UK Survey (sample size 2136): 58% support taxing sugary and salty products, and 53% support taxing #UltraProcessedFood.
#HealthTax revenue should support low-income families' health with increased fruit and vegetable consumption.
“Taxing unhealthy products prompts many companies to reformulate them in order to avoid paying the tax and thus benefits #PublicHealth."
Obesity costs the UK £98bn a year.
#UPF #FoodIndustry #HealthyDiet #PublicPolicy #policy #diet #obesity
🤯Look at the utterly cynical reply from the #FoodIndustry:
"Responding to Ipsos’s findings, the Food and Drink Federation, which represents most #FoodProducers, said companies should be allowed to develop healthier products – such as by removing salt, sugar and calories and adding fibre, fruit and vegetables – rather than face taxes."
Who does not allow corporations to develop healthier foods? To make them less sweet? To make them less salty? To use healthier ingredients?
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OK, this other #FoodIndustry reply is even more appalling and so so so typical TBH:
“Rather than taxes, we believe that supporting all sizes of companies to innovate in healthier products would deliver more and at better value for money.”
They are immediately spinning this survey result into an opportunity to ask for government (i.e. taxpayer) funding as if these corporations wouldn't make fat profits and wouldn't pay massive salaries to their top managers.
I agree that governments should fund innovation in food production as long as it is for sustainable #AlternativeProtein, but these funds should go to startups and researchers and into protecting patents and new technologies from being monopolised by corporations.
Corporations have enough money of their own to invest and innovate to enter these markets, and they should, it's a great new business opportunity. Also, they could support #CultivatedFood approval/acceptance with their lobbying power.
This article is a fantastic summary of the type of #CultivatedFood #innovation needed.❤️
It also depicts a worrying political environment where the public will have to speak up and demand the legal and financial support for #AlternativeProtein.
The #LivestockFarming lobbyists and their lapdog politicians will never stop. They were living on their taxpayer funded subsidies for so long that the sheer thought of something new and better freaks them out.
Another good (and short!) article explaining the need for sustainable
#AlternativeProtein
#CultivatedFood
#CellularAgriculture
#MicrobialProtein
#MicrobialFermentation
(it has many names 🤓)
The article explains the necessity and thus the inevitability to put money and political clout behind these new technologies and help them scale-up ASAP. Also highlights their positive effects on the environment and humans.
In case somebody is interested in something more highbrow, scientific and detailed, you can download the document prepared for the #EuropeanParliament titled #AlternativeProtein sources for food and feed (only 90 pages long 😉).
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_STU(2024)757806
#EuropeanUnion #EU #ClimateChange
#ClimateAction #CultivatedFood #CellularAgriculture #MicrobialProtein #MicrobialFermentation #FoodTech #AgriFoodTech #ClimatePolicy
