Sentences with phrase «subsidised food»

The controversial new law commits the government to providing heavily subsidised food to around 819 million poor people in urban and rural areas.

The company says the tablet is aimed at ensuring efficient delivery of subsidised food products under the Public Distribution System (PDS), comprehensive monitoring of various healthcare initiatives and several other flagship programmes run by the central and state governments.

The Tories estimate they can save  # 120 million through the measures, which would also see the end of subsidised food and drink in the Palace of Westminster.

Our taxpayer - subsidised food system which has taken over our ability to look after ourselves; how corporate bureaucracy stifles real entrepreneurial ambitions and is also unaccountable and out of touch; how we need to nurture families to address poverty and inequality; the way in which the needs of children are undervalued and finally how we relate to the world around us.

The idea of subsidised food being a different menu from the paid for foods is abhorrent and I wish you well in your campaigns to get that point heard.

This could be used to increase NHS funding during a period of budget restrictions or to subsidise foods with health benefits, such as fruit and vegetables.

Your tax dollars and euros are subsidising foods that will kill you (and your government will save money on pension) or make you sick in younger age (and you will pay through tax or insurance for treatment) instead of foods that will save you and the planet.

Not exact matches

Food industry sources say the major retailers are using private label groceries to gain market power and increase profit margins at the expense of branded suppliers, which are subsidising private label with profits from brands.

«On the one hand, the authors argue that the financial stress caused by five new food and drink taxes can be counterbalanced by subsidising fruit and vegetables.

The complex houses CPUT's department of food technology, formed in 2006 from the consolidation of the existing units on its Cape Town and Bellville campuses, and the Agrifood Technology Station, a government - subsidised consulting system that assists small businesses.

In other words, less subsidised over-production of corn in the US, and more food crops grown by small farmers in the developing world.

Javier Rivas, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bath, discusses the potential of subsidising healthy foods to tackle obesity in the UK.

Generally, Capitalist Governments have chosen to subsidise private food production, and rely on welfare payments to ensure they everyone can access this food.

He said the Department of Food and Agriculture in the District had already received inputs to be sold to farmers at subsidised prices.

Taxing junk food and subsidising healthier options could save Australia billions of dollars by preventing people from getting sick.

But the Australian government has no plans to either tax unhealthy food or subsidise fruit and vegetables.

If Australia taxed junk food and subsidised fruit and veg, it would prolong healthy lives and save A$ 3 billion in future healthcare costs in the process

Rao and her colleagues conclude that the best way to make healthier foods more affordable is for governments to subsidise healthy foods and tax unhealthy ones, as has been attempted in the US with sugar and sugary beverages.

The food, beverage and packaging industries will subsidise the recycling company, which will earn money from its sales of recycled material.

Massively subsidised by Government as a key part of the School Food Plan, Make school meals count is a support programme to help you attract more children to have school meals.

For 23 years they have maintained these shindigs with no effect on the climate but causing great harm to many ordinary people — soaring costs for unreliable subsidised green electricity, loss of manufacturing and mining jobs, and increased food costs caused by high power prices and using food for ethanol / biodiesel.

Officers in the Army, Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force (RAF) are typically paid around # 25,700 while training and there is also a broad range of benefits, from access to training and qualifications to subsidised accommodation and food.

Carley Tonoli writes: Doctors should be able to provide subsidised «prescriptions» for healthy food to people in remote Aboriginal communities, says an Indigenous nutrition expert.