Plate of the Nation
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This year has already been a big one for food-related events and announcements - from the impact of Covid-19 and panic buying stripping supermarket shelves, to high-profile campaigns around school holiday hunger, to the government's plan to tackle obesity, to the recent launch of Part One of the National Food Strategy.
So what does all this mean for the UK's food future?
Sheila Dillon is joined by industry experts, to discuss how our food system could and should change in future, and answer questions from listeners and special guests about what those changes might mean and involve.
The panellists are Helen Munday, chief scientific officer for the Food and Drink Federation and President of the Institute of Food Science and Technology; Dee Woods, a food educator, co-founder of Granville Community Kitchen and member of the Food Ethics Council; and Chris Elliott, Professor of food safety at Queen's University Belfast and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security.
Sheila also speaks to Henry Dimbleby, author of the National Food Strategy, about the first instalment.
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Lucy Taylor.
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| 1:00.3 | In the midst of one of the strangest times ever, food has been at the heart of many of the biggest stories. |
| 1:07.0 | The global spread of a virus that seems to have its beginnings in our food system. |
| 1:12.0 | Supermarket, strip bare, as the virus tips us into lockdown. |
| 1:16.0 | Obesity and its newly understood consequences, hungry children. |
| 1:22.0 | Trade deals that threaten to undermine hard fought for UK food standards, |
| 1:27.0 | the resurgence of small independent food shops and producers, |
| 1:32.0 | and then most recently the publication of the government |
| 1:35.7 | commissioned national food strategy. A turning point? |
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