Time to throw off ‘nanny state’ fears
A joint AFN Network+ and Food, Farming and Countryside Commission webinar on what UK citizens really want from food
7th May 2025
A joint AFN Network+ and Food, Farming and Countryside Commission webinar on what UK citizens really want from food
7th May 2025
Following the publication of the final #TheFoodConversation report and the Citizen Manifesto to Fix Food, FFCC’s Mhairi Brown joined AFN Network+’s Jez Fredenburgh to discuss the key findings of #TheFoodConversation - including why many citizens feel that "nanny state" claims are an excuse that stalls positive food system change.
As Big Food continues to profit from poor health, citizens are fed up of a system that they see as unfairly skewed towards corporate power. They want government to implement joined-up policy to rebalance the scales in favour of public and planetary health. Mhairi shares their demands, as well as the logistics of the process, and more in this fascinating webinar.
Watch in full below.
