Food Ethics Council

The Food Ethics Council is a charity that provides independent advice on the ethics of food and farming. Our aim is to create a food system that is fair and healthy for people, animals and the environment.

Featured Issues

Snapshot: UK sustainable food systems in the spotlight

Our latest work is a snapshot analysis of the UK's position on the 2018 Food Sustainability Index ('FSI') - an index produced by the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition (‘BCFN’) and the Economist Intelligence Unit (‘EIU’).

Farm Animal Welfare Metrics

The Food Ethics Council is working to help unlock the power of farm animal welfare metrics.

Food Citizenship

Food citizenship explores the idea that we are not just consumers at the end of the food chain, but participants in the food system as a whole.

Fairness in the food system

Findings of our Populus Poll on attitudes to fairness in the food system.

Latest blog posts

27/02/19

We need a green diet that's not half-baked

Julian Baggini considers the merits and flaws in EAT-Lancet's 'planetary health diet'

12/12/18

Ten reasons to be optimistic about the future of UK food and farming

Amidst the doom, turmoil and uncertainty, there are still reasons to be optimistic about the future of UK food and farming.

Stronger focus needed on animal welfare metrics

Sharing the Chair

My vision for post-Brexit Britain

Brexit – time to put society, farm animals and wildlife centre stage

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