Government food strategy

The food strategy also advises people to eat 'responsibly sourced venison' instead of beef, rather than urging people to cut meat out of their diet.

“Ministers have turned a blind eye to the vast majority of recommendations in the independent review they themselves commissioned. Louisa Casson, head of food and forests at Greenpeace UK, said: “The government’s food strategy isn’t just half-baked, it’s flatter than a pancake and missing most of the crucial ingredients needed to truly ensure our long-term food security. We have these enormous challenges in relation to the climate crisis, the geopolitical shocks to the food system, and this is not up to scratch, this document. To call it a ‘food strategy’ is bordering on the preposterous.” It is clear now that the Government has absolutely no ambition to fix the mess they have created. “Some of the key recommendations haven’t been tracked across.

A leaked government paper on delivering a 'food strategy for England' is being reported by The Guardian and Financial Times as “preposterous”. The contents show ...

To call it a ‘food strategy’ is bordering on the preposterous.” It is clear now that the Government has absolutely no ambition to fix the mess they have created. The leaked document shows that these, and other recommendations have been erased.

Calls for a sugar and salt reformulation tax appear to be snubbed by ministers in a leaked draft of the Government's new white paper.

To call it a ‘food strategy’ is bordering on the preposterous.” The draft white paper, published in full by The Guardian, said the Government accepted “much of the analysis” and “the majority of recommendations” from the Dimbleby review, with policy initiatives to boost health, sustainability, accessibility of diets and to secure food supply. It is clear now that the Government has absolutely no ambition to fix the mess they have created.

Leon founder Henry Dimbleby's recommendations for an expansion of free school meals, a salt and sugar tax and government action on obesity do not appear to ...

To call it a 'food strategy' is bordering on the preposterous." While a cost of living crisis grips the UK, with recent ONS data revealing most Britons are cutting down on food and other essentials, the government says the cost of food "isn't the business of government food strategy". But according to a version of the strategy, seen by The Guardian and The Telegraph, these proposals have been ignored in favour of "a statement of vague intentions" - Rob Percival, head of food policy at the Soil Association, said.

The UK Government was lambasted for delivering a "half-baked" food strategy for England, with critics especially concerned about the apparent lack of a.

To call it a ‘food strategy’ is bordering on the preposterous.” “Instead of listening to the warnings from climate scientists on the urgent need to reduce meat production, ministers seem to be goading UK farmers into producing even more of it.” Leaked by the Guardian yesterday, the plan said “individual responsibility and choice” was important when it comes to eating healthily,” with the industry also playing a part.

Campaigners decry failure to extend free meals and budget of £250 per state school to teach healthy eating.

Maxwell Marlow, a research and development officer for the Adam Smith Institute, said: “The government is right to shelve its proposed salt and sugar taxes. We estimate 60% of secondary schools are failing to deliver the nutritional standards that children deserve. “We are approaching 1 million children in poverty that don’t get free school meals.

Calls for a sugar and salt reformulation tax appear to be snubbed by ministers in a leaked draft of the Government's new white paper.

To call it a ‘food strategy’ is bordering on the preposterous.” The draft white paper, published in full by The Guardian, said the Government accepted “much of the analysis” and “the majority of recommendations” from the Dimbleby review, with policy initiatives to boost health, sustainability, accessibility of diets and to secure food supply. It is clear now that the Government has absolutely no ambition to fix the mess they have created.

Anger grows before West Country by-election as farmers say they will be left poorer and unable to compete with foreign producers.

If the Conservatives were to lose the election to the Lib Dems, and Labour to retake Wakefield from them on the same day, many Tory MPs believe Johnson will be unable to survive as prime minister. He was also asked to show how this could be done in an environmentally friendly way. Food security and environmental resilience are the challenges of this generation and it is so depressing.” Farmers have become increasingly disenchanted, having been promised that their previous EU subsidies would replaced in full after Brexit. Instead they are being gradually phased out, with basic payments being cut by 20% this year. “I said that is what farmers in Tiverton want to see. Batters said she had told the PM on Friday that farmers – including those in the West Country seat of Tiverton and Honiton, where a crucial byelection will be held on 23 June – were furious with post-Brexit policies that they believed would make them poorer and leave them unable to compete with foreign producers.

Ministers have been accused of shunning recommendations from an independent review, while 'goading' farmers into producing more meat.

To call it a ‘food strategy’ is bordering on the preposterous.” “People are struggling to eat. The draft White Paper said the Government accepted “much of the analysis” and “the majority of recommendations” from the Dimbleby review, with policy initiatives to boost health, sustainability and accessibility of diets, and to secure food supply. Professor Graham MacGregor, chairman of Action on Sugar and Action on Salt, said the leaked document made it “abundantly clear” the Government was “in the pocket of the food industry” and had “no desire to bite the hand that feeds it”. A leaked draft of the Government’s food strategy for England has been branded “half-baked” and “flatter than a pancake”, with particular concern over the apparent rejection of a proposal for tax on sugar and salt. The document, published in full by The Guardian on Friday, said “individual responsibility and choice” is important when it comes to eating healthily, and industry “also has a role to play”.

The leaked draft of the food strategy was earlier branded 'half-baked' and 'flatter than a pancake' by campaigners.

The document said ministers would “support progress on a wide range of issues, including alternative proteins”, after the review urged the Government to “nudge” consumers into changing their meat-eating habits. Louisa Casson, head of food and forests at Greenpeace UK, accused ministers of seemingly “goading” UK farmers into producing more meat. Labour criticised the leaked document as “nothing more than a statement of vague intentions”. The National Farmers Union says the Government has “stripped to the bone” proposals from the review into England’s food system ahead of the expected release of a new food strategy on Monday. “We want to be eating more British and more local food but again I just ask how,” she told the paper. Ministers were accused of concocting a blueprint “bordering on the preposterous”, with the document suggesting they will shun key recommendations from a major review of the food system by Leon restaurant co-founder Henry Dimbleby.