Food Ethics magazine
Our quarterly magazine seeks to challenge accepted opinion and spark constructive debate about key issues and developments in food and farming.
"Cutting-edge analysis that prompts real debate." Zac Goldsmith, Director of The Ecologist
"...a welcome forum for a debate we urgently need to have." Professor Peter Singer, author of Eating
"Provocative and practical... packed with critical insight." Joanna Blythman, author of Shopped and Bad food Britain
If you want to keep abreast of the latest debates and support our work for better food and farming, subscribe now to our new quarterly magazine. It features news and analysis from people actively involved in producing food and shaping policy.
By following the links below you can access the full first issue of the magazine (formerly called the Bulletin of the Food Ethics Council) plus the covers and contents pages of subsequent issues. From the Spring '07 issue onwards, sample articles are also freely available. Single printed copies are available at £10 each plus postage.
Subscribers can log in on the right of this page, using your username and password, to access the full magazine on-line.
What's coming up?
Has fish had its chips?
Investigating the ethical issues around fishing and aquaculture. More details to follow...
Previous editions
Food Ethics - Winter '08: The eating out guide: catering for ethics?
Eating out is one of the trends most profoundly affecting the food system, yet most of us know little about the industry that wields such an influence on our lives. The Winter '08 edition of Food Ethics is an eating out guide with a difference.
December 1 2008Food Ethics - Autumn '08: GM foods - the wrong debate?
GM is back, thanks to the food crisis, prompting election debates in Australia, royal foreboding in Britain and argument over aubergines in India. The latest edition of Food Ethics magazine lays the foundation for constructive dialogue that moves on from stagnant arguments for or against genetic modification.
September 1 2008Food Ethics - Summer '08: The 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 2 2008Food Ethics - Spring '08: Water
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 need water, but is simply using less the answer? In the latest edition of Food Ethics we find out.
March 4 2008Food Ethics - Winter '07: Meat
In this edition of Food Ethics, the industry and its critics grapple with the dilemmas facing our meat habit. Contributors include Temple Grandin, Richard Lowe, Nicholas Saphir, Colin Tudge, Joyce D'Silva, Tara Garnett and many more.
December 5 2007Food Ethics - Autumn '07: EU farm policy
Brussels is bracing itself for more wrangling over the Common Agricultural Policy. Should we scrap the CAP? What reforms should we want? Confused? Let the latest edition of our magazine be your guide: contributions from commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, Hilary Benn, Jack Thurston, David Baldock, Don Curry, Barbara Young, Jonathon Porritt, Hannes Lorenzen, Michael Jack and many more.
September 1 2007Food Ethics - Summer '07: big retail
Supermarkets want to go green, fair and healthy. Can they? The latest edition of our magazine examines the structural challenges facing supermarkets, with contributions from Bill Vorley, Andrew Fearne, Kath Dalmeny, Carlo Petrini, Lucy Siegle, Alan Knight, Sue Dibb, Colin Tudge and many others.
June 1 2007Food Ethics - Spring '07: working for food
This issue of our magazine looks at the suffering and success stories behind the dinner on our plates, with contributions from Felicity Lawrence, Jeff Rooker, Peter Ainsworth, Zad Padda, Ben Rogaly, Jez Lewis, Chris Kaufman, Charlie Clutterbuck and many others.
March 1 2007Bulletin Winter '06 - 'The bottom line'
The fourth issue of our magazine is now available to subscribers, with articles about food poverty, hunger and ethical business.
November 30 2006Bulletin Autumn '06 - 'Secrecy'
The third issue of our magazine is now available to subscribers, with articles that range from the hidden stories behind our coffee to the latest on gene-tailored diets.
September 1 2006
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