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At the heart of  this conversation with Andrea Rasca , he shares his unique perspective on the future of food and the driving forces...

By Andrea Rasca . This year, in all the noise and rush, I kept asking myself one simple question: what truly holds a society together? Economists point to GDP, politicians to strategies, tech experts to algorithms, all designed to glorify metrics. But for me, the answer is much simpler and profound. A society stands or falls by its rituals: the bread we break, the stories we share, and the wisdom we carry forward. I live in one of the wealthiest cities in the world, where we

2025 forces an uncomfortable reckoning with the industrial food system, a challenge our founder, Andrea Rasca , and the entire Movimento Metropolitano team have been confronting for years. We continue to strip away layers of marketing and misdirection, revealing that the roots of health lie not just in science, but in systemic and economic factors. This year's lesson reinforces what we’ve always known: the plate is political . True wellbeing depends as much on structural int

This Budget is a negotiation over who eats, who pays, and who survives. The government presents it as balance, but the reality is tension: wages rise, costs rise, and the promise of relief is offset by what is quietly taken away. The rise of the National Living Wage to £12.71 by 2026 is justice for workers, and for many it will feel like that—a pay packet that stretches further, a week made less precarious. It’s recognition of dignity in labour. Yet for kitchens and cafés alr

Hippocrates  knew the final cost of a cheap meal long before the courts ruled against Bayer . His wisdom—‘ Let food be thy medicine’ —is no longer ancient history; it’s the fundamental and non-negotiable principle for modern public health. It seems that the only intelligent path forward is a full-circle walk back to this simplest truth. This truth is rooted in his simple observation: all health rested on the plate and the step taken each day. Hippocrates understood that the g

The reckoning is here. Forget commercial failure; this is a systemic crisis. The $2 billion verdict against Bayer over glyphosate, and the likely US market withdrawal, proves it. As Andrea Rasca has long argued, the global broken food system demands immediate, and clear attention. What is glyphosate ? It’s the world’s most widely used herbicide, famously the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup. Bayer acquired the liability when it purchased Monsanto in 2018. The contr