What is the government’s food strategy and why is it under fire?

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What is the government’s food strategy and why is it under fire?
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But for Kath Dalmeny, chief executive of farming group Sustain, it is not enough. She said: “In the face of multiple crises in the cost of living, rocketing obesity, climate change and nature loss, the government food strategy looks shamefully weak … This isn’t a strategy, it’s a feeble to-do list, that may or may not get ticked.”

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