Renowned philosopher Julian Baggini, joined by food waste activist and author Tristram Stuart as moderator, takes us on a journey through the cultural, ethical, and technological dimensions of food. From cutting-edge innovations like cultured meat to the ethics of aquaculture and food commodification, Baggini uncovers the forces shaping what we eat—and what it means for our future.

At The Conduit, Stuart will bring his deep expertise in tackling food waste and championing sustainable food systems, offering fresh insights into how we can create fair, humane, and resourceful ways to nourish the world in the 21st century.

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Julian Baggini is a bestselling author, speaker and popular philosopher. His books include How the World Thinks, The Virtues of the Table; and the The Pig That Wants to be Eaten. He has served as Academic Director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds and has been a member of the Food Ethics Council since 2016. He has written for the Guardian, the Observer, the TLS, Financial Times and Prospect, among many others, and has been interviewed on national TV and radio as well as speaking at countless book festivals and events.

Following the critical success of his first book, The Bloodless Revolution (2006), and his international prize-winning book, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (Penguin, 2009), Tristram Stuart founded the environmental charity Feedback which works internationally to improve the environmental impact of food. Tristram has been awarded the international environmental award, The Sophie Prize, an Observer Food Monthly Award; he is an Ashoka Fellow, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer and a WEF Young Global Leader; his TED talk has been watched over a million times. Feedback’s campaigns and events, including Feeding the 5000 (where 5000 meals, made entirely from quality food that would have been wasted, are given away for free), The Gleaning Network UK/EU and The Pig Idea have been launched with partner organisations including UNEP, EU and grassroots groups in dozens of countries across the globe.