Eating Better

Eating Better: for a fair, green, healthy future is a broad alliance working together to help people move towards eating less meat and more food that’s better for us and the planet, as part of the vital task of creating sustainable food and farming systems.

Our vision

Our vision is a world in which everyone values and has access to healthy, humane and sustainable diets. High meat consuming countries and individuals have reduced their consumption in line with health recommendations and greenhouse gas reduction targets. Meat is produced humanely and sustainably, its production provides sustainable livelihoods, environmental benefits and it is consumed in quantities consistent with good health and global resource use capacity.

Our mission

We will do this by:

  • Demonstrating coherent cross-sectoral leadership on lower meat consumption as part of healthy, sustainable diets.​
  • Making change happen at the level of government policy, business practice and consumer behaviour, by developing ‘asks’ and catalysing lobbying muscle.​
  • Stimulating long-term cultural shifts by devising new ways of framing the ‘eat less meat’ message that are compelling and inclusive.

Our approach

Eating Better encourages a culture where we place greater value on the food we eat, the animals that provide it and the people who produce it. Eating Better supports farmers who produce meat in a sustainable way. Moderating our meat consumption – whether red, white or processed meats – while also choosing ‘better’ meat that is naturally-fed, has a known provenance and is produced to high animal welfare, environmental and quality standards can help support farmers without being more expensive for consumers. A ‘less but better’ approach to meat with meals based around a greater variety of plant-based foods will ensure healthy, balanced diets that are better for the planet and for fairer food systems too.

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ACERO
Action on Sugar
Advertising Association
Advertising Standards Authority
Ajinomoto
Alcohol Concern
All Party Parliamentary Group on a Fit and Healthy Childhood
AMRC
Association for Nutrition
Association for the Study of Obesity
Association of Play Industries
British Association and College of Occupational Therapists
British Dietetic Association
British Heart Foundation
British Independent Retailers Association
British Medical Association
British Obesity Society
British Retail Consortium
BUPA
C3 Collaborating for Health
Cambridge Health Network
Cambridge Institute of Public Health
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Child Growth Foundation
Children's Food Trust
College of Contemporary Health
Consensus Action on Salt and Health
Counterweight
Department for Business Innovation & Skills
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Department of Health
Design Council
Diabetes UK
Directors of Public Health
EPODE European Network
European Association for the Study of Obesity
European Public Health Alliance
Eveque
Faculty of Public Health
Food and Drink Federation
Food for Life Partnership
Food Standards Agency
Fresh Produce Consortium
General Medical Council
Genetics of Obesity Study
Health & Social Care Information Centre
Health and Wellbeing Boards
Health Education Trust
Healthwatch
Heart Research UK
Heart UK
HENRY
HM Treasury
HOOP UK
Hydration For Health Initiative
Infant & Toddler Forum
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Living Streets
Local Government Association
London Health Commission
McKinsey Global Institute
MEND Foundation
MoreLife UK
MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network
National Audit Office
National Farmers Union
National Health Service
National Obesity Forum
NICE
OFCOM
Office for National Statistics
Ofsted
Play England
Public Health England
Rotherham Institute for Obesity
Royal College of General Practitioners
Royal College of Nursing
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Royal College of Physicians
Slimming World
Sport and Recreation Alliance
Sugar Nutrition UK
Sustain
Sustrans
The Health Well – Obesity Hub
The King's Fund
The Sleep Council
The UK Baby Friendly Initiative
UK Health Forum
ukactive
Weight Concern
Weight Watchers
Weight Wins
Wine and Spirit Trade Association
World Cancer Research Fund UK
World Health Organization
World Obesity Federation
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