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Time for a national food policy?

Sustainability

Soil

Water

Fertilisers

Pesticides Greenhouse

gasses

Biodiversity

Food quality & safety

Food policy environment

Politics

Big Business

Small Business

Media

Science

Public health

Environment

Who owns the food system?

Who owns the world’s seed supply?

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World’s top pesticide companies

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Who controls the food marketplace?

UK grocery market shares

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Power imbalance in food supply

Food policy distorted by vested interests

Politics

Big Business

Small Business

Media

Science

Public health

Environment

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Not just food policy ...

... ethics driven food policy

How are issues understood

Society

Public Debate

Political Debate

Scientific Debate

Ethics can unite the areas of debate

Ethical Debate

Public Debate

Political Debate

Scientific Debate

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A perfect food system?

• Food that supports and enhances human health & well-being (adequate

quality and adequate quantity)

• Sustainable food production (preservation and enhancement of food production resources)

• High standards of welfare in food animal production

• Equitable sharing of the nutrition and economic goods that the system provides – respect for all working to produce food

• Net Positive impacts on the wider environment and biodiversity

• Protection of global ecosystem services

A significant impediment to reasoned progress in ethical food policy?

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This is home – we have no other and never will in all probability

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Thank you