We're an award winning real food collective who are creating a regenerative food culture by our actions in education, food supply and on people’s values
Angus, Scotland
Joined April 2016
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Food giants have been growing in size and power, advertising climate damaging foods and making extortionate profits while they exploit workers and the environment. Govt need to regulate food giants just like we regulate other harmful & polluting industries theguardian.com/environment/…
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The 10 biggest food producers emit more CO2 than all of aviation.
Let’s stop calling Coca-Cola, Mars, Pepsi etc ‘food producers’, they pedal nutritionally empty products so that shareholders can profit from eating OUR futures.
Tax them out of existence. theguardian.com/environment/…
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WHAT THE MEDIA DON'T TELL YOU
We're heading for 5°C or 6°C of heating over land, meaning goodbye to your local forest.
We've known this since the 1980s.
"The media are not doing their job properly" says leading climate scientist @rahmstorf.
So empathize with the observation of @Jonathan_Rowson on @NJHagens podcast that discussing the meta crisis locally fails miserably to achieve the “Let’s put in place the food homes education and economy to support new relationship with each other and planet’s future “. Why?
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Horror! Ridiculous speed approx 50-60mph driven by UPS driver along farm track with 20mph signage. Pedestrians, children and horses often use this track. TR#: 1Z99F9646850029102
@UPS_UK
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Keeping our peasant ways for the time being! Natural Capital is a misnomer for ??? Fleecing communities
1/3 When bankers take over the peat bog. A carbon markets report for Scottish Govt by the London-based “natural capital” investment brokers, Finance Earth.
For tenant farmers - crumbs from the croupier’s table!
For crofters - reform your peasant ways!
finance.earth/wp-content/upl…
The US develops support for local supply chains including to schools hospitals and care institutions. To those who can’t pay full price of food. In Scotland crops for direct human consumption are grown on 2% of the agricultural land.
#LocalFoodNation
📢🗞️The "Expanding Access to Local Foods Act of 2024" was introduced in the Senate, which would create a permanent program to sustain the efforts of USDA’s LFPA program & would empower States & Tribal Nations to strengthen regional food supply chains⬇️🔗
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How we grow, make & eat food isn’t working for everyday people anymore.
We hear five expert perspectives on why food is so important for climate, nature & health, now and for the next generation📽️
@RosieBoycott @Rob_Percival_ @DoctorChrisVT @timgbenton #TheFoodConversation
Join us for the screening of @sixinchessoil at Brechin City Hall On Tuesday 19th March
@ScottEgner1 @YvonneRitchie13 @FoEScot Scott Herrett @AlistairPrior @FiveGlens Scott Petrie
Book tickets at
tinyurl.com/2w7cauhv
#sixinchesofsoil
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“why are millions of pounds of public money being used to provide multinational drinks companies with subsidised barley but no support is available for growing fruit and vegetables to provide local people with dependable, healthy food?” holyrood.com/comment/view,bi…
Scottish Government in capture to large farmers, unrepresentative NFUS, supermarkets and alcohol giants. Do we really want these groups getting our cash which is supposed to support ecological food?
Big Farmer: Agricultural subsidies are too heavily concentrated in the hands of large landowners, says @andywightman holyrood.com/comment/view,bi…
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What @scotgov does matters!
Enable agroecological producers with training and income support to supply one school in each LA with HOLISTIC educational support to parents, teachers, students, LA & supply ALEO
#CannotBeHalfHearted #GoodFoodNation
#JoinedUpGovt
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Best summation of what is needed to action #GoodFoodNation
#agroecology
#communitysupportedagriculture
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Six inches of Soil. Taking on the industrial food system. Screening of much anticipated documentary with Q&A afterwards to explore practical ways to make a positive impact on food system locally.
Brechin City Hall 5.30pm 19 March
Tickets at eventbrite.co.uk/e/six-inche…
Government needs communities to develop/fund their own resilience plans against supply chain, climate, institutional withering. Offer social housing in response for those who are marginalised but still want to improve their area. So much opportunity!
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I just asked my MP to engage in the parliamentary debate on supply chain fairness. You can too. #GetFairAboutFarming @riverford @UKsustain sustainweb.org/news/dec23-ge…
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As usual main cause (1/3) of carbon emissions is food and its non local character. Yet completely ignored in debate.
#BBCdn
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The scale of fires in NW Australia is hard to fathom. An area bigger than Western Europe has been on fire at some point over the last 6 weeks. Global heating plus El Niño is certainly starting to kick in. What will be left by the end of summer?
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European researchers have found new evidence linking popular weed-killing products to cancer at levels currently considered safe. thenewlede.org/2023/10/glyph…
