C.L.E.A.R. is the Consortium for Labelling for the Environment, Animal welfare, and Regenerative farming. Method-of-production | Farm & production level data.
We really need to all pull together to make sure we have honest and transparent food labelling that starts from the farm up and not the top down. We are in such danger of eco labels pushing us to more industrial farming. Join clearfoodlabel.uk to show your support.
It's no coincidence that industrial livestock and ultra-processing are simultaneously becoming more prevalent in the UK. Both are symptomatic of the corporate capture of our food system. They are two sides of the same coin.
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Eco labels are fast coming down the line and they could lead to a greater lack of transparency and not more. We need farmers and consumers to get behind us to ensure we have proper farm led data in our food labels. thegrocer.co.uk/sustainabili…@SusFoodTrust@ciwf@UKSustain@WWF
Eco labels are fast coming down the line and they could lead to a greater lack of transparency and not more. We need farmers and consumers to get behind us to ensure we have proper farm led data in our food labels. thegrocer.co.uk/sustainabili…@SusFoodTrust@ciwf@UKSustain@WWF
We are very concerned that proposals on eco labelling will serve the interests of large food manufacturers more than the environment, wildlife, biodiversity and our own health. We have written to the Secretary of State clearfoodlabeluk.org/ with @SusFoodTrust@ciwf@UKSustain
This week we saw @Channel4 and @AdeAdepitan do some seriously inaccurate reporting on the UK beef industry. Food labelling must make it clear that farming can take so many forms, some is bad but much is very good. youtube.com/watch?v=M3X-_Bqs…
Love avocados? Listen to our podcast clearfoodlabeluk.org/listen with @hmeldridge on her new book "The Avocado debate". Great insight to our complicated food systems.
We're told that whole grains are good for us but there's no legal definition of what proportion of whole grains a product contains for it to make a claim.
Check out our podcast series for a deep dive into issues such as this.
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Until we have legislation for a more robust system consumers will be deliberately mislead by the industry.
'Reduced sugar' foods can still be incredibly high in sugar. We think this is misleading.
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We have to crack collecting data from farms right through the processing system for real transparency and choice on all foods @CLEARCampaign1 is working to ensure mandatory method of production labelling on all foods at all points of sale.
Great to be able to listen in full on the podcast and a brilliant question from @BenMakowiecki of @LloydsBank about the importance of gathering initial baseline data to enable outcomes of ELMs to to be measured and monitored and asking who should pay @FarmersWeekly
Click on the link to read @footprintmedia's report on 'How environmental #data is greening supply chains and empowering the public' read our insights and key messages from other eco-labelling stakeholders. #foodsystem#transparency#ecolabelling
Great news to see the first briefing session for @APG_Agroecology take place with our Chair @romshedfarm speaking to the importance of labelling and agroecology.
Last week, Parliamentarians for Agroecology held their first in-person briefing session for MPs and Peers in the House of Lords, titled: 'Agroecology and the Farming Transition - agroecological farming models and how agroecology works with ELMS' #P4A
"To avoid the commercialisation of regenerative farming, we need a holistic measure of the impacts we're having on the land and human health" - Sarah Compson @soilassociation points to the work of Soil Association Exchange
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