Eating Better

We are excited to release the updated Better by Half Roadmap, Eating Better’s guide for achieving nutritious, healthy and sustainable diets across the UK, with a focus on less and better meat and dairy. This revision builds on its creation in 2019. It is a reflection of our shared objectives as an alliance, formed through collaboration between our 68 member organisations.

New data from Eating Better shows that retailers, food service and government need to catch up with public attitudes towards meat, dairy and supporting farmers.

Eating Better is pleased to welcome seven organisations from a wide range of expertise to the alliance.

The way we farm is key to building and maintaining healthy and sustainable food systems in the UK. We spoke to Huw Foulkes of Pentrefelin about his farm in North Wales about how he is supplying pasture-fed meat and dairy to his local community.

Eating Better is pleased to announce the appointment of Julia Kirby-Smith as its new Chair of Trustees.

This year marks 10 years of Eating Better. A decade in, we’re being increasingly recognised as a successful model of cross-sectoral collaboration for advocacy.

The Climate Change Committee’s latest Progress Report to Parliament highlights how the UK is falling short on reducing domestic emissions from all sectors and failing to facilitate a shift to healthy and sustainable diets.

At Eating Better, we are reflecting on what food justice looks like to us. We are starting to critically examine the role we play in transformation towards sustainable, healthy, just food systems. 

The results from our latest survey with Public Sector Catering show the sector’s continued progress towards serving less meat in public sector meals.

As we emerge from the pandemic, it’s time to hit reset - we can’t go back to business-as-usual. We need to take action to fix the climate and nature emergency, but we can’t do this without tackling food.

School Food Matters is the newest member to Eating Better, bringing another major voice on school food advocacy to the alliance. The charity exists to teach children about food, where it comes from and how it’s grown and to improve children’s access to healthy, sustainable food.

Last year Unchecked UK carried out a  series of teleforums with swing voters in five “Red Wall’ constituencies that changed hands from Labour to Conservative in the December 2019 election. They explored how the constituents felt about regulation and standards in general, and specifically in relation to both food and climate change.

Eating Better launches an ambitious plan to help retailers and restaurants source climate and nature friendly meat.