‘Worse than half-baked’: Johnson’s food strategy fails to tackle cost or climate
by Helena Horton, Rowena Mason and Patrick Butler from Environment | The Guardian on (#607P8)
Labour says leaked white paper suggesting more fish farming and venison borders on preposterous'
Boris Johnson's new food strategy for England contains virtually no new measures to tackle the soaring cost of food, childhood hunger, obesity or the climate emergency, a leaked version of the white paper shows.
The strategy, seen by the Guardian and due to be published on Monday, was supposed to be a groundbreaking response to recommendations from the restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, who wrote two government-commissioned reports on obesity and the environment.
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