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Food diet

  • Sunday, 29 September, 2024
    Food businesses and investors call on UK to tackle unhealthy diets

    Mandatory reporting and clear road map of reform needed, say retail giants and financial groups

    Beef burgers in a sesame seed bun with chips on the side
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    UK public policy
    Starmer to ban TV junk food ads before 9pm in public health drive

    PM says he is prepared to be bold in tackling public health through prevention, even in the face of opposition

    A hand taking potato chips from inside a bag
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Antibiotic resistance
    Investors step up calls to cut use of antibiotics in food chain

    Groups managing more than $13tn cite ‘economic imperative’ of finding ways to reduce superbugs’ spread

    Dairy cows in pens
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    Simon Wroe
    Ultra-processed and fast food is everywhere — and causing us harm

    It’s time we saw these products for what they are, stripped of their disingenuous branding

    Ben Hickey illustration of a giant poster of a hamburger, which his peeling off a billboard
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    John Gapper
    Mars will find Pop-Tarts and Pringles hard to digest

    The US confectionery company’s $36bn acquisition of Kellanova makes its health challenge greater

    A Pop-Tart broken in half with jam oozing out
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s milk producers target adults as population ages

    Intense competition forces companies to seek out new areas of growth in one of world’s biggest dairy markets

    An elderly man shops for milk formula in a supermarket in China
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Pollution
    Risk of lead contamination in UK food chain should be assessed, says senior scientist

    Senior toxicologist warns about toxic metals leaking from disused mines, calls for urgent monitoring

    People dining out in London
  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    UK becomes first European country to approve lab-grown meat

    Cell-cultivated meat has prompted opposition in countries such as Italy, France, Austria and the US

    Photo of UK start-up Meatly
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Food Safety
    China probes claims that cooking oil was hauled in unwashed fuel tankers

    Latest food safety scandal erupts over allegations of mixing toxic and edible liquids

    Shoppers peruse cooking oil at a supermarket in Beijing
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Disease control and prevention
    EU secures 40mn doses of bird flu vaccine as cases rise

    Health authorities move to protect farmworkers and other high-risk groups after recent outbreaks

    Montage of test tubes labelled ‘Bird Flu’ in front of an EU flag
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Food security
    Conflict and climate shocks fuel food poverty crises

    More than 25% of children under 5 years are suffering severe hunger, says Unicef report

    Palestinian children queue for food in Gaza
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Nestlé S.A.
    Nestlé CEO says feeding ageing populations a priority as birth rates fall

    World’s largest food group wants to focus on products that boost health of elderly

    Nestlé’s Boost nutritional drink on display at a store in Orlando, Florida
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    The Big Read
    ‘Deny, denounce, delay’: the battle over the risk of ultra-processed foods

    Despite a growing body of evidence, Big Food is trying to dampen fears about the health effects of industrially formulated substances

    Montage of images of salt, pepper, an orange, cheese, crisps, beans, peas, fish, bread and grain
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    US lab-grown meat bans criticised as culture war ‘own goal’

    Producer warns America is ceding a competitive advantage, just as it did with semiconductors

  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Disease control and prevention
    Bird flu outbreak in US cattle sparks fears over next global health crisis

    While pandemic risk is low, scientists say urgent investigations into the virus are necessary

  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    FT live news
    News updates from April 24: Meta shares fall after earnings; Spain’s PM considers quitting
  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Moves to ban lab-grown meat intensify in Republican US states

    Party spearheads legislation as one lawmaker vows not to ‘eat bugs with Bill Gates’

    A cooked piece of lab-grown chicken breast
  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
    Reckitt chief vows to overturn baby formula verdict

    Kris Licht says consumer group will take ‘all steps available’ to challenge jury verdict that Enfamil product caused death of infant

    Enfamil baby formula
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    News in-depthEnvironment
    Welsh communities grapple with toxic legacy of metal mining

    Evidence of chicken and other livestock contaminated with lead triggers calls for urgent regulation

    A basket of eggs
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Health
    ‘Epidemic of obesity’ blights children as global rates soar

    Research shows urgent need for policies to encourage weight loss and cut disease risk

    montage of obese person and charts
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Health
    Experts warn of ‘appalling decline’ in child health in UK

    More than a fifth of five-year-olds are overweight or obese, with one in four suffering from tooth decay, study shows

    Children play on their scooters in Leeds
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Sustainability
    Radical food system overhaul would raise costs but deliver $10tn a year benefit, report says

    Report estimates one-third rise in commodity prices by 2050 would be compensated by health and nature savings

    A French farmer blocks a motorway on Monday, with a sign reading ‘Save agriculture, France is hungry’.
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    News in-depthSpecial Report
    Sustainable Food and Agriculture

    Food deserts blight some of America’s poorest communities. We meet the campaigners fighting back. Plus: Italy’s wine woes; women in agri-business; low-meat Denmark; VCs bet on regenerative farming; improving Africa’s crops; to plough or not to plough?

  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    The fight against food deserts in the US south

    In Oklahoma and Mississippi, historic injustices continue to be felt in people’s diets

    A closed grocery store in north Tulsa
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    Denmark leads the way in incentivising low-meat diets

    Policy carrots have kept livestock farmers sweet so far — but sticks may yet be needed

    Woman protesting against cruelty to animals and eating meat with sign saying “Stop Killing Animals”
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