Sustain advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, promote equity and enrich society and culture.

One of the current projects is the Children's Food Campaign

November 2007
Follow this link for a list of all current campaigns, the campaign "Stop selling sex with fries" featuring heavily at the moment.

October 2007
On Wednesday the much trailed Foresight report on obesity will be published.  Media reports suggest this will show that unless we act the majority of adults and half of boys will be clinically obese by 2050 - costing the nation £45 billion a year. Sustain have been working on a pamphlet by campaign supporters setting out the true cost of the obesity crisis.  Given the much higher than anticipated media interest in Foresight yesterday and today we have rushed this out today.  The pamphlet and our press release can be found here.

September 2007 - the latest campaign focuses on banning harmful artificial additives in children's food.

"35 organisations tell FSA: ban these harmful additives" is an open letter from 35 organisations that have attacked the Food Standard's Agency for failing to put consumers first and protect children's health from artificial food additives.

This topic has also been taken up in the news and by Peter Melchett in The Guardian

Latest press release (04/06/2007)   -   Harriet Harman joins celebrities and experts in new campaign to protect children from junk food adverts

The Children’s Food Campaign’s response to the consultation on the Secondary Curriculum Review - pdf file

A key plank of work for the Children's Food Campaign this year is to try to get cooking as a compulsory part of the curriculum, so that every child leaves school able to cook a simple meal. The case for teaching all children to cook is very strong.  A lack of cooking skills is increasingly quoted and one of the major reasons for the poor state of children's diet.  The Government's current proposal of voluntary cooking lessons for children are welcome but not sufficient.  Voluntary lessons will tend to be most popular with pupils who already value food skills highly enough to attend non-compulsory lessons.  These will be the children who, if no school-based cookery lessons are available, would probably be motivated to learn to cook at home.  The nature of such voluntary lessons is thus that they will not attract those who currently have no inclination to learn cookery.