United Kingdom

Half-baked government food strategy to encourage public to eat more venison

Boris Johnson’s new food strategy was condemned as “bordering on the absurd” after a leak suggested he would reject key recommendations from an independent review, but would urge people to eat more venison.

Calls for more free school meals and a tax on sugar and salt appear to have been ignored, the draft said.

Instead, there will be advice on how to help cows produce less methane and a proposed increase in the use of “responsibly harvested wild venison”.