The excellent Chris van Tulleken gave evidence to the DHSC committee this morning, highlighting the way big food companies engineer harmful, addictive foods – and then aggresively market them to children and adults alike. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

🆕New blog: Farming needs a story that inspires Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

👩‍🌾In our new #FieldGuideForTheFuture, we talk to Harry Epsom and Frederik Lean Hansen about why they started Abunda – and what they think it can bring to the farming sector. Read it here: ffcc.co.uk/field-guide-...

Very much looking forward to reading this, thanks to recommendation of @timjackson.org.uk The post-truth world, that glorifies ignorance and moral relativism has been carefully cultivated for decades. Time to fight back.

Save the date! The LEAP conference will return on 22 April 2026. Come and join us at Worcester College in Oxford to discuss meat and dairy production and consumption. We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes. @oxmartinschool.bsky.social

Excellent piece from Rosa Silverman in @telegraphnews.bsky.social today on the huge cost of unhealthy food to people, communities and places across the UK – featuring our Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown. Read it here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

🗣️How can farmers get their voices heard better? 🚜Exmoor farmer Holly Purdey calls on her fellow farmers to get involved in consultations and workshops for better, more balanced outcomes – otherwise the most dominant voices can drown out the rest. Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

📣Calling all farmers, farm workers and people working across the industry Join us for a paid, interactive workshop at @realfarmed.bsky.social on Tues 25 Nov to discuss how farming and food can stay resilient in a changing world. 🎟️Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-uk-...

❓How can UK nations lead the way when it comes to fair, healthy and sustainable food and farming? Join FFCC's NI Director John Woods for panel “Wales the odd one out and why it matters” at the Wales Real Food and Farming Conference. 👉Get tickets now: wrffc.wales/cynhadledd-2...

🍔This week, @ashorguk.bsky.social, @aha-uk.bsky.social, & @oha-updates.bsky.social published a new report ‘Killer Tactics 2'. Read it here: obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2025/10/23/k... Find out how the report links to what citizens have told us in #TheFoodConversation: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

💧How can farmers manage slurry to support nature while sustaining productive land? 🎥Watch the full discussion here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🗣️How does language shape the world around us? 👀 Watch our full session at The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference – ‘Get real about growth: how better food, homes and communities can renew Britain’ - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...

Everyone knows how important food is. It’s critical to life and how we take care of each other. 🍓Hear more from citizens and read The Food Strategy here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy @fao.org #WorldFoodDay

🗣 Great to hear from Defra Minister @angelaeagle1.bsky.social and see so many politicians from across the house at the Farming APPG reception in Parliament this morning – organised by FFCC in our role as secretariat.

The excellent Sarah Langford at our panel at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference earlier this month, on why investment alone isn’t enough to create change that people and communities can feel. Follow this link to watch in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...

🤔 Is it really people’s “choice” to eat bad food? 🍫Here Food Strategy Citizen Advisory Council member Martin reflects on how big food companies engineer decisions about food through price, packaging and marketing...

TABLE is excited to welcome a new advisory board! We'll be sharing the new members one by one over the next two weeks. Next up, a warm welcome to @mhairikb.bsky.social, Head of Food Futures at the @ffc-commission.bsky.social. Learn more about Mhairi & our board here: buff.ly/w1FePFo

🌍Around the world, people are calling for fairer and healthier food - and citizens are showing how to make it happen. 👉 Read FFCC's Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown's new blog 'Food for a Fair Future': ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🍎 Last week, FFCC’s Head of Food Futures Mhairi Brown joined hundreds of people in Stockholm for the launch of EAT-Lancet 2.0 - a global conversation about fairer food for all. 📸 Swipe for a few moments from the event. @thelancet.com

🌿Today FFCC Wales Director Jon Parker joins the Ecosystems Knowledge Network's 'Leaders' Summit: Financing an Environment for Wales', bringing together senior leaders with a role in the stewardship of land, water and nature in Wales. Find out more here: ecosystemsknowledge.net/event/financ...

🗣️ “We have to put resilience into the business, and how do you do that? You have to put carbon into the soil.” Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🤔 What does a fair food system look like? And what should our leaders be looking to achieve when they make food policy? Find out here: ffcc.co.uk/news-and-pre...

🎙️ Out now: We Need To Talk About… Net Zero Listen to the episode in full: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

💡New blog: Unlocking Pride 🏡 Last week, the government announced its new Pride of Place strategy – putting communities in the driving seat and committing more than £5bn to 250 places across England, Wales & Scotland. 🥕 How does food fit into all of this? Read the blog 👉 ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

📝New blog: Rethinking Wales’ Food System 🔗Read the blog in full here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

💡 Some highlights from our two sessions at Labour Party Conference yesterday… 🏡 We kicked things off with a breakfast panel at the BB Partners Lab on how building the real economy – better food, homes and communities – can help people live more meaningful, prosperous lives.

📝 A new report shows the value of involving citizens in policymaking! It highlights real-life examples of how Food Ambassadors working with us and the @ffc-commission.bsky.social are making invaluable contributions to the government's new Food Strategy. Learn more: ➡️ tinyurl.com/2e6um2b9

📚 Out today: Laying the Foundation ⚖️ In a new report from the Citizen Advisory Council (CAC), a group of citizens from across the UK call for fairness to sit at the heart of the new Food Strategy. Read the news story + download the findings 👉 ffcc.co.uk/news-and-pre...

“Citizens want a government to take food seriously” - @suepritch.bsky.social, FFCC Chief Exec We’re at Labour Party Conference this week to bring citizen voices to debates around food, farming & land – and encourage govt to put food at the heart of national renewal. Here's where you can find us👇

“People are outraged when they find out just how much big food corporations spend on lobbying government.” Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation. Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🙄 When it comes to changing food, tired old stereotypes are holding back progress. 💯 Here Emmanuela, @foodfoundation.bsky.social Food Ambassador & Food Strategy Citizen Advisory Council member, sets out why the so-called demand for junk food actually comes down to price, marketing & availability.

Former food and farming minister Daniel Zeichner MP will be joining our session at the Labour Party Conference 2025. Find us Monday 29 September to discuss Labour's Food Strategy, alongside @foodfoundation.bsky.social and @ffc-commission.bsky.social

💡 How can @teamlabouruk.bsky.social's growth agenda bring change for people & communities? 🌹Our session at #LPC explores how rebuilding the real economy & harnessing devolution can generate tangible, public value – and help people live more prosperous, meaningful lives. Book 👉 invtdu.to/_73z3k

Good to see @libdems.org.uk tackling some important issues at their party conference these last few days – in particular, the need for politicians to better support, and invest in, farmers and rural communities for a fairer, healthier and more sustainable UK.

Citizens are challenging old assumptions about food 🚨 David, participant in #TheFoodConversation and member of the Citizen Advsisory Council for the Food Strategy, will be speaking at Labour Party Conference later this month, at our event with @foodfoundation.bsky.social & @sustainweb.org 👇

🍞🥦💷Britain has some of the cheapest food in the world – but farmers are losing out and people can’t afford to eat well. How have we got to this situation? 🔗Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🌿FFCC is at Abergavenny Food Festival this weekend. Join us for two key events on Wales's food future: 🎟️'Can Wales Lead The Way?': www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a... 🎟️BBC Food Programme: Cymru on the Future of Food: www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/event/bbc-ev...

Britain’s food is cheap, but farmers are squeezed & too many people can’t afford a healthy diet. In this @ffc-commission.bsky.social podcast by Will Evans, @timjackson.org.uk and Emily Norton discuss the true cost of cheap food + how to create a fairer, healthier system. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/food/...

#LPC25: Get real about growth Book your spot for the Labour Party Conference Panel Event here: invtdu.to/_73z3k

🌱How can we unlock the power of local food? 👉Join the webinar to find out more: www.sustainweb.org/events/power... 📖Read more about what citizens want: ffcc.co.uk/so-what-do-w...

🔔🚨 “The call for cheap food is a weapon of a dysfunctional system.” 🎧 Hear the full conversation at 👉https://ffcc.co.uk/conversations/we-need-to-talk-about-cheap-food

🌍 Our Chief Exec @suepritch.bsky.social, joined today’s Net Zero Council meeting.

🌾🎉What a day at Fields Good! The festival is back - bringing together farmers and wider food community to share ideas about a fairer farming future. ➡️ Find out more about Fields Good here: fieldsgood.co.uk 👉 Explore more about our work on food and farming: ffcc.co.uk

👩‍🌾🌾Citizens want farmers to be paid properly and treated fairly. ➡️Learn more from @sustainweb.org and @riverford.bsky.social: www.sustainweb.org/blogs/sep25-... 👉 View the Early Day Motion and signatories here: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

🥛If high quality meat and dairy products are only available to those on high incomes, are we risking what dairy farmer Ruth calls “a two-tier food system”? 👉 Click here to listen to the full episode: ffcc.co.uk/conversation... 🚜 Find out more: ffcc.co.uk/we-need-to-t...

With the ID debate back on the agenda, it’s worth a closer look at who is benefiting from undocumented work. The food delivery firms, the nail bars, the hand car wash outlets… Who makes money from those businesses; who is buying the cheap products? theconversation.com/im-always-de...

🍭⚡Encouraging to see Department of Health and Social Care and @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social moving to protect children from unhealthy energy drinks. 🔗Read the article here: www.bbc.com/news/article... 👉 Find out more about the Citizen Manifesto: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

‼️📣“People across this country care very much about is farmers and how much they’re paid… cheap food - it’s cheap on the shelves for a reason… who is not getting paid fairly?” ➡️Find out more about our work talking to citizens: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

“I’m not suggesting in the armed forces… There are many things that [young people] could do that would represent national service that would have benefit for them and benefit for the country” 🔊 Listen from 02.30.00: tinyurl.com/4z8vsyh6 🚨The Nature Service in Wales: natureservice.wales/how/

🗣️ “We all live on the same ground… there’s probably more we agree on than we disagree on.” 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...