Sue Pritchard
@suepritch.bsky.social
Chief Exec, Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, UK. Organic & conservation farming, Monmouthshire. Trustee, CoFarm. Governor, Royal Agricultural University, Trustee, St George’s House. Woman. On. A. Mission.
Great to have Minister White here describing the progress the UK is making, the leadership were taking in the world, when it is urgently needed, and setting out serious and practical next steps. #GAevent
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Great to have Minister White here describing the progress the UK is making, the leadership were taking in the world, when it is urgently needed, and setting out serious and practical next steps. #GAevent
Very much looking forward to reading this, thanks to recommendation of @timjackson.org.uk The post-truth world, that glorifies ignorance and moral relativism has been carefully cultivated for decades. Time to fight back.
October 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Very much looking forward to reading this, thanks to recommendation of @timjackson.org.uk The post-truth world, that glorifies ignorance and moral relativism has been carefully cultivated for decades. Time to fight back.
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Save the date! The LEAP conference will return on 22 April 2026. Come and join us at Worcester College in Oxford to discuss meat and dairy production and consumption.
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Save the date! The LEAP conference will return on 22 April 2026. Come and join us at Worcester College in Oxford to discuss meat and dairy production and consumption.
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
We are thrilled that @suepritch.bsky.social and @martinwhite33.bsky.social will be delivering keynotes.
@oxmartinschool.bsky.social
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“Citizens want a government to take food seriously” - @suepritch.bsky.social, FFCC Chief Exec
We’re at Labour Party Conference this week to bring citizen voices to debates around food, farming & land – and encourage govt to put food at the heart of national renewal.
Here's where you can find us👇
We’re at Labour Party Conference this week to bring citizen voices to debates around food, farming & land – and encourage govt to put food at the heart of national renewal.
Here's where you can find us👇
September 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“Citizens want a government to take food seriously” - @suepritch.bsky.social, FFCC Chief Exec
We’re at Labour Party Conference this week to bring citizen voices to debates around food, farming & land – and encourage govt to put food at the heart of national renewal.
Here's where you can find us👇
We’re at Labour Party Conference this week to bring citizen voices to debates around food, farming & land – and encourage govt to put food at the heart of national renewal.
Here's where you can find us👇
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“People are outraged when they find out just how much big food corporations spend on lobbying government.”
Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation.
Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation.
Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
September 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
“People are outraged when they find out just how much big food corporations spend on lobbying government.”
Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation.
Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation.
Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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#LPC25: Get real about growth
Book your spot for the Labour Party Conference Panel Event here: invtdu.to/_73z3k
Book your spot for the Labour Party Conference Panel Event here: invtdu.to/_73z3k
September 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#LPC25: Get real about growth
Book your spot for the Labour Party Conference Panel Event here: invtdu.to/_73z3k
Book your spot for the Labour Party Conference Panel Event here: invtdu.to/_73z3k
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🌿FFCC is at Abergavenny Food Festival this weekend. Join us for two key events on Wales's food future:
🎟️'Can Wales Lead The Way?': www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...
🎟️BBC Food Programme: Cymru on the Future of Food: www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/event/bbc-ev...
🎟️'Can Wales Lead The Way?': www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...
🎟️BBC Food Programme: Cymru on the Future of Food: www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/event/bbc-ev...
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🌿FFCC is at Abergavenny Food Festival this weekend. Join us for two key events on Wales's food future:
🎟️'Can Wales Lead The Way?': www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...
🎟️BBC Food Programme: Cymru on the Future of Food: www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/event/bbc-ev...
🎟️'Can Wales Lead The Way?': www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...
🎟️BBC Food Programme: Cymru on the Future of Food: www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/event/bbc-ev...
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🎤Presented by Sheila Dillon, this panel brings together @suepritch.bsky.social with food writer @becalp.bsky.social, food historian @carwyngraves.bsky.social and @susfoodtrust.bsky.social's Patrick Holden to ask: what makes Wales’s food story so unique, and what it could teach the rest of the UK?
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
🎤Presented by Sheila Dillon, this panel brings together @suepritch.bsky.social with food writer @becalp.bsky.social, food historian @carwyngraves.bsky.social and @susfoodtrust.bsky.social's Patrick Holden to ask: what makes Wales’s food story so unique, and what it could teach the rest of the UK?
With the ID debate back on the agenda, it’s worth a closer look at who is benefiting from undocumented work. The food delivery firms, the nail bars, the hand car wash outlets… Who makes money from those businesses; who is buying the cheap products? theconversation.com/im-always-de...
‘I’m always delivering food while hungry’: how undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK
Our study of food delivery workers in one English city highlights the daily challenges facing undocumented migrants in this sector.
theconversation.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
With the ID debate back on the agenda, it’s worth a closer look at who is benefiting from undocumented work. The food delivery firms, the nail bars, the hand car wash outlets… Who makes money from those businesses; who is buying the cheap products? theconversation.com/im-always-de...
This is what leadership looks like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams
Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is what leadership looks like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t anybody try and tell me we can’t trust 16 year olds with the vote.
Trump: They have to give us magnets. If they don't, we have to charge them a 200% tariff or something… Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago "Let's all do magnets."
Say what now?
Say what now?
August 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Don’t anybody try and tell me we can’t trust 16 year olds with the vote.
Garden harvest. More corn to pick. Many more plums and damsons - which will need a ladder. Bumper pear crop in a couple of weeks. Well done, garden!
August 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Garden harvest. More corn to pick. Many more plums and damsons - which will need a ladder. Bumper pear crop in a couple of weeks. Well done, garden!
This is the kind of thing Welsh farmers get for free or at greatly subsidized rates via #FarmingConnect (side benefit - marveling at the What3Words choices for the farm visits 😂)
August 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
This is the kind of thing Welsh farmers get for free or at greatly subsidized rates via #FarmingConnect (side benefit - marveling at the What3Words choices for the farm visits 😂)
Love this innovation! Healthy street food, easily available everywhere! @ucl.ac.uk on.ft.com/45DuU8d Introducing Larder, the kitchen you can carry on a Lime Bike
Introducing Larder, the kitchen you can carry on a Lime Bike
The portable pantry aims to bring fresh food to the heart of the community
on.ft.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Love this innovation! Healthy street food, easily available everywhere! @ucl.ac.uk on.ft.com/45DuU8d Introducing Larder, the kitchen you can carry on a Lime Bike
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🌽 🍽️ We’re bringing big ideas and bold questions to Abergavenny Food Festival this year with a conference exploring: “A Fairer Food Future: Can Wales Lead the Way?”
🗓️ Friday 19 September | 10am - 4pm
📍 Abergavenny Food Festival Conference
www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...
🗓️ Friday 19 September | 10am - 4pm
📍 Abergavenny Food Festival Conference
www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌽 🍽️ We’re bringing big ideas and bold questions to Abergavenny Food Festival this year with a conference exploring: “A Fairer Food Future: Can Wales Lead the Way?”
🗓️ Friday 19 September | 10am - 4pm
📍 Abergavenny Food Festival Conference
www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...
🗓️ Friday 19 September | 10am - 4pm
📍 Abergavenny Food Festival Conference
www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...
Devastating news about the brilliant Sir David Nabarro. I have been so grateful for his wisdom, generosity and grace these last few years. Such a terrible loss.
July 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Devastating news about the brilliant Sir David Nabarro. I have been so grateful for his wisdom, generosity and grace these last few years. Such a terrible loss.
If a Wealth Tax is too complicated, let’s talk about tax rates. Wikipedia tells me this. UK highest rate 47% (incl NI). Switz 50% Spain 52% Portugal 56% Nethds 49% France 65% Finland 53% Denmark 52% Canada 58% Belgium 60% Austria 55%. Tax wealth. www.thetimes.com/article/486b...
Jonathan Reynolds rules out ‘daft’ wealth tax and says ‘get serious’
Jonathan Reynolds tells Labour backbenchers the idea is a populist gesture and ‘you can’t tax fine wine or art’
www.thetimes.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
If a Wealth Tax is too complicated, let’s talk about tax rates. Wikipedia tells me this. UK highest rate 47% (incl NI). Switz 50% Spain 52% Portugal 56% Nethds 49% France 65% Finland 53% Denmark 52% Canada 58% Belgium 60% Austria 55%. Tax wealth. www.thetimes.com/article/486b...
Here’s a wild idea for you, junk food companies, that’ll save you years and £millions in R&D, product testing and marketing!
*Just don’t make bad things!*
You’re welcome.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
*Just don’t make bad things!*
You’re welcome.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Children under seven should not drink slushies containing glycerol, says regulator
Food Standards Agency warns that the drinks can cause decreased consciousness and low blood sugar
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Here’s a wild idea for you, junk food companies, that’ll save you years and £millions in R&D, product testing and marketing!
*Just don’t make bad things!*
You’re welcome.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
*Just don’t make bad things!*
You’re welcome.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
24% of plastic waste with an identifiable brand came from just five companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, and Altria. #PollutersMustPay
Plastic waste colonialism is fuelling injustice for African communities.
Joyce’s story is not an exception. It is the reality of too many African women whose lives are being shaped, and shortened, by a crisis they did not create.
#GlobalPlasticTreaty
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Joyce’s story is not an exception. It is the reality of too many African women whose lives are being shaped, and shortened, by a crisis they did not create.
#GlobalPlasticTreaty
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Ending plastic pollution in Africa: a matter of justice for African women and communities - Greenpeace International
In Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite, Joyce, a young mother rises each day not to farm her land or build her dream, but to scavenge through plastic waste to sell and feed her children.
www.greenpeace.org
July 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
24% of plastic waste with an identifiable brand came from just five companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, and Altria. #PollutersMustPay
“these thousands of individual horror stories were not the result of some kind of antagonist-free natural disaster. They happened because there were perpetrators.” This travesty is at the heart of so many scandals of our neoliberal times - water, housing, food
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead | Marina Hyde
You thought it couldn’t get any worse, but the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history just got wider, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“these thousands of individual horror stories were not the result of some kind of antagonist-free natural disaster. They happened because there were perpetrators.” This travesty is at the heart of so many scandals of our neoliberal times - water, housing, food
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Experts say a better system would start upstream, controlling what enters treatment plants. New EU rules will require pharmaceutical and personal care product makers to pay 80% of waste treatment costs, but the UK has no such mechanism.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A Trojan horse’: how toxic sewage sludge became a threat to the future of British farming
Sludge used as fertiliser on farmland contains harmful chemicals that scientists suspect are entering food chain
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
“Experts say a better system would start upstream, controlling what enters treatment plants. New EU rules will require pharmaceutical and personal care product makers to pay 80% of waste treatment costs, but the UK has no such mechanism.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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📝 Blog: Whose farming future is it anyway?
Dr Charlie Taverner asks whether, amid a flurry of roadmaps, strategies & visions, have decision-makers spent enough time talking to people who these policies will affect? And will these policies help farmers live better lives?
ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Dr Charlie Taverner asks whether, amid a flurry of roadmaps, strategies & visions, have decision-makers spent enough time talking to people who these policies will affect? And will these policies help farmers live better lives?
ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Whose farming future is it anyway?
FFCC’s Dr Charlie Taverner on the flurry of roadmaps, strategies and visions for UK agriculture
ffcc.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
📝 Blog: Whose farming future is it anyway?
Dr Charlie Taverner asks whether, amid a flurry of roadmaps, strategies & visions, have decision-makers spent enough time talking to people who these policies will affect? And will these policies help farmers live better lives?
ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
Dr Charlie Taverner asks whether, amid a flurry of roadmaps, strategies & visions, have decision-makers spent enough time talking to people who these policies will affect? And will these policies help farmers live better lives?
ffcc.co.uk/conversation...
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🔦 As #LondonClimateWeek spotlights the urgent challenges - and opportunities - of transforming food, a new paper from @planeatryalliance.bsky.social offers 10 actionable insights on how to accelerate the transition to making healthy, sustainable diets the norm.
June 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🔦 As #LondonClimateWeek spotlights the urgent challenges - and opportunities - of transforming food, a new paper from @planeatryalliance.bsky.social offers 10 actionable insights on how to accelerate the transition to making healthy, sustainable diets the norm.
SO looking forward to my annual Groundswell fix! Time with my people - curious, innovative, practical, collaborative farmers, growers, campaigners and businesses. Come say hello!
🌞 Headed to #Groundswell25 next week?
We're part of three thought-provoking sessions to explore solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing food and farming today.
Here's where you can find us...
Explore the full programme here 👉 groundswellag.com/sessions/
We're part of three thought-provoking sessions to explore solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing food and farming today.
Here's where you can find us...
Explore the full programme here 👉 groundswellag.com/sessions/
June 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
SO looking forward to my annual Groundswell fix! Time with my people - curious, innovative, practical, collaborative farmers, growers, campaigners and businesses. Come say hello!