- For better school food, and food skills, and protecting children from junk food marketing
- Evidence of the contribution of food and farming to climate change
- Highlighting the connections between diet, mental health and behaviour
- How action can protect the environment, enhance social justice and improve health
- Campaigning for a law on healthy and sustainable food for schools, hospitals, care homes
- Practical help to increase healthy and sustainable food in schools, hospitals, care homes…
- Free training on healthy and sustainable food for public sector caterers
- Local and regional activity that promotes healthy and sustainable food
- Helping producers, consumers, retailers and caterers provide healthy and sustainable food
- Working for sustainable food at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Practical advice for anyone interested in buying and using more sustainable food
- Spreading information about urban food growing in London, the UK and worldwide
- Working in 10 deprived London areas to improve access to affordable and sustainable food
- The best possible round-up of sustainable food news in London
- 2,012 new food growing spaces for London by 2012
- Find or set up a Food Co-op in your area
- To increase the enjoyment, production and consumption of bread made with natural ingredients
Responding to Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley’s announcement today that business will be encouraged to fund the Government’s Change4Life health promotion campaign, Charlie Powell, Director of the Children’s Food Campaign stated:
“Andrew Lansley’s comments will be music to the junk food industry’s ears. It signals that they will have free hand and Government backing to market fatty, sugary and salty foods under the cover of promoting healthy lifestyles.”
“The announcement flies in the face of the coalition Government’s expressed aim to protect children from excessive commercialisation. The Children’s Food Campaign will continue to fight to ensure a future where children are protected from junk food marketing."
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For further information and interviews, please contact Charlie Powell on 020 7837 1228 / 07817 746786 or charlie@sustainweb.org.
Notes to editors:
1. The Children's Food Campaign wants to improve children's health and well-being through better food - and food teaching - in schools, and protecting children from junk food marketing. We are supported by over 300 organisations. The Children's Food Campaign is coordinated by Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming and funded by the British Heart Foundation. For more information please go to: http://www.childrensfoodcampaign.org.uk/
2. Andrew Lansley’s speech this afternoon was to public health doctors attending the Faculty of Public Health conference in London, as reported by the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10541190.stm
3. HM Government’s “The Coalition: our programme for government”, p.19 states: “That is why we need to make our society more family friendly, and to take action to protect children from excessive commercialisation….” Available from: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/409088/pfg_coalition.pdf
