About This Live Project v.2.1

The Sheffield Food Network is an organisation that promotes and celebrates the growing, sourcing and eating of local food in Sheffield. It serves the people of Sheffield though an online interface, as an online guide to everything and anything to do with sustainable food in Sheffield.

Firstly the Sheffield Food Network links sustainable food outlets, producers and restaurants to the people of Sheffield, but aims to extend this relationship by sharing ideas about growing fruit and vegetables, butchery, baking, local recipes, how to forage for wild food, and much more.

The Sheffield Food Network continues the exchange of information started by Grow Sheffield and Abundance Sheffield with the overall long term aim of creating an open social network, connecting people who have an interest in sharing Sheffield’s sustainable food resources. 

If you have arrived here on a recommendation or through personal interest, we invite you to contribute to the ongoing discussions.

Wednesday 15 October 2008

Some choice reading from Leon Ballin

FOOD DISTRIBUTION: AN ETHICAL AGENDA

A report out from the Food Ethics Council examines the impact of food distribution networks on our environment, economy, culture and communities, and their contribution to climate change.

The way our food is distributed cements in place production, consumption and trading practices that destroy the environment, harm animals and are deeply unjust. 'Food distribution: and ethical agenda' offers a sustainable vision for the future of food distribution, and provide a roadmap for government, business and civil society to help get us there.

The report calls for far reaching changes to government policy spanning climate change, transport, planning and school food. It argues that businesses will be under growing public pressure to prove they can be trusted choice editors, taking the responsibility for consuming ethically off their customers shoulders.

Find out more:

- Download the report (http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/node/399)

- Press release: government must get back to basics on food economy (http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/node/400)

- Press release: putting food on the nation's plate (http://www.foodethicscouncil.org/node/398)

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