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We
could say we want "Food for Sustainabilty" - ie food that is
healthier
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for
people and the planet, and that all subsidies should encourage just
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that.
That which markets manifestly fail to deliver.
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So -
as a start, subsidies should encourage the following:
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For
health: More vegetables, more fruit, more fish oil, lower
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additives/pesticide
residues, less sugar/salt and end food poverty.
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For
planet: More seasonally grown local vegetables, more diverse
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temperate
fruit, more fish farms to organic standards, much less
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fertilser,
less food miles, and less animals.
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This
is much better than having intensive production of cheap food,
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but
wasting millions of hectares of land eg ¾ million hectares of UK
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land
is “set aside”reat chunks of rough grazing.
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Farmers
would get back to producing food - that is healthier for all, rather
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than
making picture postcards for urban radicals. Much more at
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www.sustainablefood.com
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