Abstract
Food and food policies are becoming more central in the social policy arena. not least because of their impact on health and poverty. This paper reviews some of the key trends in the food system notably the over production of food in the west ,the growing domination odf the food industries by hugecorporations and the rediscovery of the links between food costs, nutritional standards and poverty. Overproduction leads the corporations into an endless search for new crops new products, new modes of marketing and new forms of consumption such as eating out and fast food, Ethnic-minority and wholefood-tastes retailing have challenged these trends but new food policies now being developed by local outhori ties, voluntary organisations and even the Labour Party are needed to check the corrosive effect of the dominant trends on health in general and on the lower income groups in particular.
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