This may seem small but its symptomatic of a huge problem facing all plastic packaging today. Designing something for recycling is only one small step towards ensuring it's actually recycled.

yes, we should tax unhealthy foods - make UPF corps pay for the harm they knowingly cause theguardian.com/society/articl…

Another incredibly helpful resource from the UNICEF nutrition team on countering industry arguments, which so often stymie Code implementation in many countries. Check it out below 👇

We often pretend that what poor people in the developing world are lacking is “knowledge” when in fact what they are lacking is 💰 😳

Industrial animal farming is polluting our rivers. Enough already. Soil Association will be joining March for Clean Water with RiverActionUK on October 26th. - join us! 👉 marchforcleanwater.org

Our letter in ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ today highlighting the importance of evidence base in psychiatry when treating mental illness Glad to see ⁦Prof Miranda Wolpert⁩ also responded. ⁦Professor Tamsin Ford 💙⁩ ⁦Wendy Burn CBE (She/her)⁩

If the UK adopted organic-style nature-friendly farming, phased out industrial livestock and made space for wildlife to thrive (yes please) then ruminant animals would play STARRING roles but meat/dairy consumption would need to drop 50-70%. Big challenge! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

McDonald's to open 200 new restaurants in growth drive bbc.in/4dw7O6h

industrial farming is soo grim it's actually insane anyone argues against eating less meat theguardian.com/world/article/…

Totally . Decisions from an MDT or an un named person entirely. Collapsing in plain sight

INDEPENDENCE MATTERS. declarations of interest are not enough . free access, me in the Guardian Opinion ; theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Behind the scenes on the 2024 #XmasLectures photoshoot 👀 It's been almost 2 weeks since we announced Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 as our 2024 Christmas Lecturer. Here's a glimpse of how we created this year's photos 👇 It was a VERY fun day 😊

Our paper in the The Lancet "Financialisation: a 21st century commercial determinant of health equity" Action is needed to ensure financial systems promote health, social equity and the environment. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Multinationals such as Danone and Nestlé are profiting from the manufacture of ultra-processed foods while simultaneously investing in products to counter their effects, such as weight-loss drugs and medical food for diabetics. Obesity as a business model. ftm.eu/articles/obesi…

History repeats...tobacco industry invests in UPF corporations (Kraft, General Foods, Bird’s Eye, Nabisco, Oreos), 25 years ago when the science had caught up with them....new threats, new markets....

Thanks so much to Kate Dun Campbell for leading us on this NIHR Three Schools funded review on the commercial determinants of mental ill health in PLOS Global Public Health Commercial Determinants Research Group at LSHTM Global Health Policy Unit May van Schalkwyk Mark Petticrew #CDoH journals.plos.org/globalpubliche… Monika Kosinska gauden

The Royal Society David Attenborough Award and Lecture is awarded to Professor Hannah Fry for her prolific science communication activity as the foremost populariser of maths in the country who continues to inspire young people to pursue maths and physics in fun and exciting

It's about this time when the #XmasLectures begin to feel very real 😱 Great to have Chris van Tulleken 🏳️‍🌈 on site yesterday and continue our work in developing this year's lectures.

Today @sheiladillon is in search of some fresh food policy ideas with some new MPs. Will there be any consensus on what needs doing? We are on air at 11am on BBC Radio 4 with Simon Opher MP Aphra Brandreth Sarah Dyke MP 🔶 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…