How the Global Food System Is Killing Us - Henry Dimbleby and Alice Thomson | Intelligence Squared

In 1950 less than 1% of British people were obese. Today that figure is 28%. We spend £3.9 billion each year on confectionery compared to £2.4 billion on fruit and vegetables. Diet-related disease is now the biggest cause of preventable illness and death in the developed world. 

How did we get to this situation? According to Henry Dimbleby, every bite we take is informed by the invisible machinations of the vast, complex global food system. And in March 2023 he came to Intelligence Squared to talk about his new book Ravenous: How To Get Ourselves And Our Planet Into Shape. Few people know the food system better than Dimbleby, who is co-founder of the Leon restaurant chain and author of the National Food Strategy, and who recently quit his role as the government’s food tsar over its inaction over obesity. In conversation with Times columnist Alice Thomson, he explained the damage our food ecosystem is doing to us and to the planet, and he will set out his strategy for creating a truly healthy and sustainable food system. 

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[Zenigma]

The fast food industry has grown with Womens “liberation” to work and leave the home. Women no longer have time to cook from basic ingredients or fresh foods, instead they buy frozen, prepared and processed foods and meals.
Basically Women want to
work and inadvertently support the fast food processed food industry.
The food industry is making it “easy” for women.

If men are the ones at home preparing meals, which is rare, they too will opt for easy options!

In order to go back to healthy basics, we need shops that sell only fresh fruits, vegetables, fresh whole milk, fresh herbs and spices and nuts only and the return of the old butchers shops with fresh meat only on the corner of streets!

[vatsmith]

It's only fifty years since cigarette smoking was viewed as normal, even good for you. I wonder if in fifty years' time we'll look back and view ultra-processed foods much as we do tobacco now.

[buildmotosykletist]

So much omitted, so many blatant lies.