The Obesity Health Alliance and four other food and farming Alliances are today urging the government to deliver a strong and fair Food Strategy.
Earlier this year, the Obesity Health Alliance, alongside Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, Eating Better, Wildlife and Countryside Link and Plant-based Food Alliance formed the Food Strategy Alliances. Together, we represent over 160 civil society and business organisations spanning health, animal welfare, conservation, food production, farming and social justice sectors.
We formed the Food Strategy Alliances to ensure civil society organisations working across the food sector have a coherent voice and unified role in supporting the development and delivery of a successful UK Food Strategy.
We have developed 17 Asks for the UK Government’s Food Strategy that span food production to consumption, and which we believe would transform the UK’s food system and make their ‘Good Food Cycle’ vision a reality.
Read the Food Strategy Alliance asks here
Alongside this, we have also written to The Rt Hon Emma Reynolds MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to share these asks and show our support to the government here.
Read the letter here
Katharine Jenner, Executive Director of the Obesity Health Alliance, said:
We are pleased to collaborate with other leading food and farming alliances to offer the Government a set of key recommendations that will help transform the Good Food Cycle from aspiration into reality, and ultimately deliver a food system that supports public health, animal welfare, and environmental sustainability.
Last week’s Budget announcement on the Soft Drinks Industry Levy provides a timely reminder of the importance of protecting the policymaking process from vested interests – evidenced by the decision to lower the threshold to 4.5g/100ml rather than the 4g/100ml proposed during consultation.
We hope that this and the 16 additional recommendations will offer the Government plenty to get their teeth into in the months ahead.