{"id":55168,"date":"2020-09-26T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T13:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55168"},"modified":"2020-09-26T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T13:54:58","slug":"the-lwa-response-to-the-national-food-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55168","title":{"rendered":"The LWA Response to the National Food Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE LWA RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL FOOD STRATEGY<\/a><\/h3>\n

\u2018Another food system is possible and urgent, but this won\u2019t get us there\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Be bolder, go further\u2019<\/b><\/div>\n
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A few weeks ago, Part 1 of the\u00a0National Food Strategy<\/a>\u00a0(NFS) was released. Rebecca Laughton, a grower and campaigns coordinator for Landworkers Alliance, and co-author of the Peoples\u2019 Food Policy is on the advisory panel. However, she was not allowed to share the report with us for comment in advance of its release, nor was she given time to discuss and debate the content, as would be expected of an Advisory Panel.The need for a National Food Strategy is pressing. A NFS should be a collectively determined vision and set of policies designed to get there. It should be drawn from the lived experiences of a cross section of civil society. When compared to the People\u2019s Food Policy, produced by LWA in collaboration with many other unions, organisations and NGOs on a limited budget, the democratic mandate, vision and strength of proposals is disappointing.\u00a0As it stands the NFS is not a strategy; it\u2019s a synthesis of information collected by Henry Dimbleby \u2013 an entrepreneur who owns LEON\u2019s restaurants. He has met with a wide range of people and read a huge array of documents, but we\u2019ve ended up with an essay of Henry\u2019s thoughts on the food system, rather than a democratic roadmap for our food system.<\/p>\n

Reclaiming our food system<\/b><\/p>\n

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The report begins with a damning critique of the health impacts of the industrial food system and makes some brave recommendations to a government that has historically left food to the market. It states that\u00a0\u201cThe single most important force that shapes our food environment is the free market,\u201d<\/i> and makes the case for intervention to correct market failures. It calls for regulation to protect public health, defends taxation (the sugar tax) and other interventions.<\/p>\n

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THE LWA RESPONSE TO THE NATIONAL FOOD STRATEGY \u2018Another food system is possible and urgent, but this won\u2019t get us there\u2019 \u2018Be bolder, go further\u2019 A few weeks ago, Part 1 of the\u00a0National Food Strategy\u00a0(NFS) was released. Rebecca Laughton, a grower and campaigns coordinator for Landworkers Alliance, and co-author of the Peoples\u2019 Food Policy is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1912,30365,30366,607],"class_list":["post-55168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food-production","tag-land-workers-alliance","tag-national-food-strategy","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55169,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55168\/revisions\/55169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}