Join us for the first conference on the right to food in London on Saturday 13 September 2025. Exciting range of speakers including Prof Peter Morgan, Kath Dalmeny, and Ian Byrne MP
Yes & basics of prevention - food & nutrition security been eroded by hollowing out of PHN system: privatised & charitised: https://worldnutritionjourn...Martin McKee: Has the United Kingdom government given up the fight to protect and promote health? - https://t.co/FacD1QfsNc
Our research published in World Nutrition found strong support for govt to reverse austerity-related decimation of the PH Nutrition system to address these inequalities. Read it here (click on pdf)... https://t.co/CWCUT1ZB17
(6) Eradicating food poverty requires more than hand-outs or food charity. It’s about diminishing inequalities to give all people dignity with food, not patronage and control. Bad sign Govt is ending £20 UC extra payments won by @MarcusRashford
TUC research found 1 in 5 keyworkers' children is living in poverty. Our article on PH Nutrition's capacity to feed those in-need during covid found a system in crisis, decimated by austerity measures. Click on the pdf under our logo to read it here.... https://t.co/CWCUT1ZB17
Thank you to all who contributed last year to our survey looking at public health nutrition's capacity to feed all in need in the first lockdown. World Nutrition have published our results! Read the full article by clicking on 'pdf' below our logo in this https://t.co/CWCUT1HZCx
Pre-covid the UK witnessed the 2nd worst stagnation in health improvement in Europe “That stagnation, social & regional health inequalities & the deterioration in health for the most deprived, are markers of a society that is not functioning" (Marmot, 2021)
The wait is over....
Our survey looking at the capacity of England's PH Nutrition system to feed people during the covid crisis is launched - online in World Nutrition
Download the full article by clicking on the 'pdf' link, under our logo using this link:
https://t.co/CWCUT1ZB17
Join this meeting on monday (29th march) with special guest speakers Dr Swaiman Singh in Delhi and Amardeep Singh Dhillon discussing the world's largest peaceful protest. It's hosted by Food Inequalities Rebellion - book your free tickets here
https://t.co/aE6AUTgNXS
”There is no possible agroecology without livestock, the animals are part of the cycle. It is a difficult debate in which small livestock farmers feel targeted, pointed at as the enemy; the real enemy is intensive industrial animal farming. “ https://t.co/2O41fxyRLN
(5) drift can be reversed by 12 immediate Actions @10DowningStreet to institute now. Bring forward @food_strategy now. e.g. Commit to reduce food banks and build sufficient costs for decent healthy sustainable diet into Universal Credit. Resilience Forums to include food. 7/8
(4) No wonder there's drift. There's a weak, warped advisory system on food. Ministers meet food industry (important) @Defra 'war room' but take little note of society except via its lens. We propose a food emergencies advisory group to be added to SAGE under @uksciencechief 6/8
Today @foodresearchuk releases Open Letter from @ProfTimLang Prof Erik Millstone @SPRU & Prof Terry Marsden @sustainablecu. Open Letter urges @10DowningStreet & UK Government to address continuing failures in UK food policy and to halt fd policy drift. https://t.co/EBSN8VE1p8 1/8