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Exciting opportunity to join our campaigns team!

We’re looking for a campaigner to support the development and delivery of our bold and exciting campaigns that drive positive change across our food system.

Deadline: 9am 30th March 2026.

Please share! foodrise.org.uk/job/campaigner

💪 In Liverpool & Merseyside, people are building their own solutions to get good food to communities.

➡️Find the report & film here: ffcc.co.uk/liverpool-me...

@lpoolcouncil.bsky.social @lpoolcityregion.bsky.social @kindlingtrust.bsky.social @alchemickitchen.bsky.social @lucyantal.bsky.social

Press release - Government faces legal challenge on £90 million subsidy for cheap sugar - Foodrise The government is being forced to defend a new trade measure which will flood the country with cheap sugar – using taxpayers’ money to undermine its commitments on climate and public health. Legal pro...

It is astonishing that the government has introduced this trade measure allowing tariff-free sugar imports. This trade deal is detrimental to public and environmental health and uses taxpayer money to undermine both.

Learn more from @foodrise.bsky.social 👇
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🙌 We’re proud to be joining over 100 major UK retailers, food businesses, investors, health organisations, food and farming NGOs and academics, calling on the UK Government to introduce a Good Food Bill.

The time is now to #FixFoodForGood

Find out more: www.sustainweb.org/news/feb26-g...

The environmental devastation, animal welfare and health harms driven by industrial meat production are no longer up for debate. So why does the EU continue to prop up this backwards industry? It’s time for policymakers to make better, bolder decisions on food and farming.

CAP at the Crossroads - Reforming EU CAP subsidies to support healthy sustainable diets - Foodrise CAP at the Crossroads: Reforming EU CAP subsidies to support healthy sustainable diets, a new report from Foodrise, reveals the scale of EU common agricultural policy (CAP) subsidies directed to meat ...

The EU spends hundreds of times more public money on high-emissions beef & dairy than legumes & nuts through its agricultural subsidies.

For example, beef & lamb received ~580x more than lentils & beans, according to new figures published by @foodrise.bsky.social: foodrise.org.uk/CAPCrossroads/

A tax break for imported sugar isn’t sweet for the public health or the environment This post is by Ali Hines, sugar campaigner at Foodrise A significant decision passed largely unnoticed in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ hotly anticipated autumn budget. She announced that the autonomo…

👀 Fascinating new @foodrise.bsky.social blog - with the Autumn Budget quietly boosting the UK's access to cheap sugar, its become clear that if we're serious about protecting health then trade and public health policies must better align - rather than contradict.

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Beef and lamb get 580 times more in EU subsidies than legumes, study finds Report says common agricultural policy provides ‘unfair’ levels of support to unhealthy, meat-heavy diets

“It’s scandalous that billions of euros of EU taxpayer money is being used to prop up a high-emissions industry at a time when scientists are telling us that we need – on health & environmental grounds – to shift to lower-meat diets”
say @foodrise.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

REVEALED: The EU spends hundreds of times more public money on high-emissions beef and dairy than legumes and nuts through its common agricultural policy (CAP) subsidies, according to new figures published today by Foodrise.

Read the new report: foodrise.org.uk/CAPCrossroads/

Britain’s largest salmon farm has just been approved in Shetland - which would contain up to 6,000 tonnes of salmon at any one time.

This is a shocking decision that puts corporate profit above all else: animals welfare, local ecosystems and communities.

www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/news/council...

A tax break for imported sugar isn’t sweet for the public health or the environment This post is by Ali Hines, sugar campaigner at Foodrise

The autumn budget saw a trade measure renewed that allows raw cane sugar to be imported into the UK tariff-free.

Ali Hines @foodrise.bsky.social spotlights how this move contradicts the government’s strengthening of the soft drinks industry levy and detriments the environment and public health.

Amsterdam Defies Last-Minute Lobbying to Become First Capital City to Ban Fossil Fuel Ads Amsterdam city council has passed a legally binding ban on advertising for fossil fuels and meat products across public spaces in the city, becoming the first capital in the world to prohibit such ads...

🙌 Major climate win! 

Amsterdam has become the first capital in the world to legally ban meat and fossil fuel advertising.

🌍 More than 50 cities worldwide have now pledged to ban the advertising of fossil fuels.

www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/a...

🌱 Do you want up to three acres of land to farm?

Grow More Growers is looking for new growers to match with landholders in Buckinghamshire and East Oxfordshire to help establish small-scale commercial veg enterprises.

Find out more and apply now: www.growmoregrowers.org

ORFC 2026 In-Person Programme ORFC 2026 8 – 9 Jan

How can we use the law to stop environment-wrecking megafarms? This is the question we'll be exploring at #ORFC2026...

Don't miss our panel, Using the Law for better farming and a cleaner environment, on Friday 9th at 9-10:20am (Jesus College, Ship Street, Lecture Theatre).

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Don’t miss us at ORFC this week!

Join our panel to explore how the law can be used to deliver a food system that works for people and the planet.

📍 Friday 9th at 9am, Jesus College, Ship Street Lecture Theatre orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-in...

Food production no longer profitable for English farms, says review Nearly a third of businesses were lossmaking last year as rising costs and volatile weather hit household income

Food production no longer profitable for English farms, says review ft.trib.al/0ertCTS

🚨 When the tech fails – thousands of fish die.

Since 2020, there have been at least 17 major mass mortality events in land-based fish production facilities around the world.

Find out more about the dark reality of land-based factory fish farming: foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-...

How can we utilise the law for better farming and a cleaner environment?

That’s the question we’ll be exploring during our panel at the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2026. Join us!

When? Friday 9th at 9am
Where? Jesus College Ship Street - Lecture theatre

orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-in... #ORFC

Four reasons why land-based salmon factory farms should be banned This post is by Amelia Cookson, industrial aquaculture campaigner at Foodrise in the UK. When you hear the words ‘salmon farming’, what comes to mind? Perhaps an open-net sea cage in coastal waters…

"It’s factory farming at its worst and it has no place in our food system."

🎏 Amelia Cookson, industrial aquaculture campaigner at @foodrise.bsky.social, explains how salmon farming is moving onto land and why these land-based factory farms should be banned⤵️

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The world’s largest salmon producer Mowi stands accused of a charm offensive in the Scottish Highlands that distracts from its “polluting, smelly and invasive” fish farms, say local residents and fishers, in what used to be “pristine” Highlands lochs.

with @desmog.com

🚫 6 reasons governments must ban land-based salmon

Land-based salmon farming isn’t the future, it’s factory farming underwater. A dystopian, resource-hungry experiment that’s already failing around the world.

Here’s why it must be stopped before it takes hold: foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-...

Four reasons why land-based salmon factory farms should be banned This post is by Amelia Cookson, industrial aquaculture campaigner at Foodrise in the UK. When you hear the words ‘salmon farming’, what comes to mind? Perhaps an open-net sea cage in coastal waters…

Salmon farming is moving onto land – and it's a disaster.

Our new guest blog for the Green Alliance explains why land-based salmon farming brings a new wave of environmental harm and animal suffering.

Read now: greenallianceblog.org.uk/2025/12/11/f... #LandBasesSalmon #FactoryFishFarming

The expansion of land-based facilities will only deepen salmon production’s existing impacts, driving demand for wild-caught fish for feed and triggering other harms on the environment, wildlife, animal welfare and communities.

Fish out of water - Pulling the plug on land-based salmon factory farms - Foodrise Foodrise and Seastemik have published a stark new policy briefing Fish out of water: Pulling the plug on land-based salmon factory farms – calling for governments to ban land-based salmon production. ...

Another really excellent report out from @foodrise.bsky.social and Seastemik on why land-based salmon farming is a really bad idea

foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-...

Illustration of dead salmon in supermarket trolly. Text: It's time to band land-based salmon factory farming. 21 organisation logos.

The good news? No land-based salmon farms operate in the UK – yet.

A global movement is rising to #PullThePlug and stop this destructive industry before it becomes the new normal.

Read the full briefing: foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-...

#FishOutOfWater #StopFactoryFish #SalmonDontBelong

Illustration of salmon inside big crammed fish tank. Text: The reality behind the tanks: Barren, overcrowded tanks. Mass die-offs. Huge energy and water use.

Land-based salmon farming is an environmental and ethical disaster:
⚠️ Drains the ocean of wild fish, stolen from coastal communities for salmon feed
⚠️ Devours water and energy
⚠️ Risky tech with frequent failures, pollution, mass die-offs
⚠️ Causes suffering on an industrial scale

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Illustration for land-based salmon factory. Text: Around the world, corporations are building factory fish farms. Sterile tanks on land, where salmon swim under artificial light inside warehouses.

What is land-based salmon? It’s industrial fish farming in tanks.

Salmon – born to swim through rivers and seas – are now crammed into sterile tanks under artificial lights inside factories.

From wild rivers to prison tanks. It’s absurd and cruel. (2/5)

Hand holding salmon in cage. Text: Salmon don't belong on land.

🚨 Land-based salmon is the next brutal frontier of factory farming

Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.

Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)

This week, we've been celebrating our landmark wins that you helped make possible:
✅ Stopped a giant factory farm
✅ Secured a landmark EU food-waste law
✅ Strengthened food justice

Now there’s just 48 hours left to turn that momentum into even bigger change: donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Nitrogen fertiliser corporations do not feed the world, they fail it. For too long, they have put their profits before our Earth and our food.

We need governments to set real nitrogen reduction targets to stop this harmful industry exhausting our earth.

foodrise.org.uk/exhausted-ea... (5/5)