Nation expands as healthy food rolls out of Scotland

Scotland’s multi-billion-pound larder is being exported on a vast scale while the nation eats a deadly diet back home, experts have warned.

Social justice campaigners have criticised the “disconnect between food as money, and food as health and nutrition” as Scottish exports of fresh fruit, vegetables and fish boom, while figures for obesity and food poverty rocket nationwide.

Nourish Scotland raised its concerns in Edinburgh last week at an event focused on Ambition 2030, a government-backed project developed by Scotland Food & Drink, a partnership of farming, fishing, food and drink sector organisations, which aims to increase the sector’s turnover from £14bn to £30bn by 2030.

The group said that while some progress is being made on diet, ministers and industry should show equal ambition…

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