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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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UYL – Sourdough September Social

food

12th Sep 2015

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 …

UYL – Sourdough September

food

28th Aug 2015

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 …

Eat SMART pledge – T

food

7th Aug 2015

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

food

31st Jul 2015

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

food

24th Jul 2015

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

food

19th Jul 2015

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

food

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

food

10th Jul 2015

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 …

Can you resist meat for a month? Meat Free May

food

30th Apr 2015

Our current diets are harming our health and our planet. How our food gets to our tables is almost unrecognisable from 50 years ago. While people in some parts of the world do not have enough to eat, others suffer …

US lobby giants are out to destroy great new food advice

food

31st Mar 2015

Earlier this year, the US brought out an excellent set of draft dietary guidelines. But the US meat industry is on the attack. And in the UK we are lagging far behind.

The Precautionary Principle and how TTIP may kill it …and you?

food

20th Mar 2015

Current food regulations use the ‘precautionary principle’, which means it is possible to withdraw a product from the market if there is a risk that it may pose a danger to human health, even if there is insufficient scientific data …

Take the Eating Better Challenge this year

food

9th Jan 2015

Welcome to 2015. Have you set yourself any challenges for the new year? Maybe you want to spend more time with friends, read more books or adopt a healthier lifestyle. Perhaps you want to try new things.

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