The Food Ethics Council challenges government, business and society to make wise choices that lead to better food and farming. Uniquely, we focus on how choices are made and we champion decisions that are:
- Principled – aiming to benefit people, animals and the planet, and to treat each fairly and with dignity.
- Informed – based on sound knowledge and diverse experience, but ready for surprises.
- Inclusive – involving and answerable to the people they affect.
We are a charity and we work as an independent think tank and advisory body. Our fifteen council members bring a broad range of expertise to our work, from academic research through to practical knowledge of farming, business and policy.
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Deadline Thursday 17 July 2008GM foods - the lessons learned
High food prices and concern over food insecurity are fanning the smouldering controversy over genetically modification (GM). The September edition of Food Ethics magazine will examine what a decade of wrangling over GM has taught us, and what those hard-learned lessons mean today.
July 3 2008Food security - what do you mean?
A surge in commodity prices has pushed 'food security' up the agenda in policy, business and public debate. Yet the term is used to promote everything from self-sufficiency to social justice. The May meeting of our Business Forum discussed what it means and what factors affect it.
June 11 2008Governments warned not to cash in on food crisis
As the UK and other governments meet in Rome for crisis talks on food prices, the latest edition of Food Ethics magazine urges governments to tackle the injustice at the heart of the crisis and not to use food concerns as a vehicle to push through other ambitions.
June 3 2008Flying food – responsible retail in the face of uncertainty
The Food Ethics Council has today launched its report on air freighted food, giving detailed guidelines on how supermarkets should respond to this increasingly high profile issue.
May 21 2008Ethics - a toolkit for food businesses
We have published a toolkit that introduces key ideas in ethics and provides a framework for making better decisions. Download it here.
April 28 2008Where next for ethical labelling?
Labelling and accreditation systems such as Fairtrade have played a central part in raising the profile of ethical issues in food and farming. Yet debate rages over their future role. Moves towards carbon footprinting and labels, and interest in treating water the same way, have made this a particularly urgent issue.
April 2 2008Water - the ethics of efficiency
The world uses 200,000,000 litres of water a second to grow its food – like gulping down the Amazon River day in, day out. By 2025 an estimated 1.8 billion people will be living without enough water to survive. We need to change how we use water, but is simply using less the answer? In the latest edition of Food Ethics we find out.
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