Environmental campaigners have launched a legal challenge against the government’s food strategy for England, arguing its lack of plans to cut meat and dairy consumption breaks laws including the Climate Change Act.
Lawyers at Leigh Day, acting on behalf of the campaign group Feedback, on Tuesday filed a claim for judicial review at the High Court. They said the government had failed to take into account environmental advice from its own climate change committee and its adviser Henry Dimbleby in formulating the strategy for England, which was released in June.
Dimbleby and the committee have both pushed for significant cuts in the country’s reliance on meat and dairy, but such a policy would be politically contentious.
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