ALLIANCE response to proposed Right to Food (Scotland) Bill
- Area of Work: The ALLIANCE
- Type: News Item
- Published: 11th February 2022
The ALLIANCE has responded to Rhoda Grant MSP's consultation on the proposed Right to Food Bill.
The ALLIANCE welcomes the public consultation on Rhoda Grant MSP’s proposed Right to Food (Scotland) Bill and has submitted a response (available below).
The ALLIANCE believes that keeping food as a key policy concern is important if Scotland is to counter injustices in our current food system. We support wider calls from Food Train, the Scottish Food Coalition, Nourish Scotland, and Common Weal (amongst others) that everyone should have access to high quality food, as a human right. We suggest that it is essential that people’s equitable access to food is considered as part of the design and implementation of policy across Scotland. Such actions would be in keeping with wider Scottish Government commitments to ensure that “by 2025, Scotland will be a Good Food Nation where people from every walk of life take pride and pleasure in, and benefit from, the food they produce, buy, cook, serve and eat each day”.[i]
[i] Scottish Government, Recipe for Success: Scotland’s national food and drink policy, becoming a Good Food Nation (June 2014), p. 5, available at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/recipe-success-scotlands-national-food-drink-policy-becoming-good-food/ (this link will take you away from our website).
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