Stuart Gillespie

'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

Thanks to @artefr.bsky.social and team....I enjoyed playing a part in this, back in the dark and freezing days of a Berlin mid-winter! www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

🔥What can I do? stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/fighting-o...

What can I do? Since @juliabelluz.bsky.social and I published our books last year, this is the most common question we’ve been asked. This is not dietary advice, it's about what we can do, as citizens, to detoxify the food environments around us. stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/fighting-o...

🚨True cost of UK’s food system is nearly £300 billion a year, and rising 📈 Updated analysis from @timjackson.org.uk shows the economic cost of the UK’s unhealthy food system has risen to £298 billion a year, up from £268 billion just two years ago. Read 👉 ffcc.co.uk/publications...

Check out the video launch of 'The Economics of Eating' film and conversation from last week. The film explores the impacts of the industrial food system and the case for more localised food systems. With Finn Harries, Lyla June Johnston, Helena Norberg-Hodge & me www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW2y...

🔥Maybe it’s a case of ‘you find what you look for’... But it seems to me there’s been an upswing in discourse on what power in food and health is, how it manifests, who wields it, to what end – and how we can address its imbalances. Will action follow? stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/more-power

Why does food grown thousands of miles away often cost less than food produced just around the corner? Join us on September 17 for a special online screening of a short film followed by a live conversation. www.localfutures.org/events/live-...

Really excellent piece by @stuartgillespie.bsky.social on AI use in writing. That is, AI - alien intelligence. AI - anti-intellectual.

Just think about it... The considered word, anti-intelligence and a new commercial determinant of health stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/just-think...

Really enjoyed this chat with Helen Freeman on what power looks like in our food system, how it’s used, who wins, who loses — who can choose what to eat, who cannot — and how we can begin to turn things around… @memypigsandi.bsky.social www.memypigsandi.com/p/the-food-s...

🔥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...

🔥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...

🔥Last week, I spent a couple of days as a Groundswell rookie...some reflections... stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/time-for-a...

🔥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...,

🔥‘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...

"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-...

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

🔥Don't Feed the Vultures! More reflections on our dietary liberation struggle... stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/dont-feed-...

🔥 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-...

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...

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/...

🔥new post stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/future-pre...

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-...

new year, new cover.... www.waterstones.com/book/food-fi...

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...

🔥new substack Happy new year....and don't give up! stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/the-long-g...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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/...

fascinating list @incubatorghai.bsky.social and thanks! www.advocacyincubator.org/news/2025-12...

🔥 'Follow the money' stuartgillespie.substack.com/p/follow-the...

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.

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...

Many thanks….without sounding too smug, 😊 there are some great books on this list

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.

🔥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...