Five a day will be at risk. Oh noes!
Five-a-day eating targets for fruit and vegetables could become unaffordable for millions of low-income families as a result of Brexit-related food price rises, a report says.
The Food Foundation says that already-feeble consumption rates of healthy food in the UK could nosedive under Brexit because the triple impact of exchange rates, labour costs and tariffs could add up to £158 a year to the amount a family of four spends on fruit and vegetables.
This is scaremongering, nothing more. And while we are at it, if we are paying for this thinktank, then we should immediately cease all of its funding. Firstly, there are no targets. The very idea that anyone anywhere should give us targets on our diet is deeply repugnant. Secondly, leaving the EU will not necessarily mean higher food prices. What is it with these fuckwits? There is no obligation on our government to charge tariffs. The WTO rules merely state maximum tariffs – not what must be imposed. So, it’s perfectly possible for the UK government to have no import tariffs at all.
Attempts by the Department of Health to encourage people to eat more fruit and vegetables – a key strand of its strategy to reduce the burden on the NHS of diet-related illness, such as obesity – would be undermined by Brexit food price rises, the report adds.
How about the government stops taking around 50% of our income to spend on wibble such as this? That way, those poor families would keep more of their own money to spend as they see fit.
Eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day is…
Is made up bullshit pulled out of the arses of the cockwidgets who came up with it. It has no basis in science at all. Much like the maximum alcohol consumption cockwaffle.
Checked on their sources of funding and it’s a mix of food industry, charities and tapping into dead people’s legacies. This time it’s the chap who brought us Morris cars. The Nuffield foundation.
http://foodfoundation.org.uk/about/#how-are-we-funded
Noteworthy are the people employed by FF. Stacks of them with no glass ceiling whatsoever.
But they do state they work “in the interests of the UK public”. So it’s not themselves, which is my take.
I remember reading years ago that the CAP added about £1,000 a year to the average family’s food bill, a figure I have never seen rebutted.
At least £1,000pa, probably much more as so much is hidden or due to higher costs complying with nonsensical EU Rules (eg Jam & Marmalade).
Adding in CFP probably adds another £400.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/204098
http://ffl.org.uk/