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Feeding Britain

Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them

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Feeding Britain

Yazan: Tim Lang
Seslendiren: Roy McMillan
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How does Britain get its food?
Why is our current system at breaking point?
How can we fix it before it is too late?

British food has changed remarkably in the last half century. As we have become wealthier and more discerning, our food has Europeanized (pizza is children's favourite food) and internationalized (we eat the world's cuisines), yet our food culture remains fragmented, a mix of mass 'ultra-processed' substances alongside food as varied and good as anywhere else on the planet.

This book takes stock of the UK food system: where it comes from, what we eat, its impact, fragilities and strengths. It is a book on the politics of food. It argues that the Brexit vote will force us to review our food system. Such an opportunity is sorely needed. After a brief frenzy of concern following the financial shock of 2008, the UK government has slumped once more into a vague hope that the food system will keep going on as before. Food, they said, just required a burst of agri-technology and more exports to pay for our massive imports.

Feeding Britain argues that this and other approaches are short-sighted, against the public interest, and possibly even strategic folly. Setting a new course for UK food is no easy task but it is a process, this book urges, that needs to begin now.

'Tim Lang has performed a public service' Simon Jenkins, Sunday Times

© Tim Lang 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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Present discontents lend urgency to Lang's core message ... Security matters, and that includes food security. Lang has performed a public service. (Simon Jenkins)
Forceful, illuminating, an ambitious manifesto ... The advent of coronavirus has added timeliness to Lang's warning about the fragility of our food supply. (Martin Bentham)
When Lang says that "although not officially at war, the UK is, de facto, facing a wartime scale of food challenge", it's worth paying attention. We are in serious trouble ... It's a simple message, but in the white heat of a crisis, defined by queues outside supermarkets, a useful one. (Jay Rayner)
Lang practically invented food ethics in this country ... Feeding Britain tells us how we could build a better food system, and shows that it is possible. (Sophie Morris)
Feeding Britain is distinguished by the clarity and care with which it lays out urgent issues, most centrally that Britain does not produce enough food to feed itself. (Erica Wagner)
It is dense with statistics for journalists and academics to harvest and will, I suspect, become the go-to book for anyone interested in what is now going to be a hot political issue. (Jamie Blackett)
For years, food policy expert Tim Lang has been an almost lone voice in the wilderness, arguing that UK food security needs to be improved. In his new, very timely book, Lang notes that most consumers think that "as long as there is food on the supermarket shelves, all is well in the world. It is not". (Bee Wilson)
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Full of data, detail and context. A wake-up call. For the IK. Read it twice!

Stinking book

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Like so many areas of our lives that we have abdicated to inscrutable corporations, the scale of the perverse incentives which drive our behaviours is masked by shiny happy sales techniques. This book uncovers how globalised food markets have led to self perpetuating inequities in health, wealth and ultimately sovereignty. For an island, this is a precarious position to be in. One which pandemics, climate change and the increasingly rapid onset of ecological breakdown will expose our fragile resilience. And it's not just a matter of the Royal Navy securing supply lines. The book takes us through a revealing tour of the history of British food resilience. The reading aloud of detailed supporting statistics some might find detracting, but they are also astounding.
A must read to understand how to avoid further food system and national health deterioration. Solutions provided.

important and detailed

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The author’s knowledge of his specialty is fantastic, and the book has some brilliant sections. However, he desperately needs an editor to keep him focused on his areas of knowledge. Instead the book gets lost in shallow attempts to cover the entire spectrum of economics, politics, inequality, and ecology.

For example, whole areas of economic policy are dismissed out of hand with simplistic one line assertions, when any child taking a GCSE in economics could tell him that these are nuanced debates that have occupied the world’s brightest minds for centuries.

This book has the ingredients to be THE text that teases out the complexities in our food system. Such a shame it is ruined by a lack of focus.

A missed opportunity - a deeply frustrating book

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Quite literally the same few things repeated over. In fact, it's fair to say once you have listened to the introduction then the rest is quite unnecessary.

Quite literally the same few things repeated over

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