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May 13, 2022 6 tweets 5 min read Read on X
There have been rumours this week that Government is considering a delay or U-turn on banning multi-buy deals on #junkfood.

This would be a #FalseEconomy.

🧵A short thread👇 [1/6]
These regs were brought in to tackle #obesity. During Covid-19 obesity rates have risen dramatically & the NHS is under more pressure than ever. There's an urgent need for Govt to introduce evidence-based policies to help.
Source: our #data dashboard foodfoundation.org.uk/childrens-righ… [2/6]
Junk food multi-buys are well-known to encourage unnecessary unplanned purchases & therefore ⬆️spending.

The Govt’s own figures show they increase the amount of food purchased by 22%. Allowing retailers to continue to use them won’t help with the cost of living crisis [3/6]
Our new polling shows people want to see promotions on core essentials over junk food. Banning junk food multi-buys should encourage businesses to reformulate products & promote essentials instead🥔🥕🥦-promotions that actually help save people money on their core food shop [4/6]
@LidlGB has never used this type of promotion as they recognise they don't save customers money overall. @sainsburys have phased them out too.

Other businesses have invested significant resources in preparing for implementation of these regs & will be frustrated by delays [5/6]
We hope that the Government does not cave to the pressure of a few very vocal backbench MPs on this, and instead sticks firm and follows their own evidence [6/6]

#JunkFoodAds #BOFOD #Obesity #AdEnough

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May 13, 2022
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This week MP Lee Anderson made comments blaming high levels of food bank use on a lack of cooking and budgeting skills. He claimed a nutritious meal could easily be cooked for 30p. Was he right?
#CostOfLivingCrisis [1/11]
Rising food insecurity isn’t caused by people not knowing how to cook – families are facing skyrocketing food/fuel prices and incomes aren’t keeping up. Teaching people to cook is not on its own the answer, and cooking from scratch isn’t always cheap.
#CostOfLivingCrisis [2/11]
In fact, cooking skills are not lower in low income groups: studies show people report high levels of confidence in cooking skills and this doesn’t substantially vary across socio-demographic groups bit.ly/3FCpJb6
#CostOfLivingCrisis [3/11]
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