Stuart Gillespie
@stuartgillespie.bsky.social
Nutrition, food justice, health, cycling | writer, freelance
Non-res senior fellow, IFPRI | hon associate IDS
FOOD FIGHT https://canongate.co.uk/books/5139-food-fight-from-plunder-and-profit-to-people-and-planet/
SUBSTACK: stuartgillespie.substack.com
Non-res senior fellow, IFPRI | hon associate IDS
FOOD FIGHT https://canongate.co.uk/books/5139-food-fight-from-plunder-and-profit-to-people-and-planet/
SUBSTACK: stuartgillespie.substack.com
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Food Fight by Stuart Gillespie | Buy the Book
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'FOOD FIGHT' shows how our food system has warped into something that's making us (and our planet) sick.
But its main focus is on how to turn things around.
Out in April 2025 but open for pre-order here:
buythebook.online/foodfight
But its main focus is on how to turn things around.
Out in April 2025 but open for pre-order here:
buythebook.online/foodfight
If you're in Brussels on Saturday and feel like a book-browse and chat, drop in to @waterstones.bsky.social !
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
Book signing - Stuart Gillespie | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Book signing - Stuart Gillespie today.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
If you're in Brussels on Saturday and feel like a book-browse and chat, drop in to @waterstones.bsky.social !
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
Livelier than usual outside our place tonight
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Livelier than usual outside our place tonight
Turning points in food histories
The diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/turning-po...
The diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/turning-po...
Turning points in food histories
Diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage
stuartgillespie.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Turning points in food histories
The diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/turning-po...
The diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/turning-po...
Enjoyed this chat with Philipp Blom the other day
Bear with it...we do get to solutions eventually!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6rA...
Bear with it...we do get to solutions eventually!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6rA...
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Enjoyed this chat with Philipp Blom the other day
Bear with it...we do get to solutions eventually!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6rA...
Bear with it...we do get to solutions eventually!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6rA...
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
Fixing Food Systems Will Take More than Good Intentions - V sensible thoughts from IPES-Food heavyweights Shalmali Guttal, Sofia Monsalve and Pat Mooney foodtank.com/news/2025/10...
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Fixing Food Systems Will Take More than Good Intentions - V sensible thoughts from IPES-Food heavyweights Shalmali Guttal, Sofia Monsalve and Pat Mooney foodtank.com/news/2025/10...
This excellent book brilliantly captures the breadth of the health challenge – with chapters on diet, exercise, mental health, transport, water, clean air, gun control, smoking, health care systems – while deep-diving into the detail of both problems and solutions.
@profdevisridhar.bsky.social
@profdevisridhar.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This excellent book brilliantly captures the breadth of the health challenge – with chapters on diet, exercise, mental health, transport, water, clean air, gun control, smoking, health care systems – while deep-diving into the detail of both problems and solutions.
@profdevisridhar.bsky.social
@profdevisridhar.bsky.social
If you're wandering around Brussels on Saturday 15 November and feel like a book-browse and chat, drop in to @waterstones.bsky.social !
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
Book signing - Stuart Gillespie | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Book signing - Stuart Gillespie today.
www.waterstones.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If you're wandering around Brussels on Saturday 15 November and feel like a book-browse and chat, drop in to @waterstones.bsky.social !
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...
Is social media just...boring now?
Social media is destroying democracy and accelerating idiocracy. But it's also just...really, really boring.
www.forkingpaths.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨
⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy.
❤️🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck.
Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25
⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy.
❤️🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck.
Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 AM
🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨
⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy.
❤️🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck.
Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25
⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy.
❤️🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck.
Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
Are you ready for a Food Fight? OAS Interim Head, Robin Ireland, provides his views of @stuartgillespie.bsky.social's excellent new book.
www.obesityactionscotland.org/blogs/food-f...
www.obesityactionscotland.org/blogs/food-f...
October 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Are you ready for a Food Fight? OAS Interim Head, Robin Ireland, provides his views of @stuartgillespie.bsky.social's excellent new book.
www.obesityactionscotland.org/blogs/food-f...
www.obesityactionscotland.org/blogs/food-f...
October 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
🔥new substack
My review of the excellent new book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social
Read it, get angry....then do something!
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/food-intel...
My review of the excellent new book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social
Read it, get angry....then do something!
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/food-intel...
Food Intelligence - a review
What's in it, what's it doing to us, how did this happen, what do we do next?
stuartgillespie.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🔥new substack
My review of the excellent new book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social
Read it, get angry....then do something!
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/food-intel...
My review of the excellent new book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social
Read it, get angry....then do something!
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/food-intel...
🔥new substack
My review of the excellent new book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social
Read it, get angry....then do something!
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/food-intel...
My review of the excellent new book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social
Read it, get angry....then do something!
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/food-intel...
Food Intelligence - a review
What's in it, what's it doing to us, how did this happen, what do we do next?
stuartgillespie.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🔥new substack
My review of the excellent new book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social
Read it, get angry....then do something!
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/food-intel...
My review of the excellent new book by @juliabelluz.bsky.social and @kevinh-phd.bsky.social
Read it, get angry....then do something!
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/food-intel...
Thanks...the main drivers of overeating are high energy density and hyperpalatability...made possible at scale, price,convenience by industrial processing. Plus...we just don't know of potential harms not mediated by weight gain. What we DO know is the food environment is unhealthy and can be fixed.
My new piece! 👇
Sure, UPFs Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? thewalrus.ca/sure-ultra-p... @thewalrus.ca
Oversimplifying nature of problem by creating one big bogeyman can cause harm. It can muddle our understanding of healthy eating, blame the wrong people, and pave the way for bad policies
Sure, UPFs Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? thewalrus.ca/sure-ultra-p... @thewalrus.ca
Oversimplifying nature of problem by creating one big bogeyman can cause harm. It can muddle our understanding of healthy eating, blame the wrong people, and pave the way for bad policies
Sure, Ultra-Processed Foods Are Bad. But How Does That Help Anyone? | The Walrus
Nutrition panic distracts from the policies that make healthy eating a privilege
thewalrus.ca
October 12, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Thanks...the main drivers of overeating are high energy density and hyperpalatability...made possible at scale, price,convenience by industrial processing. Plus...we just don't know of potential harms not mediated by weight gain. What we DO know is the food environment is unhealthy and can be fixed.
Fantastic fall reads for food, farming, future...phew!
"Exploring the intersection of food, farming, and cultural identity....each entry offers insights to help us preserve land, farming practices, and our relationship to natural resources in a changing environment."
foodtank.com/news/2025/10...
"Exploring the intersection of food, farming, and cultural identity....each entry offers insights to help us preserve land, farming practices, and our relationship to natural resources in a changing environment."
foodtank.com/news/2025/10...
Your Fall Reading List for a Better Food Future
Covering everything from soil to supper, these 26 inspiring books on food, farming, and climate are must-reads this fall.
foodtank.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Fantastic fall reads for food, farming, future...phew!
"Exploring the intersection of food, farming, and cultural identity....each entry offers insights to help us preserve land, farming practices, and our relationship to natural resources in a changing environment."
foodtank.com/news/2025/10...
"Exploring the intersection of food, farming, and cultural identity....each entry offers insights to help us preserve land, farming practices, and our relationship to natural resources in a changing environment."
foodtank.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it?
🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online)
Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs
🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...
🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online)
Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs
🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...
October 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
How did ultra-processed foods come to dominate what much of the world eats–and what can we do about it?
🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online)
Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs
🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...
🌍 Join the launch of The Lancet Series on UPFs & Human Health, 19 Nov (London + online)
Experts will unpack the science, policy & politics of UPFs
🔗 Register: www.fsp.usp.br/nupens/launc...
🔥'Just in time'
A planetary health diet for the real world, superintelligence and a cautionary tale of junk food
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/just-in-time
A planetary health diet for the real world, superintelligence and a cautionary tale of junk food
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/just-in-time
Just in time
A planetary health diet for the real world, superintelligence and a cautionary tale of junk food
stuartgillespie.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🔥'Just in time'
A planetary health diet for the real world, superintelligence and a cautionary tale of junk food
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/just-in-time
A planetary health diet for the real world, superintelligence and a cautionary tale of junk food
stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/just-in-time
Thanks for the review! To respond on a couple of comments and not wanting to quibble...yes, smallholders are key but this book was about tackling corporate capture and power imbalances. 'Anti-business' is over-simplistic...it's as much anti-politicians who fail to rein in corporate power. But 🙏 !
Book review 📚 Power and profit drive what we eat: here’s why the food system needs a revolution
go.nature.com/4nTorgO
go.nature.com/4nTorgO
Power and profit drive what we eat: here’s why the food system needs a revolution
Decades of corporate control have shaped diets, harmed farmers and strained the planet — transforming the system will take collective action.
go.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Thanks for the review! To respond on a couple of comments and not wanting to quibble...yes, smallholders are key but this book was about tackling corporate capture and power imbalances. 'Anti-business' is over-simplistic...it's as much anti-politicians who fail to rein in corporate power. But 🙏 !
Enjoyed this chat with @kcrwevan.bsky.social
www.kcrw.com/stories/chef...
(from 24m)
Good Food explores the world through the lens of food....from food politics to the science behind cooking, highlighting a diverse community of cooks, farmers, entrepreneurs, historians and journalists @kcrw.com
www.kcrw.com/stories/chef...
(from 24m)
Good Food explores the world through the lens of food....from food politics to the science behind cooking, highlighting a diverse community of cooks, farmers, entrepreneurs, historians and journalists @kcrw.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Enjoyed this chat with @kcrwevan.bsky.social
www.kcrw.com/stories/chef...
(from 24m)
Good Food explores the world through the lens of food....from food politics to the science behind cooking, highlighting a diverse community of cooks, farmers, entrepreneurs, historians and journalists @kcrw.com
www.kcrw.com/stories/chef...
(from 24m)
Good Food explores the world through the lens of food....from food politics to the science behind cooking, highlighting a diverse community of cooks, farmers, entrepreneurs, historians and journalists @kcrw.com
Powerful piece of journalism by the brilliant Jeremy Bowen...for the first time (that I've seen) a clear, detailed analysis of how food is purposively used as bait to target desperate, starving (and extraordinarily brave) young adults in Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Killed seeking food - Jeremy Bowen on Abdullah's shooting and Gaza's lethal aid system
Inside Panorama and BBC Eye's investigation into hunger in Gaza and why so many are risking their lives for aid.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Powerful piece of journalism by the brilliant Jeremy Bowen...for the first time (that I've seen) a clear, detailed analysis of how food is purposively used as bait to target desperate, starving (and extraordinarily brave) young adults in Gaza
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The MAHA funnel...Big Wellness, conspiracy fantasies (not much theory involved) with their tell-tale keywords and how to respond.
Great @nytimes.com video opinion
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Great @nytimes.com video opinion
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Video: Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
How does MAHA turn some health-conscious people against all health care? We found out.
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The MAHA funnel...Big Wellness, conspiracy fantasies (not much theory involved) with their tell-tale keywords and how to respond.
Great @nytimes.com video opinion
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
Great @nytimes.com video opinion
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
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The David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse is amazing. It’s a must-see for fans of David Bowie.
I’m immensely proud of East Bank, and City Hall will continue to support this new world-class cultural quarter.
I’m immensely proud of East Bank, and City Hall will continue to support this new world-class cultural quarter.
A look inside David Bowie's incredible personal archive, from platform heels to photographs
Just as Bowie’s influence spun onwards and outwards, so does this revelatory new centre at the V&A East Storehouse
www.wallpaper.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The David Bowie Centre at the V&A East Storehouse is amazing. It’s a must-see for fans of David Bowie.
I’m immensely proud of East Bank, and City Hall will continue to support this new world-class cultural quarter.
I’m immensely proud of East Bank, and City Hall will continue to support this new world-class cultural quarter.