The Fife Diet have put forward 20 ideas to change the food system in their recently published Food Manifesto. Proposals in the manifesto include a moratorium on supermarket expansion, a small tax in unhealthy fizzy drinks and no child to leave school without knowing how to make soup.
The aims of the new food manifesto are to:
- Connect the way we grow, produce, distribute and consume our food with our climate change targets
- Connect the environmental policy framework to our health and well-being initiatives
- Look afresh at the values that underpin how we organise our food economy
Fife Diet propose food sovereignty replacing food security as the guiding principle for their policy, and explore the opportunities for collaborative gains between the agendas of community food and health, affordability and sustainability.
Source: Scotland National Rural Network
