To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art" - François de La Rochefoucauld
About the Safe Food Foundation
The Safe Food Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2011 to promote awareness of the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of food production.
With a broad remit and a proactive, solution oriented approach to food quality and safety, our mission is to highlight issues around the production and consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) foods, chemicals, nanotechnology, irradiation, corporate control, monoculture, fair trade and food sovereignty.
Our goal is to encourage the production of foods of high nutrient quality which are safe to consume, sustainable for our environment, and beneficial to the social systems that produce and consume those foods. This is vital if consumers are to continue enjoying the right to choose clean and natural foods, including organic foods.
We will ask our regulators to rigorously and transparently assess and manage the risks stemming from the use of agricultural technologies such as GM, nanotechnology and irradiation; seeking to educate consumers about these issues so that they know precisely what they are eating and how their food has has been produced.
Where necessary we will use the legal system, through application to the courts, as a means of protecting consumers from the potential harm arising from food production systems.
A key project is assisting Steve Marsh, a farmer from Kojonup, Western Australia, whose organic farm was contaminated late last year by a neighbouring farmer's GM canola, and has, as a result, lost his organic certification.
Steve has recently announced his intention to issue proceedings in the WA Supreme Court through Slater & Gordon Lawyers, seeking compensation for loss and damage from his GM neighbour.
We will work to increase public awareness about the threat of GM to non-GM and organic farming, to raise funds to support Steve's case, and to bring focus and scrutiny to bear on the risks of GM and other, potentially unsafe, agricultural practices.
Two key directors of the SFF are Scott Kinnear and Clive Blazey. Both of whom are passionate about making food safe and protecting the rights of consumers and farmers to choose what we eat and how it has been produced.
Our sister organization The Safe Food Institute was established in 2010 to conduct high quality research into issues of food safety and quality arising from modern food production systems. The three directors are Scott Kinnear, Clive Blazey and Patrick Holden who is based in the UK.