Report: True cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission

This The Guardian article discusses the true cost of cheap food is health and climate crises, says commission. Radical change needed to make UK food and farming system sustainable within 10 years. The commission’s report, which was welcomed by the environment secretary, Michael Gove, concluded that farmers must be enabled to shift from intensive farming to more organic and wildlife friendly production, raising livestock on grass and growing more nuts and pulses. It also said a National Nature Service should be created to give opportunities for young people to work in the countryside and, for example, tackle the climate crisis by planting trees or restoring peatlands.

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