2 What action can I take?

2.1 Sustainable food

It is clear that the relationship our food has with climate change is not just limited to how far it travels, but encompasses its production methods, its seasonality, how it is sold to us, what we do with any waste and many other aspects. Sustain, the UK's alliance for better food and farming, has come up with seven principles of sustainable food in a report entitled ‘Eat well and sustain the planet!’.

When you are shopping you could try using the following guides on buying sustainable meat, fish and eggs:

• the Soil Association's consumer guide Buy Organic

• Compassion in World Farming's Compassionate Shopping Guide

• the Marine Conservation Society's Fish to Eat.

Happily, when these foods are produced sustainably, they often have far higher animal welfare standards.