UK government food strategy lacks ambition to achieve transformative food system change.
UK government food strategy lacks ambition to achieve transformative food system change.
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英国政府的粮食战略缺乏实现粮食系统变革的雄心。
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10.1038/s43016-022-00558-z
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发表时间：
2022
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23.2
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Doherty B
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作者：
Doherty B
致编辑——亨利·丁布尔比 (Henry Dimbleby) 去年发布了对英国食品体系的独立审查，提供了他所说的“重塑食品体系的千载难逢的机会” 1. 政府现已发布食品战略，对审查结果和建议做出回应 2. 虽然我们欢迎政府食品战略的某些方面，但它远远没有达到食品体系变革所需的措施和紧迫性。认识到食品对人类的重要性为了国家健康、环境和经济，英国政府委托对食品系统进行 75 年来首次重大独立审查。这项独立审查由环境、食品和农村事务部 (Defra) 的商人兼非执行董事会成员亨利·丁布比 (Henry Dimbleby) 领导，涉及全面的证据综合，以及全国范围内的公开对话（根据审查的职权范围，仅限于英格兰）。它提供了粮食系统对生物多样性丧失、森林砍伐、干旱、淡水污染、水生野生动物灭绝和气候变化的贡献的证据，以及高度加工食品对人类健康的不利影响。审查确定了四项战略目标和 14 项合理的建议（框 1）。该独立审查列出了未来十年英国饮食需要如何改变，以实现政府在健康、气候和自然方面的现有目标。到2032年，水果和蔬菜消费量必须增加30%，纤维消费量必须增加50%，而高饱和脂肪、盐和糖的食物消费量必须减少25%，肉类消费量必须减少30%。该审查呼吁征收强制性糖和盐重新配制税，其中部分收入将用于扩大免费学校膳食并支持生活在最贫困社区的人们的饮食。它呼吁将食品教育作为国家课程的核心，并在任何新的贸易协议中保护食品标准。它建议采取措施恢复和保护自然环境，通过投资可持续农业技术和新食品技术，以及为公众提供保护的措施。
To the Editor—Henry Dimbleby’s independent review of the UK food system was published last year, providing what he called a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape the food system” 1. The government has now published its food strategy, responding to the review’s findings and recommendations 2. While we welcome some aspects of the government’s food strategy, it falls far short of the measures and urgency required for the transformative change the food system needs.Recognizing the importance of food to the nation’s health, environment and economy, the UK government commissioned the first major independent review of the food system in 75 years. The independent review, which was led by businessperson and non-executive board member of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Henry Dimbleby, involved a comprehensive synthesis of evidence, coupled with public dialogues across the nation (limited, in accordance with the review’s remit, to England). It presented evidence of the food system’s contribution to biodiversity loss, deforestation, drought, freshwater pollution, the collapse of aquatic wildlife and climate change, and of the adverse effects of highly processed food on human health. The review identified four strategic objectives with 14 well-reasoned recommendations (Box 1). The independent review set out how UK diets will need to change over the next ten years to meet the government’s existing targets on health, climate and nature. By 2032, fruit and vegetable consumption will have to increase by 30% and fibre consumption by 50%, while consumption of food high in saturated fat, salt and sugar will have to decrease by 25% and meat consumption by 30%. The review called for a mandatory sugar and salt reformulation tax, with some of the revenue to be used to expand free school meals and support the diets of those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods. It called for food education to be central to the national curriculum, and for food standards to be protected in any new trade deals. It recommended measures to restore and protect the natural environment, by investing in sustainable farming techniques and new food technologies, and measures for public