Government’s Food 2030 report was slammed today by campaigners for failing dismally to tackle the unsustainable nature of our food and farming system. The report is recommending only "soft" measures, such as wasting less food and avoids tough issues such as reducing children’s consumption of junk food by, for example, properly protecting children from junk food marketing.
Jeanette Longfield MBE, Coordinator of Sustain, said: "The Government’s ’Food Vision" is hardly worthy of the name. The document proposes a series of minor tweaks to our fundamentally unsustainable food system and ignores obvious ideas to help British farmers, like improving the food that Government itself buys."
She continued: "What we need is an ambitious programme of investment in British farming so that it can produce healthy and sustainable food. If Government is serious about making our food system sustainable, it must put its money where its mouth is and only spend tax payers’ money on good quality and sustainable food. What we have got is more of the same policies that have caused the food system’s current problems."