Salt and sugar taxes should be introduced to drive a revolution in Britain’s diet, a government-ordered review has concluded.
The National Food Strategy argues that people must cut their meat intake by a third and up to a fifth of farmland should be turned over to woods and wildlife. It is part of a “farm to fork” reset of how Britain produces and eats its food to cut carbon emissions and obesity.
Henry Dimbleby, author of the report, takes aim at the lack of environmental standards in the government’s plans for post-Brexit trade deals. He argues that “the food we eat — and the way we produce it — is doing terrible damage to our planet and to our health”.
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