The Scotsman

Dismay as Scotland’s Good Food bill put on ice

- By ILONA AMOS

Campaigner­s have hit out at the Scottish Government’s decision to mothball plans to introduce a Good Food Nation bill in the next 12 months.

The proposed bill was intended to tackle food challenges such as child poverty, obesity and environmen­tal impacts. The new Programme for Government instead adopts a Good Food Nation programme, which will consider new laws.

Members of the Scottish Food Coalition say it’s a missed opportunit­y.

Pete Ritchie, director of Nourish Scotland, said: “The measure of a worldclass food system is not how much food and drink we can export but how well we can nourish all our citizenssu­stainablyw­hileprovid­ing good jobs for all who work in food. Scotland has all the ingredient­s to deliver this, and the public are behind it. We just need the political will.”

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