date:May 15, 2012
The Environmental Audit Committee highlighted the need for improved education, more effective research and revised public sector food procurement and supermarket sustainability schemes.
Joan Walley, chair of the committee and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, said:Our food system is failing. Obesity and diet related illness is on the increase, fewer young people are being taught how to cook or grow food, and advertisers are targeting kids with junk food ads on the internet.
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