How can we create a better food future for all in a post-Covid world?
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BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme has been doing some very visionary work over the last week – and the latest it ‘rethinking the food dimension’:
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Rethink: The Food Dimension.
As part of the BBC’s Rethink series Dan Saladino asks how we can create a better food future for all in a post-Covid world.
Community cook Dee Woods addresses concerns over poverty and how disadvantaged communities can get better access to food.
The Food Programme – Rethink: The Food Dimension. – BBC Sounds
BBC Radio 4 – The Food Programme
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Several people and groups were interviewed:
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The programme started and finished with someone who ‘divides his time between East Devon and Bristol”:
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall | River Cottage
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There’s a very determined group campaigning on all sorts of food issues:
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Henry Dimbleby leads a key organisation:
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Jimmy Doherty knows his food:
BBC One – Jimmy’s Food Factory
Food Unwrapped – profiles – Jimmy Doherty – All 4
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Leslie Baron thinks we need to be feeding everybody well:
Granville Community Kitchen | Empowering Community Through Food
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Ian Wright of the Food and Drink Federation thinks there should be a Minister for Hunger:
Industry urges government to appoint ‘minister for hunger’ | News | The Grocer
As do many others:
Committee urges government to appoint Minister for Hunger – News from Parliament – UK Parliament
The government don’t think that the UK needs a hunger minister
MPs want hunger minister role introduced – BBC News
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Food and health are connected:
Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong | How To Academy
Eating to support gut health and immunity
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FInally, the biggest citizen science project in the world, from Tim Spector:
Diet and gut health are crucial modifiable risk factors in coronavirus severity, says professor
Coronavirus: research reveals way to predict infection – without a test