Projects

The Food Ethics Council works on a number of projects at any time, funded by grant giving bodies, or commissioned by government, businesses and third sector organisations.

Click on the links below to view our current and previous projects. To suggest an idea for a new project, please email info@foodethicscouncil.org.

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Backgrounder on children's diets

The diets of children in the UK do not meet the nutritional standards recommended by government advisers.

Farming animals for food

How can we respect our duties of care and compassion to farm animals?

Food and Fairness Inquiry

The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has awarded us funding for a two-year project to put social justice back at the heart of progressive policy, business and campaigning on food issues.

Food distribution

The way our food is distributed cements in place production, consumption and trading practices that destroy the environment, harm animals and are deeply unjust. How can we do it better?

Food governance

Understanding how power is shifting within the food system and improving public accountability.

Genetically modified foods

Analysing the ethical implications of 'novel foods'.

Nutrition and public health

How are trends in policy, food marketing and nutrition science shifting responsibilities for public health?

Reform of the CAP

How can EU agricultural policy promote sustainable farming and food?

Reforming the regulation of drug use in farm animals

Farm animals are given drugs to make them grow faster or yield more milk, not just to treat disease.

Research and innovation

How can science and technology can be made socially and ethically robust?

Water

How should our food system meet the challenge of water scarcity? By 2025, two-thirds of the world will live in water-stressed countries. Since farming is the world's biggest water use, with crop...

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