Select Committee on Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minutes of Evidence

Further supplementary memorandum submitted by Sustain (A8(b))

LIST OF MEMBERS ORGANISATIONS WITH A PART OR WHOLE INTEREST IN FOOD AND FARMING

Arid Lands Initiative Association of Public Analysts Association of School Health Eduction of School Health Education Co-ordinators Association of Unpasteurised Milk Producers Baby Milk Action Bio-Dynamic Agricultural Association British Association for the Study of Community   Dentistry British Dental Association British Dietetic Association British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group Butterfly Conservation Campaign for Real Ale Caroline Walker Trust Catholic Institute for International Relations Centre for Food Policy Child Poverty Action Group Children's Society Common Ground Commonwork Land Trust Community Nutrition Group Compassion in World Farming Consensus Action on Salt and Hypertension Council for the Protection of Rural England Design & Technology Association Diabetes UK East Anglia Food Link Ecological Foundation Ecologist Elm Farm Research Centre Family Farmers' Association Farm Retail Association Farmers Link Federation of City Farms and Community   Gardens Food Additives Campaign Team Food Commission Foundation for Local Food Initiatives Friends of the Earth Gaia Foundation	Genetics Forum GMB (Britain's General Union) Green Network Guild of Food Writers HDRA—The Organic Organisation Health Education Trust HUSH: The UK E.Coli Support Group Hyperactive Children's Support Group Institute of Consumer Sciences Institute of European Environmental Policy,   London International Institute for Environment &   Development International Society for Ecology and Culture Land Heritage The Land is Ours Local Authorities Co-ordinating Body on Food   and Trading Standards (LACOTS) McCarrison Society National Consumer Federation National Council of Women National Oral Health Promotion Group National Farmers' Union National Federation of Women's Institutes New Economics Foundation Northern Ireland Chest, Heart and Stroke   Association Oral Health Promotion Research Group Permaculture Association Pesticides Action Network—UK Plantlife Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) Rural Agricultural and Allied Workers' Union
(TGWU) Society of Health Education and Health Promotion Specialists Soil Association UNISON Vegetarian Society World-Wide Opportunities on Organis Farms Women's Environmental Network Women's Food and Farming Union World Cancer Research Fund
Agricultural Christian Fellowship Allergy Alliance Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Christian Aid Consumer's Association Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians Food Foundation Health Development Agency Intermediate Technology Department Group Institute of Food Research Maternity Alliance	National Consumer Council National Heart Forum Royal Society for the Promotion of Health Scottish Consumer Council Socialst Health Association UK Food Group UK Public Health Association Vega Research Welsh Consumer Council Wildlife and Countryside Link Wildlife Trust Worldwide Fund for Nature
*Brundtland = This is shorthand for the definition outlined in the World Commission on environment and Development (chaired by Gro Harlem Brundtland) report of 1987. *Eating Oil: Food Supply in a changing climate, Sustain 2001.

 

  I have sent two copies of this report to the Clerk of the Committee. It covers many issues of relevance including the need to consider the resilience/security of our food supply and how we should look at shortening the food chain.

24 April 2002

 

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Prepared 30 May 2002