Picture shows MSP’s and Scottish Food Coalition campaigners at the Scottish Parliament today which sees the Scottish Food Coalition and other campaigners from across the country gather at the Scottish Parliament to show their support for substantial reform of Scotland’s food system.
Campaigners piece together a better food system
We all need food to survive, but there is much more to food than growing and eating. Scotland’s food system is a complex jigsaw puzzle, the pieces of which don’t yet fit together properly.
Today sees the Scottish Food Coalition and other campaigners from across the country gather at the Scottish Parliament to show their support for substantial reform of Scotland’s food system.
The Parliament is currently considering the Good Food Nation (Scotland) Bill, which activists hope will help piece together a food system which is fairer, healthier and more sustainable. Campaigners use a giant 3D jigsaw puzzle outside Holyrood to represent the disparate parts of the food system, and call for politicians to fit the pieces together properly under the banner of the Bill.
Individual pieces of the food system currently don’t fit together effectively. Professor Mary Brennan, Chair of the Scottish Food Coalition, and other supporters call for the Bill to deliver on three key objectives to make significant improvements in the long term.
“We are looking for the Bill to establish an independent Food Commission for Scotland, to set ambitious and measurable targets across the whole food system, and to ensure that everyone’s right to food – one of the basic human rights – is protected in law.”
Good Food Nation Bill campaigners think that the establishment of a Food Commission is an essential step in the process. Stephanie Mander of Nourish Scotland says, “We need a new Food Commission that is independent of government; steers collective progress towards a better food system and provides objective oversight.”
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