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Anna Taylor, Executive Director of The Food Foundation on the thrilling news this week from Government on the expansion of free school meals. From September 2026, all children in England who are in households eligible for Universal Credit, will become eligible for free school meals. Anna explains what that means to around half a million additional children from early years settings right through to sixth form, and to the health and wealth of the nation.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Tobi, Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation hosts a panel discussion to discuss meat consumption in the UK to coincide with the launch of a new Food Foundation briefing Meat Facts, published this week,which really delves into who in the UK is eating what meat, what type of meat are we all eating, and where are we eating it.The panel comprises: Sarah Wakefield, Executive Director at the Eating Better Alliance, Sophie Bauer, Head of Food System Transformation at WWF, Mark Breen, Senior Creative Partner at the environmental charity, Hubbub, and Dr Shireen Kasam, Consultant Haematologist and honorary Senior Lecturer at King's College Hospital, London, and founder of Plant Based Health Professionals UK. Click on the links below for more information on meat consumption and why we need to care, and here for the Food Foundation report, Meat Factshttps://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/how-uks-supermarkets-stack-climate-change-commitmentshttps://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/low-hanging-fruit-policy-pathway-boosting-uptake-plant-rich-dietsClick here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Pod Bite, Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation, tells us about our new report on early years nutrition.This report is the third in the series conducting an in-depth study on early years food and nutrition to investigate how the food system and food policy is contributing to the high levels of overweight and obesity in early childhood.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sonia Pombo, head of impact and research at Action on Salt, tells us about the charity's latest research published for Salt Awareness Week from May 12-18th, highlighting salt levels in ready meals and six ways we can reduce our salt intake.Click here for more information on Salt Awareness Week, here the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jessica Sinclair Taylor, Deputy Director of Feedback, on its new Retailer Targets report, Commitment Issues; Why UK retailers climate commitments are failing to deliver and what can be done to fix it. The research, commissioned by Feedback and The Food Foundation shows that despite the UK's 10 major supermarkets making a climate commitment every six days – they are failing against own promises.Click here for the report, the Food Foundation Manifesto, here for its report Low Hanging Fruit, and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alice English, Project Officer in the Business and Policy team at the Food Foundation tells us about a new policy pathway we have published this week in collaboration with Green Alliance and the Good Food Institute. Low Hanging Fruit is a set of pragmatic and easily implementable policy recommendations to boost plant-rich diets in the UK.Click here for more information on Low Hanging Fruit, the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lucy Heyderman, Citizen Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation and Yusuf Shobair, one of our Young Food Ambassadors introduce The Food Activist Toolkit which helps young people find their voice and make real change in the food system.Click here to find out more about the Toolkit, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pete Smith, Professor of Global Change and Soils at the University of Aberdeen tells us about the Climate Inflation Project on how climate change affects food inflation causing food price spikes around the world, and how that affects people in the UK's most disadvantaged communities. Click here for more information on the project, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keira, one of the young food ambassadors at the Food Foundation, is with a panel of experts to find out about Auto Enrolment on Free School Meals. They explore how it can help the 250,000 children who are entitled to a free school meals but are missing out because of the barriers to registering.Professor Maria Bryant, researcher on Fix Our Food, the University of York's five-year research programme is joined by Myles Bremner, CEO of Bremner and co and a partner on the project, Peter Lamb MP, Councillor Gerald Vernon-Jackson, Deputy Chair of the Children and Young People's board at the Local Government Association and Rhett, a single father who reports from the front line of food poverty.Click on the links for more information on Fix our Food, the Food Foundation Manifesto and to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Buszard, Responsible Investor Engagement Lead at the Food Foundation explains the findings of our latest report, Corporate Lobbying: The Dark Side of the Plate. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation reflects on the Spring Statement, how it could impact on food insecurity and what some of the opportunities are in the next few months to try and address this problem. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Pod Bites, Callum Morrissey , a 15-year-old Welsh Youth Parliament member of Clwyd West and young ambassador for the Food Foundation, discusses the Youth Parliament's efforts to tackle child poverty in Wales.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Pod Bite, we hear about the launch of two reports on the accessibility of healthy food for children.As part of the Feed the Future campaign, The Food Foundation hosted a special event at Central Hall in Westminster this week to showcase the benefits of Free School Meals has on academic attainment levels, school food quality, food insecurity, obesity, behaviour, school attendance, and local economies.Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Food Foundation, Shona Goudie tells us about the launch of the Superpower of Free School Meals report at the event, while Barnardo's head of Policy and Public Affairs Alesha de Freitas gives us the highlights of its Nourishing the Future report.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On World Obesity Day, Anna Taylor, Executive Director at the Food Foundation leads a panel discussion on the systems that need to be in place to enable people to maintain a healthy weight and prevent obesity. With Kat Jenner, head of the Obesity Health Alliance, Dr Sophie Harris, consultant in diabetes in general medicine, Dr Stuart Flint, Associate Professor of the Psychology of Obesity at the University of Leeds and Penny Walters, adult ambassador for the Food Foundation who campaigns for a change in the food system. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tilda Ferree, Senior Advocacy and Policy Officer at the Food Foundation tell us about the latest Food Foundation's Food Insecurity Survey. Click here for more information on the report.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at the Food Foundation tells us about a new report from the Competition Markets Authority about infant formula. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dan White and Glory Omoaka, two of the food ambassadors for The Food Foundation, tell us about the Photo-Storytelling Exhibition which accompanied the launch of this year's Broken Plate report and aims to bring to a human element to statistics featured in the report.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Anna Taylor, Chief Executive of the Food Foundation discusses the latest annual Broken Plate report with Sue Pritchard, Executive Director of the Food Farming and Countryside Commission, Malcolm Clark, Senior Policy Manager at Cancer Research UK and Geoff Ogle, the Chief Executive of Food Standards Scotland. We also hear what Dr Chris Van Tulleken, Daniel Zeichner, Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and one the Food Foundation's adult food ambassadors, Caroline Woolham think of the report. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vicky Gilroy health visitor, children' nurse and Director of Innovation Research at the Institute of Health Visiting on the Healthy Start scheme.She tells us why the Food Foundation, along with more than 80 partner organisations, have written a letter to the Government calling for important changes to help pregnant women and those with babies and toddlers living in poverty receive the basic support they need for their children to grow up healthily..Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation is with a panel from politics, policy, academia and investment to discuss what we need from the new government, including from the new food strategy and the mission boards, to really incentivize a healthier food system and ensure everyone can access and afford a healthy diet. The episode is part of our recipe for change campaign led by Sustain, The Food Foundation, Obesity Health Alliance, with a wider coalition of nearly 50 supporting organisations. The campaign is calling for the government to introduce a new tax on food companies to encourage them to improve the healthiness of the food they sell us and play their part in supporting our health. To discuss the opportunities of the new government and what is to come, Hannah is joined by Alison Tedstone, former Department of Health and Public Health England chief nutritionist; conservative peer, James Bethell; Adam Briggs from the Health Foundation and Antony Yousefian, a partner at The First Thirty Ventures. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Click here for more on Recipe for Change, read its latest briefing here and about public support for Government intervention to ensure a healthier food industry here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Food Foundation's Executive Director Anna Taylor reports back from the 2025 Oxford Farming Conference where she presented a joined-up horticulture and healthy food strategy, making the link between the UK's poor diet with social inequity. She argued that the UK's increasing reliance on highly processed cheap food has led to a dangerously weak fresh produce sector and a downward spiral for health.Here she takes us through what she sees as the opportunities for securing more minimally processed foods from farms produced in Britain. She explains that this could deliver benefits for both farmers and consumers at the same time, and help to tackle some of these crisis at either end of the supply chain.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Richard Kipling, researcher in the TABLE initiative at Oxford University tells us about our work on the Reckoning with Regeneration Project. This one year project, funded by the AGILE initiative, focuses on regenerative agriculture, and examines whether or not it can deliver sustainable, nutritious food and a just food system. Click on the links above for more information. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kelly Parsons from the University of Cambridge tells us about an exciting initiative to make the food served in Birmingham Children's Hospital more environmentally sustainable. This initiative is being delivered and evaluated as part of the Mandala Consortium Research project, one of the research projects funded by the UK Research and Innovation Program on transforming the UK food system and help create a 'net zero' NHS. Click here to find more about the project.Click for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this last Pod Bites of the year, Food Foundation Ambassadors, 16 year-old Alex Istrate and Adult Food Ambassador, Dominic Watters look back on their highlights as advocates for a fairer, more sustainable food system.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Pullen, Food System Lead at Birmingham City Council, tells us about the city's journey to transform our food system, and the Birmingham Eating Guidance Exploration report into how to create an environment where people have the capability, opportunity and motivation to eat a nutritious and sustainable diet.Click here for the resources and to read the report, and click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation on the latest Government Food Security Report and the announcement that there will be a new food strategy. Click here for more information on the report, the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Following last week's BBC documentary, Irresistible: Why We Can't Stop Eating by Chris Van Tulleken, Anna Taylor, executive director of The Food Foundation leads a panel discussion on ultra processed food and what we should do to tackle some of the problems arising from eating so much of it.The panel comprises Kimberley Wilson, chartered psychologist who's also qualified in nutrition and the author of Unprocessed. Maurice Cousins, head of campaigns at Public First on the political perspective, Food Foundation Adult Food Ambassador, Kathleen Kerridge and Beccy Cooper MP, Labour MP for Worthing West, public health doctor and who sits on the Health Select Committee.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Katharine Vincent, director of Reconnect London on More than a Meal, an independent evaluation of the first year of London's policy to provide free school meals to all primary age children in state funded schools.Read our Food Foundation Manifesto and subscribe to our newsletter so you don't miss any updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Tobi, Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation hosts a panel discussion on this year's SOFI report. This annual report tracks and assesses the progress of major UK food businesses towards healthier and more sustainable diets.Joining Rebecca on the panel are: Lauren Woodley, Group Nutrition Leader at Nomad foods, Claire Atkins Morris, Director of Sustainability at Sodexo, Nilani Sritheran, Group Head of Healthy and Sustainable Diets at Sainsbury's, and Matt Lomas, Engagement Director at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation.Read the SOFI report, and the Food Foundation Manifesto and subscribe to our newsletter so you don't miss any updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Alfie Slade, the Government Affairs lead at the Obesity Health Alliance on how Britain feels about the food business.The Recipe for Change campaign explores the public's attitude towards a new levy on unhealthy food and drink.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and don't forget to sign up to our newsletter - find out more about the Recipe for Change campaign here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's Pod Bites, Greg Garrett, Executive Director of the Access to Nutrition Initiative tells us the role of business, investors and policy makers in market transformation for nutrition. He argues that embracing nutrition is no longer an option, but must be core to business. Click here for more information on the ATNI's Global Access to Nutrition Index and here to sign up to The Food Foundation's webinar examining the key findings of our State of the Nation's Food Industry Report which publishes on Thursday, November 14, 2024.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, head of policy and advocacy at the Food Foundation, gives her assessment of the autumn budget.Despite a focus on children's health, the Chancellor's announcements lacked significant support for poor households and Hannah touches on key subjects such as the Healthy Start scheme, early years support, free school meals and the Soft Drinks Industry Levy.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Taylor, Executive Director of The Food Foundation gives her response to the new House of Lords Food Diet and Obesity Committee report, Recipe for Health: a plan to fix our broken food system, which was published this week.The report calls for regulatory changes to the food system, including mandatory reformulation targets, a tax on sugar and salt, bans on advertising and celebrity endorsements for unhealthy foods, and mandatory reporting on food healthiness. It emphasizes the need for mandatory approaches over voluntary ones and for insulating policy from commercial interests. It also proposes strengthening nutritional safety nets for children and improving the government's policy infrastructure. The Food Foundation urges the government to act on these recommendations to improve public health and reduce dietary inequalities.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the newsletter and for more analysis check out our latest webinar on our YouTube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation, discusses the first 100 days of the new government with Samson Low from Unison, Sophie Metcalf from the Institute of Government, Lydia Collas, head of natural environment at the Green Alliance, and Baroness Rosie Boycott, member of the House of Lords. Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, and here for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ana Maria Narvaez, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at the Food Foundation, reports on the interconnected crises of food insecurity and mental health in the UK to coincide with World Mental Health Day.She highlights that 28% of adults with mental health conditions live in food-insecure households, compared to 11% without such conditions. Financial instability due to mental health issues exacerbates food insecurity, leading to anxiety, depression, and stress. The inability to afford nutritious food impacts both physical and mental well-being, particularly in children, who face higher rates of mental health issues and school absenteeism.The Food Foundation calls for policies addressing the cost of healthy food, benefit levels, and extending nutritional support programs to alleviate these intertwined crises. Click here for more information on Pushed to the BrinkClick here for the Manifesto and here for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Kate Anstey, Head of Education Policy at Child Poverty Action Group on the latest analysis published this week with The Food Foundation The report urges local leaders to do everything they can to ensure more children get a free lunch but say the onus is squarely on the UK government to expand provision of free school meals and end classroom hunger.Click here for more information, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up to our newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leticija Petrovic, the local food policy lead at the Food Foundation revisits a subject we covered a few months ago in our series of Pod Bites, how place-based, community-led food initiatives can help people access affordable, healthy and sustainable food.She looks more deeply into just three of the 10 models in this collaborative study by the University of Leeds and the Food Foundation, using the Priority Places for Food Index developed by the Consumer Data Research Centre in collaboration with the consumer group, Which? The aim: to gather data about the risk of food insecurity across seven areas in the UK and identify neighbourhoods which are most vulnerable to the rises in the cost of living.With Professor Michelle Morris of the University of Leeds, Juli Thompson of Food Savers, Bradford, Megan Weimann of The Warehouse in Newtonards and Reeni Kennedy-Boyle of Fyne Futures Ltd in Argyle and Bute.Click here for more information on Scaling Out, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up to our newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bee Wilson, author of ground-breaking books First Bite, The Way We Eat Now and most recently, The Secret of Cooking on TastEd, the food charity which shows how teaching kids to taste in school can lead to them learning to eat more healthily.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, and here for the Food Foundation Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul McDonald,Chief Campaigns Officer of Health Equals on this summer's Make Health Equal campaign.Where you're born in the UK can cut your life short by up to 16 years because of factors from income to housing, air quality, access to healthy food and community connections. The Make Health Equal campaign demonstrated that change is possible for the next generation, and Paul explains how it worked.Click here for more information, here for the Food Foundation and here for the Food Foundation Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Tobi, senior business and investor engagement manager at the Food Foundation on a new piece of research exploring plant based alternatives to meat. In a report called Rethinking Plant-based Meat Alternatives, the Food Foundation creates a taxonomy of the best plant-based options for meeting health, environmental and affordability objectives.Click here for the report, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fayeth Jones, one of the original Food Foundation Young Food Ambassadors on this year's Residential or 'Resi' in York.The Young Food Ambassadors are a diverse group of more than 40 activists from around the UK, many of whom have lived experience of food insecurity. As part of the Food Ambassador volunteer programme, they go to events, meet up with policy makers and do media interviews to campaign for better access to healthy food for every child in the UK.Fayeth takes us to York with Jacob, Habiba and Hasan where to discuss what went on at this year's event.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michelle Patel, Deputy Director of Analysis at the Food Standards AgencyThe Food Standard Agency is the Government department that regulates for food safety and looks out for consumers in the food system in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Michelle explains what it knows about people's concerns about food prices and food affordability, both for those in household food insecurity and for people who are not.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, and here for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dan Parker, CEO of Veg Power on how to encourage more kids to eat school meals.As part of Veg Power's annual survey of 3000 parents of primary school aged children and their children, Dan's team asked what's going on at home that's driving decisions about the take up of school meals. And they found that at any given lunch time, 25 to 30% of the children who are entitled to a free school meal, choose not to have it. Dan tells us why and what needs to happen to ensure that every child is getting access to healthy food at school.Click here for more information about the Veg Power survey, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Myles Bremner, Chief Executive of Bremner and Co talks about the Food Standard Agency's recent report on a pilot scheme to monitor school food standards compliance. Click here for more information, here for the Food Foundation manifesto and here for the FF Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Pod Bite, Dr Gemma Bridge, research fellow at the University of Leeds tells us about the scaling up and out place-based food initiatives project that a team from the University of Leeds has conducted in collaboration with the Food Foundation.Place-based community led food initiatives include food banks, social supermarkets, community cafes and community supported food growing schemes and play crucial roles in developing community led place based food systems. They help local people access affordable and healthy food support, physical and mental well being through community activities and enhance financial resilience for employment opportunities. Listen out for more on this exciting initiative in collaboration with the Food Foundation coming soon to this podcast.Click here for more information on the project, and here for the Food Foundation Manifesto Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Shona Goudie, policy and advocacy manager at the Food Foundation tells us about new data it published this week which shows just how difficult it is for families on a low income, specifically those with children, to afford a healthy diet.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, and here for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hannah Brinsden, Head of Policy and Advocacy at The Food Foundation analyses The King's Speech for the new Government's commitment to putting food at the centre of the health of the nation.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here to sign up for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's Pod Bite, Mali Evans, Head of Engagement and Advocacy at Feeding Bristol tell us about Food Justice Fortnight, its series of summer events to celebrate the city's communities and make space for important conversations about food.Click here for more on Feeding Bristol's Food Justice Fortnight, here for the Food Foundation Manifesto, and here to sign up for the Food Foundation Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Rebecca Tobi, Senior Business and Investor Engagement Manager at the Food Foundation hosts a special panel discussion with four representatives from food businesses and the investment community to discuss what they want and need from the first 100 days of a new government. This is, typically, a really interesting and critical time for new governments to set out their direction of travel when it comes to policy priorities and general intent.Recorded before the General Election, the panel of Richard Hall, Vice President and General Secretary for the UK and Ireland at Danone, James Perry, co-founder and co-chair of Cook, Rachel Crossley, Head of Stewardship in Europe for BNP Paribas Asset Management, and Sophie Lawrence, Stewardship and Engagement Lead at Greenbank discuss how to face a dual public health and climate crises through action on the food system. For further information, click on the links below:https://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/lobbying-good-food-businesses-and-investors-share-their-vision-better-food-systemhttps://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/lobbying-good-why-we-need-regulation-level-playing-field-food-industryhttps://foodfoundation.org.uk/news/lobbying-good-why-investors-should-be-lobbying-better-food-systemClick here for the Food Foundation's own Manifesto, and here to sign up for the Newsletter.https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/nourishing-nation-mandatory-reporting-food-businesses-0https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/power-and-accountability-evolving-landscape-corporate-reporting Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Taylor, Executive Director of the Food Foundation digs into the Labour and Green Party manifestos and assesses their commitment to fixing Britain's broken food system.Click here for the Food Foundation's own Manifesto, and here to sign up for the Newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the third in a special series of Election Pod Bites, Shona Goudie, Policy and Advocacy Manager at The Food Foundation tells us about our latest report, A Neglected Generation. From the reduction in height of 5 year-olds to the rise in obesity among 10-11 year-olds by 30%, to Type 2 diabetes among under 25s up 22%, we remind a nation about to vote of the shocking deterioration in children's health over the last decade.Click here for the Food Foundation Manifesto and here for the FF newsletter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.