Eating Better

Eating Better is a movement for change of sixty organisations working to accelerate the transition from producing and eating too much meat and dairy to a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system that is better for animal welfare and for nature.

Better By Half Roadmap

The ‘Better By Half’ roadmap identifies 24 actions across five influential sectors, where change needs to happen to ensure everyone has access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food.

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Producing and Serving Better Dairy: Mossgiel farm and East Ayrshire Council

Mossgiel Organic Farm are working with East Ayrshire Council to supply fresh organic milk to all 40 local schools.

Eating Better: Embedding sustainable food education in the curriculum

In this lesson at the Hackney School of Food, children learn how they can take vegetables from plant to plate, making nutritious plant-based meals and showing food education in action.

Serving Better: More plants, 'less and better' meat at Winchester University

We filmed at Winchester University where “less and better” meat and dairy and more plants on menus is helping reduce emissions and ensure staff and students are eating better.

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Five essential skills for collaboration

Eating Better together with Healthy Food Healthy Planet hosted a panel at the international Extinction or Regeneration conference with representatives from Italy, Spain, Poland to hear experiences of civil society collaboration across Europe.

Nurturing food system collaboration across Europe

Ahead of the international Extinction or Regeneration conference, to which Eating Better was a partner, we invited representatives from 7 European countries to share and learn from each other, nurture relationships and explore successes and challenges.

Plant and Share Month 2023

Plant and Share Month has become a much-loved staple of the springtime calendar running from 22nd April to 20th May 2023. The campaign, run by Eating Better alliance member Soil Association’s Food for Life programme, grew from a desire to make growing plants and food accessible and easy to learn about, bringing together communities up and down the country to grow together. During a cost of living crisis that has seen supplies of fruit and vegetables dwindle in the supermarkets and the cost of meat and dairy rising, growing your own herbs, salads and vegetables can be a great way of eating healthily and sustainably.

Reducing waste: Food, land and water

Stop Food Waste Day aims to highlight how valuable food is and how reducing waste can save money, time and the environment. The UK alone produces around 6.6 million tonnes of waste a year just at the household level, accounting for 25 million tonnes of CO2 emissions - 5.4% of the UK’s overall emissions.