A right to food would strengthen the fragile Food Strategy

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The new food strategy needs foundations that outlast ministerial shuffles – we need a right to food, says Elta Smith, chair of the Food Ethics Council

Credit where it’s due: the UK government’s new food strategy represents genuine progress. By acknowledging that our food system is caught in self-reinforcing cycles of poor health, environmental damage and growing vulnerability to shocks, it shows much-needed joined-up thinking from Whitehall.

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