Foodrise - for climate, nature, justice

Foodrise - for climate, nature, justice We are transforming the food system for climate, nature, and justice.

Feedback is an environmental organisation that campaigns to end food waste at every level of the food system. We catalyse action to eliminate food waste globally, working with governments, international institutions, businesses, NGOs, grassroots organisations and the public to change society’s attitude toward wasting food. With a track record of changing the policies of some of the world's biggest

food companies and reaching out to millions of people through our projects, our innovative campaigning style has helped to elevate food waste from a non-issue several years ago to one now recognised as an urgent international priority. Our campaigns have existed since 2009 and have expanded to now include: Feeding the 5000, Gleaning Network, The Pig Idea, Stop Dumping and the FSE Network. Feedback is the charity that now governs these five campaigns, as well as our wider ongoing work influencing public attitudes, government policies and business strategies on food waste globally.

We're excited to be hosting an event at London Climate Action Week!✊🌍 Our event, 'Dismantling Corporate Power in Food Sy...
22/06/2026

We're excited to be hosting an event at London Climate Action Week!✊🌍

Our event, 'Dismantling Corporate Power in Food Systems, for Climate, Nature, and Justice' on Tuesday 23rd will be a celebratory get-together to explore how corporate control of the food system is driving climate injustice and how we can transition to a fairer food economy for all.

We're delighted to be hearing from Foodrise's Executive Director Carina Millstone, alongside our friends Sondhya Gupta (WildFish), Maya Pardo (Communities Against Factory Farming) and Nick Wells & Alice Markham from Organiclea who will be sharing reflections from across the movement and inspiring us all to action

We look forward to connecting with allies across the environmental, food and farming sectors and celebrating our collective achievements.

Watch this space for highlights from the event.

Shocking news: Tesco is selling us food contaminated with toxic 'forever chemicals'. "Dozens of Tesco's fish, dairy and...
19/06/2026

Shocking news: Tesco is selling us food contaminated with toxic 'forever chemicals'.

"Dozens of Tesco's fish, dairy and meat products have been found to contain chemicals linked to liver problems and cancer, according to an 'alarming' new analysis" in DailyMail

Our study in collaboration with the University of Birmingham tested a range of meat, dairy and fish products from Tesco, and found that EVERY SINGLE ONE contained forever chemicals.

As Foodrise's Executive Director, Carina Millstone says: "Tesco must stop profiteering on the back of the nation's health and take immediate steps to remove all forever chemicals from its products."

We need to ramp up the pressure and tell Tesco to do the right thing.

Take 2 minutes to email Tesco’s CEO Ken Murphy using our template and stand up for your right to safe food: https://action.foodrise.org.uk/page/191262/action/1?ea.tracking.id=fb-post

Read more in the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.com/health/article-15908011/forever-chemicals-Tesco-fish-dairy-meat.html

📢 Tell Tesco to stop selling us ‘forever chemicals’ We’ve just discovered that Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket, is...
18/06/2026

📢 Tell Tesco to stop selling us ‘forever chemicals’

We’ve just discovered that Tesco, the UK’s biggest supermarket, is selling us food containing toxic PFAS, also known as forever chemicals.

PFAS are toxic substances which don’t break down naturally and can accumulate in our bodies, linked to serious health risks including cancers, immune suppression, infertility and developmental problems.

We commissioned the University of Birmingham to test a range of meat, dairy and fish products from Tesco, and shockingly, found that EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM contained forever chemicals.

This means that Tesco, which makes BILLIONS in profit every year, is selling us - knowingly or unknowingly - toxic food products.

This is a scandal.

That's why we need you, and as many others as possible, to demand that Tesco urgently reviews its food safety standards and commits to eradicating harmful PFAS from its products.

Today is Tesco's Annual General Meeting (AGM) - the day for shareholders to voice concerns and hold the supermarket giant accountable. There's no better time to get their attention.

Take 2 minutes to email Tesco’s CEO Ken Murphy using our template and stand up for your right to safe food: https://action.foodrise.org.uk/page/191262/action/1?ea.tracking.id=fb-post

From its beginnings as a Foodrise project, Alchemic Kitchen is stepping into an exciting new chapter as an independent C...
15/06/2026

From its beginnings as a Foodrise project, Alchemic Kitchen is stepping into an exciting new chapter as an independent CIC!

Alchemic Kitchen began in 2018 as a development kitchen in Merseyside, transforming surplus fruit and vegetables into jams, chutneys and ketchups to reduce food waste.

Today, Alchemic Kitchen is an action-led social enterprise working with communities and individuals to improve food access, create opportunities for knowledge exchange, and advocate for better food systems that support people and the planet.

In our latest blog, we reflect on Alchemic Kitchen’s story from its beginnings to the variety of ways it is now working to transform our food system: the Queen of Greens mobile greengrocer which provides fresh fruit and vegetables to ‘food deserts’, Disco Chop events that produce meals out of vegetables that would otherwise be wasted, Apple gleaning at Speke Hall, and advocacy through research and building partnerships.

Find out more: https://foodrise.org.uk/celebrating-alchemic-kitchen-cic/

Stay up to date with the latest work at Alchemic Kitchen: https://www.alchemickitchen.org/

We’re going to court tomorrow to support the right to access environmental justice! This hearing at the Supreme Court wi...
10/06/2026

We’re going to court tomorrow to support the right to access environmental justice!

This hearing at the Supreme Court will decide whether environmental cases like ours can proceed at all.

We legally challenged the government’s UK-Australia Trade Deal over its climate impacts in 2023 and were originally granted the Aarhus Convention cost cap - a safeguard that keeps environmental cases affordable.

But the government successfully appealed that protection, arguing our case isn’t ‘environmental’, despite us explicitly bringing the case on climate grounds.

If the ruling stands, we lose the cost cap entirely and our case can’t go ahead.

The Court of Appeal's decision has narrowed what counts as an environmental case in law, setting a precedent that could make future environmental cases harder, riskier and more expensive.

That’s why we’re appealing the decision in the Supreme Court.

Join us outside the Supreme Court in Parliament Square at 9am tomorrow to show your support: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rally-for-environmental-justice-join-us-at-the-supreme-court-tickets-1990764221376

Stay tuned for more updates from the court.

📢 Big polluters are trying to undermine action on methane so they can continue profiting from pollution.Methane is one o...
21/05/2026

📢 Big polluters are trying to undermine action on methane so they can continue profiting from pollution.

Methane is one of the main greenhouse gases driving climate breakdown. Scientists are clear that we must urgently cut methane pollution to avoid catastrophic warming. 💨

But polluting industries are pushing a dangerous narrative that they should only have to stabilise their global warming impact at current harmful levels, not actually reduce it.
In other words, they’re saying: “we polluted in the past, so we should have a right to pollute in the future”.

This dangerous idea – known as “no additional warming” or “temperature neutrality” – is already being used to weaken climate targets. New Zealand has already cut its methane reduction targets in half using this logic, and Ireland is considering following suit.

Thankfully scientists are pushing back. 42 leading scientists, including 11 IPCC authors and the scientist behind the famous “hockey stick” climate graph, are calling on governments around the world to reject this dangerous approach.

We stand with the scientists. “No additional warming” is not climate action, it’s a license for big polluters to carry on polluting and should be rejected.

Read the coverage in The Irish Times here: https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2026/05/21/international-scientists-plead-with-ireland-not-to-adopt-controversial-greenhouse-gas-assessment-method/

See the scientist statement here: https://methanescience.org/

We've just submitted a complaint against Yara – one of the world’s biggest nitrogen fertiliser producers – for its uneth...
18/05/2026

We've just submitted a complaint against Yara – one of the world’s biggest nitrogen fertiliser producers – for its unethical and climate-wrecking practices.

Yara is a major contributor to the overproduction of nitrogen fertiliser – which is driving significant social and environmental harm: contaminating waterways, destroying biodiversity, degrading soil health and generating nitrous oxide (a greenhouse gas around 300 times more potent than CO2).

Despite knowing the harm, Yara is misleading customers and greenwashing to continue to profit from pollution.

And as Foodrise senior campaigner Sunita Ramani tells Sustainable Views: “Corporations including Yara have promoted the false idea that synthetic nitrogen fertilisers are essential to feed the world, when in fact they fail it. Only by regulating — and ultimately shrinking — the nitrogen fertiliser industry, can we safeguard our food system from shocks.”

That's why we’ve submitted an OECD complaint against Yara, for failing to act as a responsible business and in the best interests of the environment.

We can’t let our food system be run by corporations.

Find out more: https://www.sustainableviews.com/is-the-iran-war-the-trigger-for-the-decline-of-the-wests-food-system-67e30fd0/?accessToken=7b390684-8f38-4f19-a20b-40d3e7e4c42a&utm_campaign=gift-article

A new chapter for gleaning! 🌱 Since 2012, gleaning has grown from a small Foodrise-led initiative into a thriving, commu...
15/05/2026

A new chapter for gleaning! 🌱

Since 2012, gleaning has grown from a small Foodrise-led initiative into a thriving, community-driven movement helping good food reach people instead of going to waste.

The Gleaning Network revived the ancient practice where volunteers harvest surplus crops left in fields and redirect them to community food and food aid organisations.

One of those early volunteers was Ren, now Foodrise’s Gleaning Network Project manager, who has spent the last year supporting six incredible gleaning groups across England through the Defra-funded ‘Ready, Steady, Glean’ project.

The impact has been huge:
🥕 80.2 tonnes of surplus produce rescued
🍽️ Over 1 MILLION portions of food provided
💷 £95,267 worth of produce redistributed
🌍 53,752kg of greenhouse gas emissions prevented

This food has reached social supermarkets, school kitchens, community meals and local food projects, as well as being shared among volunteers.

A huge shoutout to the six groups who rose to the challenge: Still Good Food (Suffolk), Avon Gleaning, Khepera (Buckinghamshire), Sussex Surplus, Alchemic Kitchen (Merseyside) and Deal With It (Kent).

We’ve always been clear that gleaning is not a solution to poverty. It should not replace a fair food system where farmers are paid properly, and everyone can access nutritious food.

But gleaning is a powerful way to bring people together, spark conversations, raise awareness, and offer a meaningful way for people to take action around farm-level surplus.

While this chapter of the Gleaning Network is closing, the future of gleaning is firmly in the hands of groups and communities across the UK who are stronger than ever.

Find out more: https://foodrise.org.uk/a-new-chapter-for-gleaning

We're extremely excited to have been shortlisted for the SMK National Campaigner Awards 2026 in the Best Use of Law cate...
14/05/2026

We're extremely excited to have been shortlisted for the SMK National Campaigner Awards 2026 in the Best Use of Law category!

Each year, the Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) celebrates the best campaigns and campaigners. This year, our Methwold vs the Megafarm campaign in collaboration with Sustain has been shortlisted for the awards.

Foodrise and Sustain worked closely alongside frontline communities including local resident Jan Palmer to successfully stop one of Europe’s largest proposed megafarms, which would have housed over one million pigs and chickens in Methwold, Norfolk. We achieved this by applying the precedent set by the Supreme Court’s 2024 Finch decision, regarding the indirect climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction, to the livestock sector for the first time.

Our landmark win marks a turning point in the decline of intensive livestock production in the UK, and sets a powerful precedent for others to use the law to challenge factory farms on climate grounds and has already inspired further action.

Foodrise’s Natasha Hurley says, “We will now shine a spotlight on the unlawful behaviour of the wider industry, use the precedent to help other communities, and ultimately make it as hard as possible to build new megafarms.”

A huge thanks to the thousands of you took action by responding to the consultation, the Methwold community, Cornerstone Barristers, AGtivist, WWF, Network for Social Change, and Environmental Funders Network.

Read the story of the campaign here: https://smk.org.uk/awards_nominations/methwold-vs-the-megafarm/

Stay tuned for the final announcement on 11th June.

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