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Opinion: Health, Resilience & Growth – Building On the UK’s Alternative Protein Progress Linus Pardoe, senior UK programme manager at the Good Food Institute Europe, outlines why the UK government must embrace alternative proteins in its new food strategy, or risk falling behind. The UK government plans to implement a new!-->!-->!-->… Read More...
Opinion: Health, Resilience & Growth – Building On the UK’s Alternative Protein Progress
4 Mins Read The UK government plans to implement a new food strategy this spring with an ambitious vision – a food system that is healthier, more resilient, and drives economic growth. With climate change, military conflicts and trade wars causing ever more frequent shocks to global supply chains, there is an urgent need to achieve these goals, and now is the time to double down on the progress the country has made in developing alternative proteins.
Putting British success on the menu: Time for a UK alternative proteins strategy
This report calls on the UK Government to adopt a comprehensive policy stance on alternative proteins (APs) – food products deriving their protein content from non-animal or non-traditional sources. Alternative proteins are a greener, kinder, and more efficient means of getting protein into our diets, than animal-based foods. Consumer appetite for alternatives to conventional meat, dairy and seafood has grown considerably in recent years and the UK has a strong domestic market.
Treating and preventing adolescent obesity
Published: 13 December 2021 Author(s): Scott Corfe, Jake Shepherd, Linus Pardoe This briefing paper examines adolescent obesity in Britain. It explores trends in obesity rates, their drivers and policy options for improving adolescent health outcomes and reducing the substantial societal costs of adolescent obesity and its frequent persistence into adulthood. KEY POINTS Obesity rates in England have increased significantly since the mid-1990s.
Raising the steaks: developing a market for alternative protein in the UK
Publication The emergence of an “alternative protein” sector has the potential to reduce the ecological impact associated with the UK’s reliance on animal protein. This briefing paper considers whether the UK Government should support the development of alternative meat products as part of fulfilling its Net Zero ambitions. Despite the growing popularity of diets and products designed to reduce how much meat we eat, the UK today consumes only 6% less meat per capita in the home than in 1974.
Wonk Week - 24/05/21
The week that was World Health Organisation & International Labour Organisation – a world-first study explores the link between long working hours and ill health, specifically heart disease and stroke. Around 488 million people worldwide worked more than 55 hours per week in 2016, with an estimated 745,000 deaths attributable to long working hours. Most of those deaths were amongst 60-79-year-olds, whilst 72% were men.
Wonk Week - 26/04/21
The week that was Labour market stats – youth unemployment was the big concern borne out of the latest ONS jobs data, with young people making up 57% of the total fall in employment over the last year. Reaction here from Learning & Work’s Stephen Evans, Stuart McIntyre from the Fraser of Allander Institute, and Heather Taylor and Rebecca Florisson of the Work Foundation.
SMF Monthly | Savings auto-enrolment: an answer to the financial resilience crisis?
Monthly Briefing October update It is neither sensible nor tasteful to look for positives in a pandemic that has killed tens of thousands of our compatriots and will leave hundreds of thousands more people short of money and work. But change brings opportunity, and COVID-19, which has already changed so much, should lead to more change still.
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