Tam Fry (Chairman of the UK's National Obesity Forum): “It’s an absolute travesty"

the travesty is this : the new measures to halve childhood obesity by 2030 as announced by UK government.

They include proposals to counter ‘pester power’ by preventing stores from displaying unhealthy food at checkouts or including it in buy-one-get-one-free deals, as well as a consultation on introducing clear, consistent calorie labelling on menus in restaurants, cafés and takeaways.
The Government is calling on industry to recognise the harm that adverts for foods high in fat, sugar and salt can cause.

The guidelines are too little and too weak...

Something more drastic is urgently needed!  
and it starts with E!

Education.

If we don't start educating young people about healthy eating and diets, then these trends will continue to rise and rise...

BMI (in Ireland as opposed to the world)

 

moving backwards

Putin has signed accord to take action against climate change...; what does DUP believe on this?

Yesterday's elections in UK brought DUP into goverment.
Here are six DUP stances we should know about;

one of them is on: Climate denial

While climate change scepticism is not official party “policy”, the DUP has previously appointed a denier as environment minister in Northern Ireland, and it counts a number of creationists among its senior members.

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 Denying climate change has major implications on food sustainability and food security.
Hence, I think we could argue that the new UK goverment and the term "food secutiry" are incompatible...

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Friends of the Earth has expressed concern that the Democratic Unionists will exercise major national influence over the government even though some of the party’s MPs are climate change sceptics.
The most vociferous doubter of climate change is the DUP’s East Antrim MP, Sammy Wilson. He has described the theory of manmade climate change as a “con”. James Orr, Friends of the Earth’s Northern Ireland director, said:

Their manifesto had hardly a positive word on the environment and nothing at all on climate change. Theresa May must not allow the DUP to further weaken her already inadequate manifesto commitments to maintain environmental protections and preserve nature.

Senior members of the DUP have also even denied the theory of evolution. In 2009, when the Ulster Museum hosted an exhibition marking Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the DUP’s Mervyn Storey (who later became a minister in the executive) called for “an alternative exhibition” promoting creationism.
Storey’s election literature from the same period included a photograph of him standing on the Giant’s Causeway, the world heritage site with uniquely hexagonal rocks on the Northern Irish coastline that scientists say is 550m years old – far far older than the biblical claim of the Earth’s age.