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Articles - UK Government Issues
Published on 10 December 2009, the page
Eat less meat and dairy: official recipe to help health of consumers - and the planet
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Chair's Comment on the article
UK: Government sets out goals for a sustainable food industry. Efforts condemned as shallow by the McCarrison Society.
Mrs Beckett said: "As an industry the food sector has a significant role to play in achieving a sustainable future for this country.
Nothing about achieving sustainable health and nutrition! The Government claims a higher GDP, better economy yet the inequality of health is worse than in 1973 when the incidence of low birthweight was 6.6%. According to the 2005 UNICEF report, it is now 8%.
Dr. Michael A. Crawford, PhD, CBiol, FIBiol, FRCPath
Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition.
Mrs Beckett said: "As an industry the food sector has a significant role to play in achieving a sustainable future for this country.
Nothing about achieving sustainable health and nutrition! The Government claims a higher GDP, better economy yet the inequality of health is worse than in 1973 when the incidence of low birthweight was 6.6%. According to the 2005 UNICEF report, it is now 8%.
This is unacceptable in one of the richest countries in the world.
- Low birthweight is the strongest, single predictor of cerebral palsy, cognitive and or behavioural disorders at school age, chronic ill health and subsequent risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke in adults.
- Low birthweight breeds poverty in a cycle of deprivation. Poverty breeds anti-social behaviour and crime.
Dr. Michael A. Crawford, PhD, CBiol, FIBiol, FRCPath
Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition.
26 April, 2006 - A STRATEGY to tackle the impact of the food industry
on precious resources, such as energy and water and its contribution to
climate change, was published by Margaret Beckett, Secretary of State
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, today.
Mrs Beckett said: "As an industry the food sector has a significant role to play in achieving a sustainable future for this country.
Mrs Beckett said: "As an industry the food sector has a significant role to play in achieving a sustainable future for this country.
Bird 'Flu: POWER POLITICS
We hear political commentators pontificating on bird flu: as indeed we heard similar commentaries during the last Foot and Mouth disaster. ‘The Government’ says this, thinks that, will do this, won’t do that (after crucial days or weeks of delays) etc. Could such spokesmen in future kindly specify to which ‘government’ they refer, Westminster or Brussels?
I seem to remember the foot and mouth debacle was presided over from Brussels by an Irishman. The British beef herd and trade, 11 million poor beasts and how many farmers? being decimated by unelected officials all but one not necessarily with England’s needs closest to their hearts. And perhaps the one English was a vegetarian.
Has our Westminster government tightened up on controls of illegal bush meats from Africa, and meat from countries with known foot and mouth disease? I think not. No wonder politicians are held in such low regard by the electorate that 40% don’t vote. Who can blame them?
I seem to remember the foot and mouth debacle was presided over from Brussels by an Irishman. The British beef herd and trade, 11 million poor beasts and how many farmers? being decimated by unelected officials all but one not necessarily with England’s needs closest to their hearts. And perhaps the one English was a vegetarian.
Has our Westminster government tightened up on controls of illegal bush meats from Africa, and meat from countries with known foot and mouth disease? I think not. No wonder politicians are held in such low regard by the electorate that 40% don’t vote. Who can blame them?
David Marsh, Dip. Agric.