Comments for Live Well

Comment on We need a joined up food policy by CynicalEng

CynicalEng — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:48:00 +0000

“The protection granted to specific sectors such as sugar beet production has helped the industry to keep the price of sugary products at very low levels.” – really ? and yet for decades the EU sugar price has been a multiple of the world price and higher than the USA. Sugar costs way more than flour in the supermarket.

The sugar regime was also self funding, so placed little net burden on the EU budget. Producer levies funded export subsidies – there’s another clue, you don’t need to subsidise exports if your internal market price is at “very low levels”.

Comment on Can the public sector do sustainable procurement? by Nick Hughes

Nick Hughes — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 11:21:00 +0000

Thanks for the links Anna. Good to see government support for sustainable procurement in Sweden.

Comment on Can the public sector do sustainable procurement? by Anna Richert

Anna Richert — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:46:00 +0000

Hi, if you are interested in GPP, take a look here. The Swedish Environmental Management Council, SEMCo, is the Swedish government’s expert body on sustainable
procurement. Criteria have been developed for sustainable
procurement of food categories such as meat, fish, fruit&vegetables, grains etc.
They are open for use as a support to municipalities and regions. The criteria are
well known and widely used in Swedish municipalities. As of 2014, procurement
criteria and support will be integrated in the Swedish Competition Authority.

https://www.msr.se/en/About/Procurement-criteria/

https://www.msr.se/en/Home/Procurement/SEMCO-Procurement-criteria/Food/
And I agree fully, we need to follow ut on political commitments. 🙂 //Anna R

Comment on Urban health challenges and the ageing population by Adam Reekie

Adam Reekie — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:49:00 +0000

This is completely true, I didn’t mean that to be in there. Thanks for pointing it out.

Comment on Urban health challenges and the ageing population by Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:59:00 +0000

Why does age make you more susceptible to HIV? Once an
elderly person has been infected with HIV then they would be more susceptible
to AIDS associated illness, but there is no evidence to say that age is a risk
factor in contracting the virus in the first place.

Comment on How the European food chain reminded the EU to get its act together by Anna Richert

Anna Richert — Fri, 02 May 2014 13:48:00 +0000

Excellent summary, Erik!

Comment on LiveWell welcomes the EC consultation by Anna Richert

Anna Richert — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 08:45:00 +0000

Here is the weblink: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/food.htm

Comment on What to eat – a healthy, sustainable diet on a Plate by Rowan Adams

Rowan Adams — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:05:00 +0000

Well done WWF and the report authors for some joined-up thinking on food!