2023-05-15 01:00:08
Will the government commit to a proactive policy of transition to healthy and sustainable food? As proposed by the members of the citizens’ convention for the climate in 2019, and fixed in the Climate and Resilience Law of 2021, the executive must present – in theory before 1is July, but all observers agree that this timetable will not be respected – a “national strategy for food, nutrition and climate” (Snanc). Originally, this request was intended to get out of compartmentalized sectoral measures, and to combine environment, health and food.
While the general public has hardly heard of the acronym Snanc, which is still little known, this strategy is already raising expectations from civil society, which is mobilizing to set clear transition paths. It also worries some economic players, who fear the imposition of new constraints.
While the government has so far let nothing leak out of its arbitrations, the different camps are preparing their weapons. Last episode: Monday, May 15, seventy environmental and public health organizations, consumer associations, health professionals, and learned societies, published an open letter to the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, to ask that the Snanc “clearly sets out ambitious and specific goals for the transition of our food” et “plans structural policies along the food chain”making access for all to sustainable food a priority.
Such a united front is rare: from the Climate Action Network (RAC) to UFC-Que Choisir, from the French Federation of Diabetics to the League Against Cancer, from the French Society of Public Health to the Young Doctors Union and the French Association of Dieticians-Nutritionists, these entities call “the government to resist the pressure of certain agricultural and agri-food lobbies and to follow the recommendations shared by scientists and civil society so that the Snanc is up to the ecological, social justice and public health challenges”. They ask that the strategy not be just a vague text but that it sets out real tools and measures to improve the supply and the food environment.
Divisions of the National Food Council
“The scope of this strategy will depend on the arbitrations that will be made very soon by the Prime Ministerexplains Benoît Granier, food manager at the RAC. It should not be yet another plan, but a structuring strategy, which sets objectives, but also concrete tools to achieve them, which can then be applied in regulations or by law. » These civil society organizations hope in particular for measures to regulate the environment and the food supply, such as the banning of advertisements for products that are the worst for health or the environment.
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