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Annual reports

The Food Ethics Council’s Annual report details our work, and the progress we have made over the year. It includes information on projects, staff, Council members and events, and funding details.

The Food Ethics Council was registered as a charity in February 2004 (No. 1101885). We became a company limited by guarantee in 2000 (No. 03901671).

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Annual report 2008-2009
Annual Report 2007-2008

Staff

Our staff of four work in our office in Brighton. We act as the secretariat for the Food Ethics Council, undertake and communicate research, produce reports and magazines, organise events and provide independent advice to business, government and civil society.

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Lisa Unsworth

Office Manager
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Sean Roberts

Policy Director
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Liz Barling

Communications Manager
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Tom MacMillan

Executive Director
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Polls

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What super-farms mean for animals

What super-farms mean for animals

Plans for 2000-pig-fattening unit get provisional go-ahead

Poll shows that shoppers are ready to boycott milk from super-dairies

Milk from clones

Who should be responsible for healthy school meals?

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What's on

The Food Ethics Council keeps up you up to date with key events and milestones in the food and farming calendar. If you would like us to add your event please contact info@foodethicscouncil.org.

Below is a list of events that are coming up soonest. For a full listing, please browse our Calendar.

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11 Sep 2010 - 12 Sep 2010
Organic Food Festival
11 Sep 2010 - 12 Sep 2010
Harvest at Jimmy's
13 Sep 2010 - 24 Sep 2010
Rights based approach to food and nutrition security course
14 Sep 2010 - 18 Sep 2010
14th International Biotechnology Symposium and Exhibition: Biotechnology for the Sustainability of Human Society
15 Sep 2010
London Food Link’s September Network Do
15 Sep 2010 - 16 Sep 2010
NCFI National Conference
15 Sep 2010
FSA Open Board Meeting
16 Sep 2010 - 18 Sep 2010
9th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics- Global Food Security: Ethical and Legal Challenges
18 Sep 2010 - 3 Oct 2010
British Food Fortnight
20 Sep 2010
Beef, Bread and Water: Ethical food in a warm and thirsty world

Members

The Food Ethics Council’s 14 members work voluntarily and in a personal capacity. Their backgrounds include farming, food businesses and academia.

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David Croft

Global Director of Conformance and Sustainability at Cadbury Schweppes plc.

Dr Charlie Clutterbuck (trustee)

Director: Environmental Practice at Work

Dr Kate Rawles

Senior lecturer in Outdoor Studies at The University of Cumbria

Geoff Tansey (trustee)

Joseph Rowntree Visionary for a Just and Peaceful World

Helen Browning OBE (chair)

Organic farmer; Director of External Affairs, National Trust.

Jeanette Longfield MBE

Coordinator: Sustain - the alliance for better food and farming

John Verrall

Pharmaceutical chemist

Julia Hailes MBE

Freelance writer and consultant

Professor Ben Mepham

Special Professor in Applied Bioethics: University of Nottingham; Visiting Professor in Bioethics, University of Lincoln

Professor Christopher Ritson (treasurer)

Professor of Agricultural Marketing: University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Professor Doris Schroeder

Professor of Moral Philosophy and Director at the Centre for Professional Ethics, UCLan Preston

Professor Elizabeth Dowler (trustee)

Professor of Food and Social Policy in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick

Professor Kevin Morgan

Director of Regeneration Institute, Cardiff University

Professor Ruth Chadwick

Director of the ESRC Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics

Success Stories

At the Food Ethics Council, we believe in putting ethics at the heart of decisions affecting what people eat. Since 1998, our reports, briefings and events have challenged government, business and the public to tackle difficult questions at the forefront of developments in food and farming.

Our work makes a difference, often behind the scenes. Click on the links below to find out more.

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Winner of BBC Food and Farming Derek Cooper award
Caroline Walker Trust award
Fair food distribution in a warmer world
Food Ethics For Industry with the FDIN
FEC highly commended at Glenfiddich Food & Drink Awards
Welsh Assembly first on food ethics
Cabinet Office food analysis
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