Jess Sinclair Taylor

Director of Campaigns on Diets, Retail and Food Environments @Feedbackglobal Working for good food that doesn't trash the planet. Views mine, all mine.

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

Alongside permitting the use of dangerous neonicotinoid pesticides on sugar beet production in the UK, subsidising cane imports is a peculiar decision to use public policy to support harm to our health, and the planet. @feedbackorg @actiononsugar

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

A great shame that the new gov't has decided to subsidise the cane sugar industry (aka @tateandlyleplc ), instead of support public health, by renewing the tariff-free import quota on raw cane sugar. https://t.co/TWlxNEXGjb

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

The UK exceeds the maximum safe supply for public health by nearly 3 times, half of which is imported in the form of cane sugar, mainly from Brazil (very little comes form former UK colonies, which was the original reason for the subsidy) https://t.co/3rLQXenHOo

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

Darzi Review finds that despite success on smoking & alcohol, gov'ts have pulled their punches on diet-related ill health and regulating the food industry. @feedbackorg research indicates that UK sugar supply is nearly 3x maximum healthy limit for the population - supply matters.

[Lord Bethell @JimBethell]

Baffling from @wesstreeting ruling out sugar and salt taxes. The Darzi Review made plain the terrible state of our health, and the upstream causes including the obesity caused by our terrible food environment. 🍔
The public are supportive. This lack of ambition shows a failure to understand the scale of the challenge. Worrying. 😬

#HealthNation 🇬🇧

[Lord Bethell @JimBethell]

Baffling from @wesstreeting ruling out sugar and salt taxes. The Darzi Review made plain the terrible state of our health, and the upstream causes including the obesity caused by our terrible food environment. 🍔
The public are supportive. This lack of ambition shows a failure to understand the scale of the challenge. Worrying. 😬

#HealthNation 🇬🇧

[Foodrise @wearefoodrise]

🔥Our petition calling on @wagamama_uk to drop farmed salmon has now reached over 100k signatures!

Now that Wagamama’s customers have made it clear, it is a cynical choice to keep farmed salmon on the menu.

A huge thanks to @ChrisGPackham for your support✊

[Foodrise @wearefoodrise]

📝 We’ve coordinated a joint-letter signed by 100+ international orgs and experts, calling on the @FAO to urgently retract a report that contains serious errors which understate the emissions saving potential of shifts to lower-meat diets.

@GreenQueenHK https://t.co/I2VigJRFtW

[Foodrise @wearefoodrise]

📝 39 organisations and academics from across the world are calling on the Norwegian government to take action to regulate the country’s salmon farming industry and stop sourcing fish oil from West Africa.

Read now >> https://t.co/tjAWJSUDrz

A thread 🧵(1/5)

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

@BootsUK Having issues with your website - fine to order as guest but as soon as I sign in to use advantage card I get this message. Tried several times on different devices.

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

Govt/industry ‘sugar reduction programme’ saw a 7.1% increase in sugar sold across applicable categories… plenty of evidence that reformulation just moves sugar around the shopping basket without contributing to absolute reductions.

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

@BBCHughPym Suppy often not considered in these debates - but very difficult to address demand when total supply nearly 3x too high… no incentive for absolute reduction targets when sugar is cheap, plentiful bulking ingredient. https://t.co/Pc0Eyy8x1E

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

"Will we tackle problems at source, or do we accept the NHS becomes an expensive safety net?" asks ⁦@AmandaPritchard⁩ ⁦@feedbackorg⁩ research show UK sugar supply nearly x3 the population’s max daily allowance - so tackling supply is essential. https://t.co/EBLRhcRhid

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

"Will we tackle problems at source, or do we accept the NHS becomes an expensive safety net?" asks ⁦@AmandaPritchard⁩ ⁦@feedbackorg⁩ research show UK sugar supply nearly x3 the population’s max daily allowance - so tackling supply is essential. https://t.co/EBLRhcRhid

[Ailsa McLellan @AilsaMcL]

I hope @JohnSwinney will take into account the environmental damage this industry is wreaking, as detailed in the 2018 @scotgov REC + ECCLR enquiries, consider the moral issue of feeding African fish to farmed salmon, + prioritise ecosystem recovery over foreign multinationals.

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

Extremely odd for @DefraGovUK to approve this change from 'Scottish Farmed Salmon' (i.e. what it is) to just 'Scottish Salmon' (i.e. what the industry would like you to think it is) - at the same time as consulting on 'informative, consistent and accessible' food labelling...

[Ailsa McLellan @AilsaMcL]

'The amendment changes the PGI’s name from ‘Scottish farmed salmon’ to ‘Scottish salmon’, + was sought to better reflect consumer understanding that Atlantic salmon sold in the UK is farmed' @DefraGovUK This makes NO sense. Label it farmed for clarity! https://t.co/CePSWht1zZ

[Damian Carrington @dpcarrington]

Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, @feedbackorg report finds

- Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in production

Story by @KevanySophie
https://t.co/mXC5rdlewj

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

You might even surmise that despite their warm words about sustainability, they don’t much care about the health of the oceans, wild fish or the welfare of farmed salmon…

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

Disappointed that @wagamama_uk refused to send someone to meet us @feedbackorg @WildFishCons today to discuss a petition signed by 100k people asking them to drop farmed salmon from their menu, despite months of emails and letters.

[Foodrise @wearefoodrise]

🔥 We're calling on @wagamama_uk to drop farmed salmon from their menu. Join us!🔥

🐟 Farmed Salmon is cruel to people, animals, and the planet.

🧵Here's why (1/7)

@WildFishCons @Eko_Movement https://t.co/PmuwgsRtlK

[Jess Sinclair Taylor @JessicaSTaylor]

Beyond proud of my colleagues @Feedbackorg and our allies in Mauritania, Senegal and Norway, who's investigations and research have revealed the sheer scale of the NO salmon industry's dependence on wild fish - over 2 million tonnes a yr. Read here 👉 https://t.co/UnN8aGtFq7

[Sam Joiner @samjoiner]

NEW: Salmon sold by major supermarkets in Europe is harming food security in west Africa. This is how.

Visual investigation by @alexandraheal @upyorkshire @JALWilliams_ @inari_ta @Dan_Clark5 @jack__thompson @guypeterson_ and Ely Cheikh Mohamed Vadel.

https://t.co/IHwx9Zx61o

[Sam Joiner @samjoiner]

NEW: Salmon sold by major supermarkets in Europe is harming food security in west Africa. This is how.

Visual investigation by @alexandraheal @upyorkshire @JALWilliams_ @inari_ta @Dan_Clark5 @jack__thompson @guypeterson_ and Ely Cheikh Mohamed Vadel.

https://t.co/IHwx9Zx61o