'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, Guardian
Tim Lang is Professor of Food Policy at City University of London's Centre for Food Policy, which he founded in 1994 and directed until 2016. For four decades he has researched, written, advised and lectured on the food system at international, national and local levels, particularly in relation to health, environment, social justice, the political economy and consumer culture. He previously spent seven years as a hill farmer, an experience which shaped his work ever since.
Present discontents lend urgency to Lang's core message ...
Security matters, and that includes food security. Lang has
performed a public service.
*Sunday Times*
Forceful, illuminating, an ambitious manifesto ... The advent of
coronavirus has added timeliness to Lang's warning about the
fragility of our food supply.
*Evening Standard*
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.
*The Observer*
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.
*The Independent*
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.
*Financial Times*
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.
*Daily Telegraph*
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".
*The Guardian*
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