All comment & opinion articles – Page 8
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Comment & OpinionPrivilege should be acknowledged. Hiding it helps no one
The column I write for this magazine is a form of privilege. That’s a microphone not everyone is handed, and I’m grateful for it. But I’ve often avoided writing about my own privilege, says Dan Crossley, executive director of the Food Ethics Council
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Comment & OpinionChanel No.5 turned scent into shorthand for desirability. Can food & drink do the same?
Perfumes from Jo Malone and Korean fragrance brand Borntostandout show food & drink can play more in the scents space, says Alex Beckett of Mintel Food & Drink
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Comment & OpinionIs the government going soft in its war on plastic?
It’s been yet another turbulent period for Defra and the industry’s war on plastic
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Comment & OpinionCan tariff suspensions make your weekly shop cheap?
The latest round of tariff suspensions on food and fertiliser imports has been sold as cost of living relief, but the impact on prices will be limited, says Sahana Suraj, a research assistant at the University of Sussex
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Comment & OpinionA billion meals go to waste every year – here’s how we fix it
Every year, enough food goes to waste to feed every child in the UK for a month. This group of CEOs from the community redistribution sector believes more needs to be done to rescue it
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Comment & OpinionWhat does Andy Burnham’s new education plan mean for food & drink?
The food industry has welcomed the expansion of Burnham’s plan, based on a policy deployed in Manchester where schools tailor their curriculum to meet the needs of local employers
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Comment & OpinionYour Voice: junk food ads, functional drinks and farming policy
For too long, the debate around children’s health has centred on personal responsibility
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Comment & OpinionIs Lidl’s Little Moons ‘dupe’ a sign the game has changed?
If Lidl’s version is a dupe, it is one that appears to have adopted relatively little in the way of packaging design cues from Little Moons
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Comment & OpinionSainsbury’s long-term own-label deals are a threat to brands
Once the quality gap closes in fresh, dairy, meat and poultry, the brand premium becomes harder and harder to defend, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & OpinionEditor’s picks: dry spells, cold treats & the RTD gold rush
From crop stress to rocketing ice cream sales and a £11m RTD funding round, here’s what caught our eye this week
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Comment & OpinionAfter Andy Burnham’s quick wins, the real challenge begins
Burnham’s 10-year plan for Britain needs to extend to the far more complex challenge of fixing business rates and employment costs
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Comment & OpinionMagnum is on point with further foray into fashion
Inside the ‘House of Magnum’, parallels between couture and ice cream are cleverly drawn
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Comment & OpinionThe Healthy Thinking Diet: Sharry Cramond pours thought into self-help
The M&S marketing director extols the virtues of applying the principles of healthy eating and a good diet to the way we think
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Comment & OpinionWater shortages cannot be allowed to threaten UK food security
Alarm bells have been ringing across the food industry after chicken giant 2 Sisters closed one of its factories due to food safety and animal welfare concerns
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Comment & OpinionWhy the war on UPFs has hit an evidence-based roadblock
Will Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper crack down on ultra-processed foods? That question is very much up for debate
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Comment & OpinionRegulation can give food businesses the level playing field they need
A year on from the Health and Social Care Committee’s promise of clearer food standards, it is the delay, not the regulation itself, that is costing businesses, says Katharine Jenner, executive director of the Obesity Health Alliance
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Comment & OpinionPlastic Free July has done its job, now it’s the industry’s turn
Fifteen years of asking shoppers to try harder to cut out plastic has taken us as far as it can – the baton must pass to brands, retailers and government, says Laura Harnett, founder of Seep
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Comment & OpinionThe junk food ‘clampdown’ isn’t failing, it’s working
Campaign called the ASA’s recent rulings proof that regulation had failed, but they actually prove the opposite, says Mike Coppen-Gardner, founder and CEO of WeAreSPQR
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Comment & OpinionAre retail media sales teams just ‘gorillas with calculators’?
Just the mention of retail media to suppliers was met with eyerolls, frustrated sighs and sometimes colourful accounts of pressurised sales tactics
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Comment & OpinionThe Health Select Committee has listened to young people. Now Andy Burnham must act
Parliament has finally listened to young people on junk food marketing, now the new prime minister needs to follow through, says Alice, a campaigner at Bite Back