We all have to eat, every day. And the safety of what we put in our mouths is exceptionally important. So what – particularly after Brexit – is the government doing outsourcing standard-setting to Brussels?
A big question hovering over the planned Sanitary and Phytosanitary Strategy is what’s going to happen with so-called precision breeding...
28 August 2025
Planning changes have made it easier for councils to sell off allotments, prompting criticism. The threat is real, despite government assurances.
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner prompted a storm of outrage when it emerged that she has eased the way for councils to sell off allotments.
23 April 2025
No one wants to see a reoccurrence of foot and mouth disease in Britain, remembering the slaughter and burning of millions of animals in 2001. British farmers have been urging the government to act in response to cases on the European mainland.
The Bolsheviks called for “Peace, Land and Bread” in 1917 at a time of crisis and transition in Russia. They aimed to unite a country weary of a war for rulers they despised and for aims they did not share.
18 December 2024
Farmers continue to campaign against tax changes and other threats to farming. This focuses attention on food production and the condition of our countryside.
Food for the People
Wednesday 5 March 2025, 7.30 pm
Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Britain’s farmers have drawn attention to the threat to our food security posed by capitalism. Our land is taken over by speculators and taken out of production. What we eat and how it is produced affects us all.
Come and discuss. All welcome. Free entry.
Farm incomes are falling, posing a threat to Britain’s food security. Official figures for England show a 19 per cent drop last year in the total income from farming to £4.5 billion.
A nation must be able to feed itself. To do so needs both management and planning. Capitalism increasingly demonstrates it is capable of neither…
Food security: capitalism's neglect, workers' priority
The production and supply of safe, nutritious and affordable food is all our concern. Capitalism has no plan or vision to feed the people. How can workers in agriculture and elsewhere put this right?
Come and discuss. Email info@cpbml.org.uk for an invitation.
24 February 2024
British farmers are under attack from capitalism. They are starting to defend their industry – and our food supply. Without that we can’t be an independent nation.
Farmers are not impressed with losing 20 per cent of their land from food production, and protests have been growing.
21 February 2024
Scottish farmers have won a significant victory in their struggle for survival. They have secured continuing support for food production, halting the move to environmental payments.
British farmers are being ripped off by an industrial-scale country of origin fraud...
25 April 2023
Farmers Weekly has revealed that British farmers were being ripped off by a large-scale fraud, with huge quantities of foreign pork passed off as British.
27 February 2023
Capitalism can’t feed us. Shortages of tomatoes and salad vegetables are symptomatic of wider problems in farming.
27 February 2023
This informative, amusing book uses the history of the food we eat to illustrate the growth of global capital and the damage it does.
Food shortages and rising food prices have hit Britain. It need not have been that way – governments have squandered the opportunities in front of them…
18 May 2022
Fish and chips, once an affordable take-away meal, is becoming more and more expensive, underlining what’s wrong with Britain’s food policy.
Britain has come to rely on an underclass of migrant abattoir workers. And we’re all paying the price…
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen increased discussion of home food production. Encouragingly, some British food growers are thinking positively along the same lines…
Britain does have a National Fruit Collection at Brogdale in Kent – still the largest fruit collection in the world growing on one site.
How can an island with an ideal climate for growing food be so dependent on imports on the one hand, and have so many millions of its people living in food poverty on the other?
In a landmark book written before the coronavirus crisis, food policy expert Tim Lang argues the importance of food security…
7 June 2020
The people of Cuba have shown splendid commitment to national sovereignty and social justice. This books tells the tale of their struggle and sucesses.
Food safety and animal welfare concern or even alarm many of us. But the public debate is misleading at times. The EU has no more interest in animals than it does in workers…
Along with fishing, agriculture is set to be a big beneficiary of Britain’s leaving the EU. But that won’t happen without a collective determination to make it so…
British farmers should deliver an increasing proportion of the nation’s requirement for high quality, safe, affordable food.
Paying land owners for the amount of agricultural land they have is unjust, inefficient and drives perverse outcomes.
