Seventy organizations that work for the environment, health or consumer protection are asking the Government this Monday to “resist the pressure of certain lobbies” to present a food strategy for the summer “at the level of ecological issues, social justice and public health”. “.
In an open letter to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, these organizations (Action Against Hunger, League Against Cancer, Climate Action Network, UFC-Que Choisir, etc.) urge “the government to learn from the failure of past policies” about food.
“Our diet plays an important role in climate change, the collapse of biodiversity and the explosion of non-communicable chronic diseases (cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, cancer, etc.)” which “affect the poorest and most precarious people first ”, they write.
“Determining the orientations of the sustainable food policy”
They ask the Government to “resist the pressures of certain agricultural and agri-food lobbies” opposed to the prohibition of advertising “of products that are harmful to health and the planet” or even set the goal of reducing the consumption of meat and dairy products.
The Climate and Resilience Law, approved in 2021, provides for a “national food, nutrition and climate strategy” (SNANC) to be developed before July 1, 2023.
According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture, this strategy must, in particular, “determine the orientations of the sustainable food policy, which emits less greenhouse gases, respects human health, protects biodiversity more (…)”.
Source: BFM TV
