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Great to see #NationalFoodStrategy report out today. A bold step towards using land to deliver healthier eating and tackling environmental damage that @theCCCuk has been calling for. Now we need gov to act. ↓thread.
#NationalFoodStrategy advises ambitious goal of 30% reduction in meat reduction in 10 years – faster than @theCCCuk pathway; key factor in reducing emissions and releasing land for carbon sequestration. 
This swanky Sankey shows land inefficiency of producing meat: using 85% of land and delivering just 14% of calories and 22% of protein.
The @food_strategy focuses on 2️⃣ most urgent problems embedded in the food system:
1. The “Junk Food Cycle” 🍔🍫🔄 🍕🍟
2. The “Invisibility of Nature” 🐝🌳👩🌾
The aim?
🌍 Healthy planet
🫂 Healthy people
🆘This is critically urgent given the Covid pandemic & climate crisis.
1. The “Junk Food Cycle” 🍔🍫🔄 🍕🍟
2. The “Invisibility of Nature” 🐝🌳👩🌾
The aim?
🌍 Healthy planet
🫂 Healthy people
🆘This is critically urgent given the Covid pandemic & climate crisis.
Tragically our diet in Britain is killing us and making us sick.
It’s the diet we’re raising our children on.
Four out of the top five risk factors for years of healthy life lost to avoidable illness, disability & death are diet related (the four largest pink bubbles)👇🏽
It’s the diet we’re raising our children on.
Four out of the top five risk factors for years of healthy life lost to avoidable illness, disability & death are diet related (the four largest pink bubbles)👇🏽
#NationalFoodStrategy We welcome the call for an extension of entitlement to free school meals. Our CEO @alisongcpag: “Extending free school meals to kids whose parents receive universal credit would be a good step forward in protecting most disadvantaged... 1/n
"...but the evidence shows that free school meals for all kids would achieve so much more. When lunch is free for all, children’s school results are boosted, their diet improves and parents struggling to make ends meet have more to spend on nutritious breakfasts & dinners... 2/n
"The support for @MarcusRashford's recent intervention showed there’s a feeling across the UK that we’ve become too mean about providing for children in school. We don’t means-test any other part of the school day so why do we food – so critical for children’s development? 3/4
