Manchester Friends of the Earth | Archive of website content

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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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12 Days of Christmas (12): Top ten cookbooks for eating better

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With the silly season upon us and thoughts turning to Christmas gifts we thought a few hints from the green Christmas elf wouldn’t go astray! Over the next 12 days we will posting some Christmas gift ideas that are a …

12 Days of Christmas (9): Homemade present ideas

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Processed meats cause cancer, says WHO

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news release

Commenting on the report today by the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which concludes that processed meat causes cancer and red meat is a “probable carcinogen”, Friends of the Earth’s senior food campaigner, Clare Oxborrow …

UYL - Sourdough September Social

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To celebrate Sourdough September our food social this month is taking place Thursday 17th September starting 6.30pm at Bakerie, 45 Lever St, NQ, Manchester, M1 1DN. Following a very brief informal catch up on the food campaign, on with the …

Food Waste - Kerry's Bill

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On 9th September, Kerry McCarthy MP will be introducing her Food Waste (Reduction) Bill in the House of Commons. This Bill seeks to ensure that more of the obscene amounts of food needlessly wasted through the food industry supply chains …

UYL - Sourdough September

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Sourdough September is when the Real Bread Campaign goes on a mission to help everyone discover that: life’s sweeter with sourdough! The original method of producing leavened bread, and some people would argue still the best. Across thirty days of …

Ask UK bread makers & retailers to stop using wheat sprayed with glyphosate

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Glyphosate is the most widely sold weedkiller in the world, you might know it as the active ingredient in Roundup. The big chemical companies advise farmers to spray their wheat crops with glyphosate a few weeks before harvest – to …

UYL - Get ready for Sourdough September

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Sourdough September is when the Real Bread Campaign goes on a mission to help everyone discover that: life’s sweeter with sourdough! The Campaign is encouraging Real Bread bakers everywhere to organise their own local events and activities from 1-30 September, …

Eat SMART pledge - T

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Welcome to our post about the fifth and last letter of the Eat SMART pledge : T for Think about where your food comes from Why Eat SMART? There are serious problems with the current way we produce and consume food. …

Eat SMART pledge - R

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Welcome to our post about the fourth letter of the Eat SMART pledge : R for Reduce food waste Why Eat SMART? There are serious problems with the current way we produce and consume food. But by Eating SMART, we can …

Eat SMART pledge - A

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Welcome to our post about the third letter of the Eat SMART pledge : A for Avoid processed and junk food Why Eat SMART? There are serious problems with the current way we produce and consume food. But by Eating SMART, …

Use Your Loaf - Not in our bread

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Sign the Soil Association’s petition to tell major supermarkets and bread manufacturers that we don’t want glyphosate in our bread. Tests by the Defra committee on Pesticide Residues in Food (PRiF) have found that as much as 30% of UK …

Eat SMART pledge - M

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Welcome to our post about the second letter of the Eat SMART pledge : M for more plants, beans and pulses. Why Eat SMART? There are serious problems with the current way we produce and consume food. But by Eating …

Eat SMART pledge - S

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Welcome to our first post about the first letter of the Eat SMART pledge : S for smaller amounts of better meat, fish and dairy. Why Eat SMART? There are serious problems with the current way we produce and consume …

Ultimate veggie burger - for national BBQ Week

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It’s national BBQ Week! Here are a couple of amazing meat-free options to try for #Meat Free May (Crispy on the outside, succulent and smoky-flavoured on the inside, combined with delicious avocado-tahini sauce and baked sweet potato fries – this recipe …