Henry Dimbleby says government’s response to his review of food system shows no vision and ‘is not a strategy’
The government’s lead adviser on food issues has condemned what ministers have billed as a landmark national plan to combat food poverty and obesity, saying it is “not a strategy” and warning it could mean more children will go hungry.
The document, to be introduced into the House of Commons by the environment secretary, George Eustice, on Monday, is virtually unchanged from aIn his document, Dimbleby made a number of high-profile suggestions, including a significant expansion to free school meals, greater environment and welfare standards in farming, and a 30% reduction in meat and dairy consumption.
“I do hope it is being looked at, people are being inflated into poverty and food providers are being inflated into not producing healthy meals,” he warned. Recommendations by Dimbleby on diet and public health, such as using a sugar and salt tax to fund healthy food options for those in poverty, were also ignored, with the issue shunted into an upcoming health inequalities white paper. “There was nothing really there on health,” Dimbleby said.
Opposition parties also expressed disquiet. Jim McMahon, Labour’s shadow environment and food secretary, said the government had “absolutely no ambition” to tackle crises over food prices. The food TV presenter and climate campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall condemned the lack of any plan to reduce meat and dairy consumption, calling this “just lazy and spineless and pandering to the food industry’s status quo”.
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