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
🔥On how transnational corporations deploy lawsuits and legal threats to derail, dilute and delay public health efforts around the world. Also featured, a lively back-and-forth about litigation on the other side...FOR public health. stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/the-writin...
The writing's on the wall
...and in the courthouse
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🔥On how (not) to save the world, choosing when and how to fight back…and the joys of a bout of genealogical distraction... stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/picking-ba...
Picking battles, climbing trees
On (not) saving the world, fighting back…and the joys of a bout of weekend genealogy…
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🔥Last week, I spent a couple of days as a Groundswell rookie...some reflections... stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/time-for-a...
Time for a break?
Last week, I spent a couple of days as a Groundswell rookie.
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🔥A French canicule, fried eggs on pavements, existential doughnuts, ultra-processed updates and a host of lively new podcasts... 👇 stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/dog-day-di...
We are delighted to share that FOOD FIGHT by @stuartgillespie.bsky.social is a Guild of Food Writers Award winner! FOOD FIGHT won the Investigative Food Writer Award category - huge congratulations to Stuart!
Huge thanks to The Guild of Food Writers for a great evening! www.gfw.co.uk/2026/the-gui...,
The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2026 - Winners - Guild of Food Writers
It is with great pleasure that we bring you details of the winners of The Guild of Food Writers Awards 2026 presentation, which took place in London at the Royal Institution on 3 June 2026. You will f...
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🔥‘Lifestyle’ is a word confected and propagated by industries to obscure and deceive – to distract us from the harms they were generating. To keep the spotlight on the consumer, not the product or the practices behind it.' stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/its-not-on...
It's (not) on you
The great lifestyle deceit and why we need to re-politicise public health
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"A Next Big Idea Club selection. The anger is controlled, the evidence is comprehensive, and the hope — mapped carefully in the final chapters — is not naive." fisherandfarmer.com/review-food-...
Review: Food Fight
How the food system designed to prevent famine became the thing making us sick, and what a transformed one might look like.
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🔥‘Food system transformation’ has become the mother of all development clichés. The real goal of many who invoke it is not real transformation – it’s more about fiddling on the fringe. To truly overhaul the food system, we need to see a major shift in the structure and dynamics of power.
Big thanks to the Guild of Food Writers for shortlisting 'Food Fight' ! www.gfw.co.uk/2026/the-gui...
🔥Kind of blue "This latest move is corporate capture, bluewashing and global marketing all rolled into one." stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/kind-of-blue
Kind of blue
Five hundred top public health, food and nutrition scientists and activists, in just two weeks, have signed an open letter to the UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) calling fo...
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🔥Don't Feed the Vultures! More reflections on our dietary liberation struggle... stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/dont-feed-...
Don't feed the vultures!
More reflections on the dietary liberation struggle
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🔥 A spring smorgasbord of essays, papers, posts... On the nirvana of food systems long-gone...to the trials, tribulations, debates and arguments on the one we're in now (feat. MAHA, CoI, AI, GLP1s and plenty of real words too!) stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/fantasies-...
Fantasies of Eden...and straw men
Bit late with this…
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A food fight worth having isn’t about preferences — it’s about power. Dive into this week’s Tiny Ink convo with @stuartgillespie.bsky.social on why food systems change feels so hard (and what might break the logjam). 👉 news.thin-ink.net/p/a-food-fig...
A Food Fight Worth Having
A Conversation with Stuart Gillespie
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This book grew out of work for a counter-report to the historic World Food Conference of 1974. It's a classic...and that cover! RIP Susan George
"The solution is staring us in the face...we are the producers of the goods, the services, the technologies. It is our labour and our planet’s resources that are at stake. And so we must claim the right to decide what is produced, how, and for what purpose." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp, say Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis
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My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking
🔥new substack On the power of stories and radical realism stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
25 years after Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser returns... @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ja...
Late addition to my book list....a real tour de force!
"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...
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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...
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
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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.
Michael Grunwald@mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 7mo agoA 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...
Cold but glorious Xmas ramble along Sussex coast.... Happy holidays!
Revelation before revolution... Really enjoyed this chat with Tony Chapman @chatterthatmatters.bsky.social chatterthatmatters.libsyn.com/dr-stuart-gi...
Chatter that Matters: Dr. Stuart Gillespie - Food Fight
Our global food system is feeding more people than ever, yet some argue it is also making more people sick, more unequal, and more vulnerable. How did we get here, and more importantly, how do we chan...
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