TRUE COST OF CHEAP FOOD IS HEALTH AND CLIMATE CRISIS!
True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission... Radical change needed to make UK food and farming system sustainable within 10 years... The commission said agriculture produced more than 10% of the UK’s climate-heating gases and was the biggest destroyer of wildlife. The true cost of cheap, unhealthy food is a spiralling public health crisis and environmental destruction, according to a high-level commission. It said the UK’s food and farming system must be radically transformed and become sustainable within 10 years. The commission’s report , which was welcomed by the environment secretary, Michael Gove, concluded that farmers must be enabled to shift from intensive farming to more organic and wildlife friendly production, raising livestock on grass and growing more nuts and pulses. It also said a National Nature Service should be created to give opportunities for young people to work in the countryside and, for example, tackle the climate crisis by...