The Food Foundation response to the House of Lords food, diet and obesity committee report, RECIPE FOR HEALTH: A PLAN TO FIX OUR BROKEN FOOD SYSTEM

Anna Taylor, Executive Director, The Food Foundation, said, “This brilliant report rightly states that supporting people in Britain to eat well is the single most important priority for the prevention of ill health.  Everything else dwarfs into insignificance when you look at the evidence.  The Committee has done just what the government needs and set out a set of affordable and feasible recommendations.  Their 3 big areas for action are first  a systematic regulatory crackdown on businesses which continue to relentlessly push low nutrient foods  which are loaded with calories; second a raft of measures which government can introduce to support children to get the good nutrition they need to grow; and third the steps needed to ensure that good policies can be developed into the future, and progress can be monitored – including a new law which sets out our expectations of the food system to protect the nation's health.  All can be initiated in the next five years and I hope that the Prime Minister takes this list and makes it his personal priority.”