Government’s ‘half-baked’ food strategy to encourage people to eat more venison

• Boris Johnson’s new food strategy denounced as ‘preposterous’; after leaked draft suggests it will reject key recommendations from an independent review.
• Calls to expand free school meals; and for a sugar and salt tax appear to have been ignored, the draft suggests.
• Instead there will be a consultation on how to help cows produce less methane.

Boris Johnson’s new food plan has been branded “bordering on the absurd”; after a leaked copy revealed that it will reject crucial suggestions from an independent assessment; while encouraging people to eat more venison. Calls to increase free school meals and impose a sugar and salt tax appear to have gone unheeded; according to the draught paper. Instead, there will be a consultation on how to assist cows emit less methane; as well as a recommendation that “responsibly procured wild venison” be used more frequently.

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In 2019, the government appointed Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of Leon restaurant; to oversee a review of England’s food system to ensure it was “safe, healthy, and affordable” for all. In his final report, published in 2021; he recommended a sugar and salt reformulation levy as a major strategy to help millions of people change their diets.

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