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The Food Programme

The Food Strategy: Is There One?

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4943 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dan Saladino and Sheila Dillon dig deep into the details of the newly published Government Food Strategy.

Produced by Dan Saladino.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

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0:06.7

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0:16.8

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0:19.5

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0:23.0

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0:28.4

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0:29.4

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0:38.0

Think back to when the world changed and COVID entered our lives.

0:43.7

There was a moment when it seemed some good would come from the pandemic.

0:47.7

Even our food and our diets could be transformed for the better.

0:52.2

There was even a bold strategy. Remember this?

0:56.0

Well there are two ways this can go right? I think there is post-COVID a huge energy

1:01.2

for change. If we don't do that, nature will collapse. Our

1:06.0

hostels will become overrun and it will be much, much more expensive treating and

1:10.6

even worse disaster that we have at the moment. And I don't think that's an option but that is you know I treating an

1:13.7

even worse disaster that we have at the moment and I don't think that's an option but that is you know either way it's

1:15.5

going to change right either way it's going to change it's just whether we want to change

1:18.6

it before it gets that bad. Henry Dimbleby founder of the Leon restaurant chain and co-founder of chefs in schools,

1:27.0

speaking on the food program last year.

1:29.0

He'd been charged by Michael Gove, then Secretary of State for Defra, to think radically about the future

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