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7/15/2021 3:54:07 AM

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'they' seem to be pitching inflation as a health additive?

bloomberg.com

U.K. Urged to Tax Sugar, Salt in Fight Against Junk Food Diets
Agnieszka de Sousa
15 July 2021, 07:01 GMT+8
The U.K. should adopt a broad tax on sugar and salt sales and improve food equality as poor diets take a toll on the economy and people’s health, recommendations in a government-commissioned review show.

Britain should introduce the world’s first sugar and salt reformulation tax and use some of the proceeds to expand free school meals and support diets in deprived communities, according to the National Food Strategy. It stopped short on recommending a levy on meat, while calling for measures to cut consumption of those products by 30% in the next decade.

Britain is facing an array of food challenges -- from growing obesity to concerns about providing the poorest children with nutritious food -- and has already introduced a tax on sugar in soft drinks. At the same time, the country is trying to reduce agriculture’s impact on the environment, while redrawing global trade relations in the wake of Brexit.

Consumption Shift
Changes needed by 2032 to meet health, climate and nature commitments

Source: National Food Strategy; Compared with 2019

* High in Fat, Sugar or Salt

“The way we produce food is doing terrible damage to the environment and to our bodies, and putting an intolerable strain” on the National Health Service, said Henry Dimbleby, the review’s lead author. “Covid-19 has been a painful reality check. Our high obesity rate has been a major factor in the U.K.’s tragically high death rate.”

The strategy published Thursday is the second part of the study, which is billed as the first major review of British food in 75 years.

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Poor diets contribute to about 64,000 deaths every year in England alone and cost the economy 74 billion pounds ($103 billion) a year, the equivalent of cutting the U.K.’s gross domestic product by 3.4%.

The recommended tax would charge 3 pounds per kilogram of sugar and 6 pounds per kilogram of salt sold wholesale, for use in processed foods, in restaurants and the catering sector. That would encourage manufacturers to change recipes or reduce portion sizes, and could raise 2.9 billion to 3.4 billion pounds a year for state coffers.

Other recommendations and highlights

Food companies with more than 250 employees should be required to disclose sales of fruit, vegetables, protein and products high in fat, sugar or salt.

A meat tax would be “politically impossible,” and the government would be better off encouraging consumers to opt for alternative proteins and finding ways to help cut meat demand.

There should be investment in sustainable farming and new food technologies to protect the environment.

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