Connecting the Dots with Dr. Food

During the Dec. 2025 episode of "Connecting the Dots with Dr. Food," CFI's Charlie Arnot and Dr. David Hughes cover a wide range of timely topics, from new UK sugar taxes and advertising restrictions to the growing momentum behind gene editing and the changing landscape of online food retail. It’s a quick, informative look at the issues shaping what we grow, buy and eat. Catch the full episode and be sure to join us on January 8 when we return with more of "the fastest 15 minutes in food!"

“Connecting the Dots with Dr. Food - November 2025 Edition! Dr. David Hughes is fresh off a world tour – sharing insights on what’s top of mind when it comes to food and ag. Learn more about what’s behind an increase in meat consumption, how tariff tinkering continues to cause uncertainty and why UK farmers are scratching their heads when it comes to consumer trust.

How is the debate about the health of seed oils affecting farmers in the UK? Dr. David Hughes shares the impact during the October 2025 episode of Connecting the Dots with Dr. Food. Listen in as David and Charlie Arnot with The Center for Food Integrity unpack insights into what’s shaping consumer behavior and food systems worldwide.

Join us for the fastest 15 minutes in food! In the August 2025 edition, Dr. David Hughes and CFI's Charlie Arnot explore the impact of climate change on food production and distribution, including its effects on seasonal eating patterns and food security across different countries, and changing retail trends, particularly how younger consumers' shopping habits are influencing supermarket strategies and community initiatives.

In this edition of Connecting the Dots with Dr. Food, Dr. David Hughes and Charlie Arnot with The Center for Food Integrity discuss how UK food companies are working to keep costs down, new efforts to help us eat better and a new and fast-growing segment of British agriculture. Tune in!

Join CFI's Charlie Arnot and Dr. David Hughes for Connecting the Dots with Dr. Food - a look at food and ag trends across the pond. They tackle tariffs, grocery retail price wars, the continuing decline in alcohol consumption and the spread and evolution of livestock disease.

Flowers may be blooming, but food and ag folks across the pond certainly don’t have a “spring” in their step. In the April edition of Connecting the Dots with Dr. Food, David Hughes reveals details of a new survey showing low business confidence, with trade wars and tax burdens as top drivers of unease. Consumers are on edge, too, as high food prices spurring boycotts and protests. And David details a unique nutrition app offers up a new twist on ultra-processed food.

In the March 2025 edition of Connecting the Dots with Dr. Food, Dr. David Hughes talks potential impacts of tariffs on food and drink in the EU, self-checkout cheaters and England's land-use quandary as it ponders how to grow more food, build new houses and become a green energy superpower.