Driven to Temptation; Ignoring the Consequences
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FOOTPRSUSTAINABLE RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS www.foodservicefootprint.com NTAPRIL 2014 £4.50 Driven to temptation; ignoring the consequences Doughnuts with a third of the fat Drive towards small scale AD plants Sustainable Supplier Focus: The forgotten calories in wine Why MasterChef is not T DON’ about healthy eating MISS FOOTPRINT AWARDS 2014 OUT Book tickets now to the fabulous gala dinner at East Wintergarden, Canary Wharf on 22nd May! www.footprint-awards.com CONTENTS COMMENT News 4 Report: Food security is a tall order and answers are in short supply 7 Review: Why girls need power to help new innocent feed the world 8 Waste Watch: Lords call for a ministerial waste champion Flash in le pain 9 Interview: Nestlé’s head of agriculture gets frank about Fairtrade super smoothies Comment 11 My viewpoint: Why Scottish food and drink should be big news this year, and next David Burrows Editor-in-chief Features 12 Profile: John Torode sits on the sustainability fence – kind of 14 Pubs & Bars: Can calorie labels on wine ONJOUR, BONJOUR. This month déjeuner and the views beyond. help curb obesity? I’m writing my column from France. The other story also involves an affront 15 Health & Vitality: The doughnut that’s BMore specifically: the south of to French cuisine – this time in the form not so naughty France. Where the skies are clear and the of malbouffe, or fast food. L’Observatoire 16 Contract Catering: Winner or loser? air is warm. More specifically still: sitting du Pain (yes – they have a lobby group Scotland’s Commonwealth Games food in a café (outside), in a T-shirt, with a focused on French bread) is up in arms as charter croissant. I could get used to this. C’est la les Big Macs eat into the sandwich market. 18 Grocery: Retailers can help turn vie. A century ago the French scoffed three packaging from green sinner to winner I’ve just been flicking through a local rag baguettes a day. Each. Bonnet de douche, as 20 Energy & Equipment: Small AD sites offer big potential (dusting the cobwebs from the part of my Del Boy might say. By the 1970s this had 22 Supply Chain: Sustainable palm oil brain which once harboured my A-level fallen to just one. And today it stands at standards under the spotlight French) and what do I find but a page half a baguette a day. 23 Green Scene: Stormy weather should dedicated to foodservice. There’s a story A study released by the marketing firm force a rethink on environmental policy about how chefs here are railing against Gira Conseil (which I have since seen what they see as a “food porn” trend – picked up by the Telegraph) showed that CONTACTS when diners take photos of their meals 75% of French restaurants now sell beef Editor-in-chief: and post them on social networking sites. in a bun. Nearly half of all sandwiches David Burrows - [email protected] Chief subeditor: Some think it’s good publicity, but others sold over here are now burgers, while James Eagle are quite upset by it. fast food outlets outnumber traditional Contributors: James Withers, Anthony Pearce, Kath Dalmeny, Richard “Our aim is to create a special moment restaurants; all of which means less eating Gueterbock, Robert Tregay News: in time for our clients,” grumped of baguettes. David Burrows - [email protected] Niki Goddard - [email protected] Alexandre Gauthier of La Grenouillère, So the renowned French two-hour Art direction: which is situated 60km (sorry, 37 miles) lunches washed down with wine are Trevor Marshall - [email protected] Film & new media: from Calais. “And for that you have to about as relevant as Englishmen in bowler Duncan Smith Online content & social media: switch off your phone.” I can see his hats, claimed the local paper. 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As packaging tastes good, does good volume of input and output waste information becomes more widely available, such associated with the delivery of data will be linked to product specifications so innocent super smoothies are fortified with vitamins and minerals. For full health benefits see product labels. www.greenten.co.uk goods by site. that input and output waste is calculated. FOOTPRINT | APRIL 2014 3 1880_SS_One_pager_260314_CS6.indd 1 27/03/2014 09:54 FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS FOOTPRINT ANALYSIS Few solutions to a Africa ‘turning the world of problems corner’ on GM Feeding the world come 2050 is a tall ENETIC MODIFICATION was never long will it take [for Europe to accept GM far from the stage. From Imperial technology], I wouldn’t have said 20 years. order, but answers are in short supply. GCollege’s professor of international The business of biotech is 20 years old David Burrows left a London summit development at the start of the day to the now [but] conversations feel like it only GM protester turned biotech buddy Mark happened last week.” with more questions than answers. Lynas at the end, there was little escaping The biotech firms hadn’t helped the potential role of this technology in themselves in this respect, he admitted. “We feeding the world. Sandwiched in between felt that we ran a de minimis part of the food OURNALISTS ARE sometimes prone Question one: Why was there little of Monsanto’s boss, Hugh Grant, offered was Monsanto’s chief executive. chain; I think that was wrong. We spent a to exaggeration, but The Economist’s reference to food waste? Given that 1.2 to some soundbites (right) during an onstage In a (staged) interview, Hugh Grant lot of time talking to farmers but very little Jdeputy editor, Emma Duncan, was not 2 billion tonnes of the food produced never interview, questions were not opened explained what has gone wrong with GM talking to consumers.” underplaying the situation when she opened gets to a human stomach, surely the topic up to the audience and he was ushered in Europe, where many of the big firms are Grant said that Africa, by comparison, has this year’s Feeding the World conference by merits a seat at such tables? In South-East away whenever a journalist got within the focusing their efforts elsewhere, blaming “turned the corner” on GM. Lynas picked Monsanto boss Hugh Grant suggested describing food security as “undoubtedly” Asian countries, for example, losses of rice 10-metre buffer zone set up by his entourage opposition from politicians rather than up on this in his presentation, claiming that Africa could steal a march on Europe by one of the most important issues facing can range from 37% to 80% of the entire (perhaps an idea taken from the company’s consumers. “I haven’t given up [on Europe]. “Uganda is ahead of the UK in terms of its embracing GM technology. the planet. “This is a tall order,” said Sir production. It is well understood that in crop trials). Nestlé’s head of agriculture, If you had said to me 20 years ago how research into GM”. Gordon Conway, a professor of international developing countries food wastage happens Hans Jöhr, was the exception to the rule (see development at Imperial College London. mainly at the producer end of the chain, page 9). “It’s an order of magnitude much greater with farmers struggling with inefficient than the original Green Revolution.” harvesting, inadequate local transport and Top of the agenda doesn’t mean top of the The challenge is widely appreciated: by poor infrastructure. priority list. One only has to look at climate Call for regulation 2050 there will be upwards of 9 billion These topics came up, but as challenges change to understand that. people, so how do we feed them all? One rather than the possibility of co-ordinated day, a few hundred attendees and a large, solutions. It was disappointing that the Question four: Where were the retailers? OVERNMENTS NEED to get more There are a few good companies that are opulent hall were never going to provide early markers laid down by Kanayo Nwanze, One of the themes that did coalesce during involved in solving the world’s always good at everything, but a lot are all the answers, but I have to admit that I the president of the International Fund for the day was the role of the private sector in Gfood security challenges because moving slowly.” left frustrated and with more than a few Agricultural Development, were not picked providing food for the world.