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Stuart Gillespie
@stuartgillespie.bsky.social
Nutrition, food justice, health, cycling | writer, freelance
Non-res senior fellow, IFPRI | hon associate IDS
FOOD FIGHT https://canongate.co.uk/books/5139-food-fight-from-plunder-and-profit-to-people-and-planet/
SUBSTACK: stuartgillespie.substack.com
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'FOOD FIGHT' shows how our food system has warped into something that's making us (and our planet) sick.
But its main focus is on how to turn things around.
Out in April 2025 but open for pre-order here:
buythebook.online/foodfight
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January 8, 2026 at 6:22 PM
January 6, 2026 at 1:57 PM
25 years after Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser returns...

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Late addition to my book list....a real tour de force!
January 1, 2026 at 11:55 AM
"For all the promise of GLP-1s, the body still needs what it has always needed: affordable and accessible nutritious food and daily movement."

Great column by @profdevisridhar.bsky.social @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The WHO learned to love ‘anti-obesity’ jabs in 2025. I don’t fully agree, but I get it | Devi Sridhar
While GLP-1 drugs promise an easy fix, our bodies still need what they have always needed: healthy food and regular exercise, says chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, Prof De...
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🔥new substack

Happy new year....and don't give up!

stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/the-long-g...
December 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Check out the latest issue of The Mint Magazine on the economics and politics of the food system, including interviews with Million Belay and myself.

And happy new year Blueskyers!

www.themintmagazine.com/issues/issue...
December 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
As a year of institutionalised lying comes to a close...remember, a new one is about to begin!

Brilliant column, as ever, by @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As we prepare for 2026, remember we have the power to make our future | Rebecca Solnit
We enter 2026 with radical uncertainty about the fate of the US – but also with the clarity that people have the power to determine what it will be
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Interesting podcast...

You state:

"It is true that we eat a lot of shit in the US...but it’s not shit because it’s grown industrially."

Disagree...main goal is maximising profit which means UPFs which are the least healthy for people and planet.

Quality, health, politics strangely absent in pod.
A leftist academic wrote an essay titled "Useful Idiot" about...me! So I did his podcast, and it's kind of interesting. I like how he introduces me by explaining that usually his guests are insightful, but he decided to make an exception. landscapes.libsyn.com/more-is-less...
Landscapes: More is Less? - Michael Grunwald
Michael Grunwald is an environmental journalist who sees maximizing efficient production as the most important sustianbility strategy. His book, "We Are Eating the Earth," brings fresh attention to an...
landscapes.libsyn.com
December 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Cold but glorious Xmas ramble along Sussex coast....

Happy holidays!
December 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Big step forward...

Check out @unicef.org new digital toolkit and world-first Model Legal Language for protecting children from unhealthy and ultra-processed food marketing

knowledge.unicef.org/child-nutrit...
December 17, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Thanks @dansaladino.bsky.social for selecting 'Food Fight' as your book of the year!

(nice summary at 5.07 mins)

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Food Programme - The Food Books of 2025 - BBC Sounds
Leyla Kazim discusses some of the year's best food writing with Ruby Tandoh and guests.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
Ok, with this year being what it has, we all deserved and needed this today. Do yourself a favor and watch it. You deserve it.
David Byrne: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It's December...here's my best of '25 list!

(at least, that's when I read 'em)

@juliabelluz.bsky.social @profdevisridhar.bsky.social @kevinh-phd.bsky.social @mikebernerslee.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social et al...
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Many thanks….without sounding too smug, 😊 there are some great books on this list
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Last week saw the long-awaited launch of the The Lancet Group Series on Ultra-Processed Food and Human Health.

Reviewed here:

stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/ultra-proc...

Three papers -- each one is excellent, together, they represent a landmark.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🔥Lancet Series on UPFs and human health

Charts the global rise of UPFs - drivers, consequences and solutions - ending with a vision for the food system that emphases local food producers, preserving cultural foods transitions and economic benefits for communities

www.thelancet.com/series-do/ul...
Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health
This 3-paper Series reviews the evidence about the increase in ultra-processed foods in diets globally and highlights the association with many non-communicable diseases. This rise in ultra-processed ...
www.thelancet.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
Nestle accused of risking baby heath in Africa, Asia and Latin America
NGO says Swiss food giant is 'putting the health of babies at risk for profit' by adding sugar to babyfood.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reposted by Stuart Gillespie
What to Eat Now. Today is publication day!

Today marks the official publication of my new book, What to Eat Now!  All 703 pages of it! Order it---ISBN 9780374608699---from Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Books-a-Million   Bookshop   Powells   Target It's a thoroughly revised version of What to…
What to Eat Now. Today is publication day!
Today marks the official publication of my new book, What to Eat Now!  All 703 pages of it! Order it---ISBN 9780374608699---from Amazon   Barnes & Noble   Books-a-Million   Bookshop   Powells   Target It's a thoroughly revised version of What to Eat, published in 2006. A lot has changed, much more than I imagined when I set out to do this.  I thought it would be a six-month project, but it's now four years later.
www.foodpolitics.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Livelier than usual outside our place tonight
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Turning points in food histories

The diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage

stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/turning-po...
Turning points in food histories
Diminishing returns of bird poo, foxhole cuisine and the start of a global rampage
stuartgillespie.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM