORK NOT PORKIES RED TRACTOR PORK IS HIGH WELFARE PORK. Compassion in World Farming challenged [...]
WITH THE Olympics in full swing, Red Tractor Assured farmers almost two weeks in to their challenge of feeding around 23,900 athletes and team officials, 20,600 broadcasters and press and over 9 million visitors. Following LOCOG’s decision to make Red Tractor [...]
AGRICULTURE MINISTER Jim Paice has teamed up with a group of all female farmers to help launch this years Great British Beef Week (GBBW) at Westminster. Now in its second year, GBBW is organised by Ladies in Beef an organisation formed to help promote and [...]
FOODSERVICE OPERATORS are being urged to have their say in the future development of the LEAF Marque Global Standard. The environmental farming charity, LEAF, is embarking on a two phase consultation of its LEAF Marque Global Standard. LEAF Marque is a global food standard [...]
Revisiting the ethical mark debate
By footprint on March 5, 2012
Published in: Comment, Foodservice News, News Analysis, Zeitgeist and tagged Countryfile, Ethical Marks, Footprint Forum, Freedom Foods, Red Tractor, Soil Association.
THIS WEEKEND’S episode of Countryfile explored the ethical mark debate. Footprint Forum debated this very topic a year ago and we thought that some of you may find it interesting to revisit the discussions to see whether we have moved on? FOOTPRINT FORUM: PREPARING FOR CHANGE IN THE ETHICAL LANDSCAPE 7th of March 2011, British Film [...]