All comment & opinion articles – Page 101
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Comment & OpinionIndustry is more than capable of adapting to HFSS laws – regardless of the objections
Threats from food industry trade bodies have done an effective job in promoting the interests of their largest and most aggressive members, says Mhairi Brown, policy and public affairs manager, Action on Sugar
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Comment & OpinionCan Mars persuade shoppers to pay more for ‘healthy confectionery’?
The confectionery giant is resisting HFSS tinkering by launching an alternative range mostly made of date paste and nuts
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Comment & OpinionFood charities should ditch low-quality processed food and focus on fresh, home-cooked meals
Food banks hand out too many low-quality products – but some organisations are thinking up innovative ways to get wholesome meals to those who need it, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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Comment & OpinionWe need an Australian-style GSCOP to support suppliers through CPIs
GSCOP does not deserve unquestioned reverence. It needs scrutiny, says David Sables, CEO of Sentinel Management Consultants
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Comment & OpinionHow our new Natasha Ednan-Laperouse Clinical Trial could save lives and help eradicate food allergies
The £2.2m Natasha Clinical Trial is about helping to protect the millions of people in the UK with food allergies from allergic reactions, says Nadim Ednan-Laperouse
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Comment & OpinionTesco’s belated support package for pig farmers is welcome. But is it enough to rescue the sector?
Tesco clarified that £3.4m had already been passed on to farmers since March
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Comment & OpinionWaitrose is standing up for British pig farmers. But we need help
Waitrose is calling on the entire industry to support British pig farmers, says its senior agriculture manager Jake Pickering
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Comment & OpinionThe HFSS climbdown puts Boris Johnson on a collision course with Henry Dimbleby
The government is due to publish its white paper response to Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy next month
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Comment & Opinion‘Cheap food’ calls from prime minister come with cheap shots
What more could the government do to help with the cost of living crisis? This week Tesco chair John Allan and JLP boss Sharon White weighed in
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Comment & OpinionSweet Mr Kipling ad lets viewers fill in blanks
Mr Kipling’s new ad allows (or should that be forces?) its audience to fill in the gaps in its story
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Comment & OpinionUse PRESENTING tips to stop your audience from falling asleep
Some poor idiot stands at the front with slides they have sweated blood perfecting… only to kill the whole thing by reading them out
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Comment & OpinionStop supporting businesses still selling in Russia
Why is no clear stance being taken against all those companies that continue to operate in Russia, asks Kat Leclerc, company director at EuropaFood
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Comment & OpinionAs brands Hun and Babe struggle, is there a future for canned wine in the UK?
Hun said an “extremely tough” festival season in 2021 had led to it calling in the administrators
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Comment & OpinionFinally, consensus on HFSS laws: no one has any idea what’s going on
There is a total lack of transparency and clarity over what a backtrack – if indeed there was one – would entail
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Comment & OpinionWhat we can learn from Aldi and Lidl as trusted brands among shoppers
As observers, we may get a bit bored of this story – but shoppers just keep lapping it up, says Jeremy Garlick, partner at Insight Traction
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Comment & OpinionAnother Queen’s Speech, another pledge to scrap the NI protocol. What next for UK food & drink?
Fishing and agriculture, two industries supposed to benefit more than most from Brexit, were not mentioned in today’s speech
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Comment & OpinionMcColl’s has been saved, but the real work starts now for Morrisons
The Morrisons deal appears to secure the immediate future of McColl’s stores, the jobs of its 16,000 employees and its pension fund, but business as usual is not an option if it wants to make it work long term
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Comment & OpinionCheese and chorizo out of scope of HFSS regs despite near demise of PM
The anomalous drafting of the laws, as devised by the DHSC, are the issue here
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Comment & OpinionLaid-back Red Leg impresses with crab dance
Why does Red Leg rum have a crab on the bottle?
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Comment & OpinionLand fallowing: How an unlikely safari gave me hope in the climate crisis
Intensively farmed until 2005, Knepp has recovered in fewer than 20 years to be a leading site of biodiversity and, perhaps less intuitively, climate action