Campaigners take legal action over England's food strategy failures
Food activists are taking the government to court for failing to support the transition to low-carbon diets by encouraging people to eat less meat.< /p>
Global Feedback, which campaigns for regenerative food production, says the government's food strategy ignores the view that reducing levels of meat consumption and of dairy products is crucial to achieving the country's net zero goals.
The food strategy was released in June with a chorus of criticism, including from experts that the government had mandated to help formulate it.
In a pre-complaint letter, which is necessary to seek judicial review, Feedback points to the advice of Henry Dimbleby, l businessman behind the restaurant chain ation Leon, who called in a government-commissioned report for a 30% reduction in meat and dairy consumption by 2032.
He puts also highlight the advice of the Commit tee on Climate Change (CCC), an independent public body, that a change in diet is "particularly important", and calls for a 20% reduction in the consumption of meat and dairy products by 2030 as part of its "Balanced Net Zero Pathway" scenario.
The feedback letter states: "The food strategy made no mention and did not showed disregard for clear advice on reducing meat and dairy from both the CCC and [Dimbleby's] independent review; or even any consideration of the question they had raised. gas 30 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. It is removed from the atmosphere much faster than CO2, making methane reduction measures one of the most effective short-term actions that can be taken to mitigate climate breakdown.
Carina Millstone, the executive director of Feedback, said: “By failing to take action to support the reduction of meat and dairy products, against the advice of Henry Dimbleby and the Committee on climate change, the government is committing to extensive agricultural methane emissions.
"Rather than committing all of us to climate chaos, we want the government to go back to the drawing board and deliver the strategy we were promised: a strategy that really meets the needs of the climate and nature."
Rob Percival, food policy manager at the Soil Association, said his organization is broadly supportive of action by justice, although she has no formal role. But alongside the focus on methane emissions from ruminants, Percival said action also needed to be taken on industrial pork and chicken production, which account for the majority of meat consumed in the UK.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs declined to comment.
Food activists are taking the government to court for failing to support the transition to low-carbon diets by encouraging people to eat less meat.< /p>
Global Feedback, which campaigns for regenerative food production, says the government's food strategy ignores the view that reducing levels of meat consumption and of dairy products is crucial to achieving the country's net zero goals.
The food strategy was released in June with a chorus of criticism, including from experts that the government had mandated to help formulate it.
In a pre-complaint letter, which is necessary to seek judicial review, Feedback points to the advice of Henry Dimbleby, l businessman behind the restaurant chain ation Leon, who called in a government-commissioned report for a 30% reduction in meat and dairy consumption by 2032.
He puts also highlight the advice of the Commit tee on Climate Change (CCC), an independent public body, that a change in diet is "particularly important", and calls for a 20% reduction in the consumption of meat and dairy products by 2030 as part of its "Balanced Net Zero Pathway" scenario.
The feedback letter states: "The food strategy made no mention and did not showed disregard for clear advice on reducing meat and dairy from both the CCC and [Dimbleby's] independent review; or even any consideration of the question they had raised. gas 30 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. It is removed from the atmosphere much faster than CO2, making methane reduction measures one of the most effective short-term actions that can be taken to mitigate climate breakdown.
Carina Millstone, the executive director of Feedback, said: “By failing to take action to support the reduction of meat and dairy products, against the advice of Henry Dimbleby and the Committee on climate change, the government is committing to extensive agricultural methane emissions.
"Rather than committing all of us to climate chaos, we want the government to go back to the drawing board and deliver the strategy we were promised: a strategy that really meets the needs of the climate and nature."
Rob Percival, food policy manager at the Soil Association, said his organization is broadly supportive of action by justice, although she has no formal role. But alongside the focus on methane emissions from ruminants, Percival said action also needed to be taken on industrial pork and chicken production, which account for the majority of meat consumed in the UK.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs declined to comment.
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