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Food and drink companies are no strangers to activist campaigns. From historical boycotts of Nestlé over the promotion of infant formula...
nickjhughes
- Jul 20, 2015
- 3 min
What does a Conservative government means for food policy?
There’s been a discernible sense of euphoria emanating from Conservative MPs and their supporters ever since the party won a surprise...
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nickjhughes
- Jun 22, 2015
- 2 min
A divine intervention
I can’t claim to have read all 246 paragraphs of Pope Francis’s Encyclical On Care for our Common Home but I’ve read enough extracts...
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nickjhughes
- May 13, 2015
- 2 min
Think global, act local
Food has long since ceased to be a local business. Just as empires were built on commodities shipped from all four corners of the...
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nickjhughes
- Dec 14, 2023
- 3 min
Investment in water can’t run dry forever
As I stare out of my office window (and defer writing this article for the third time this morning) the sun is streaming in through the...
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nickjhughes
- Aug 20, 2023
- 3 min
It's time we paid the true price of food
How much do you pay for your morning cup of coffee? Now let me rephrase the question: how much would you be prepared to pay for your...
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nickjhughes
- Dec 14, 2023
- 3 min
Investment in water can’t run dry forever
As I stare out of my office window (and defer writing this article for the third time this morning) the sun is streaming in through the...
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nickjhughes
- Aug 20, 2023
- 3 min
It's time we paid the true price of food
How much do you pay for your morning cup of coffee? Now let me rephrase the question: how much would you be prepared to pay for your...
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nickjhughes
- Jun 20, 2023
- 5 min
Comical food policy is no laughing matter
“The UK food system, the largest industry in the country by a country mile, is a puppet of a failing, shallow, ignorant and low...
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nickjhughes
- May 12, 2023
- 4 min
Theme park junk food does little to amuse
Who is responsible for the UK’s obesity crisis? Is it we as individuals? Or does responsibility ultimately rest with governments and food...
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