First Word
Neither credible nor edible
The EAT–Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems, a key international authority, published its latest report in October 2025. Its conclusions were damning: “More than half of the world’s
Column
WI Oh WI
When home-cooked turkey roasted Reformed chicken. I’ve developed a whole new respect for the WI. I’ll never unsee its indestructible president, Virginia Austen, using her WI pinny like a matador’s
Interviews
An innovative way to innovate
Ethiopian activist, Million Belay, talks to The Mint about the fight to take back control of Africa’s food. In a world where food is increasingly treated like a financial product—priced,
Not broken, just wrong
Nutrition expert, Stuart Gillespie, tells The Mint the food system is killing more people than hunger ever did and radical change is needed to end the carnage. In his book,
Articles
Taking the die out of diet
Henry Leveson-Gower and Dil Green map potential paths to escape the tyranny of Big Food. The modern food system delivers cheap calories at scale, but at the cost of health,
Give and take
What happens when the same people who once marched in protest suddenly find themselves inside Town Hall? Tanya Zerbian, Soledad Cuevas, Ana Moragues-Faus and Daniel López-García tell the tale of
The Breadbasket on Borrowed Time
Julien Étienne tells the story of the Fens—an engineered landscape that feeds the UK, and whose people are facing critical threats from climate change. The threat of climate change to
Meat: what’s the beef and who pays?
Stephanie Walton herds the arguments around how stranded assets might be handled were the world to rein in its rampant carnivorousness to the point where the planet isn’t slaughtered. Over
When finance eats the world
In a year when billionaires added trillions to their fortunes, governments slashed health and education budgets to pay creditors, just as climate-fuelled disasters drove hunger and displacement to new highs.
Stop blaming the “food system”
Donatella Gasparro suggests the real culprit is capitalism, and we need a post-growth alternative. After more than ten years of involvement in agri-food matters from a bizarrely wide variety of
The good, the bad and the wealthy
Stewart Lansley argues that too much of the UK’s abundant wealth is the wrong kind. As the dust settles on Labour’s budget, it is worth recalling that Keir Starmer went
The growing population
Planting fields with a variety of strains of each plant makes for a resilient crop in the face of global warming. But global markets create other priorities? Nick Easen writes.
Episodes in a cereal
Jack Thompson tells the hidden history of pollution, profiteering and protest behind Britain’s favourite breakfast cereal. Weetabix, the compressed wheat biscuit usually served drowned in milk, is a cereal that
Review
Expletive delighted
Cory Doctorow’s book dumps on the digital economy for its descent into the sewer, driven by exploitative practices toward its customers. Doctorow provides a case for why it need not