Calls for more plant-based food in schools and hospitals

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A new report has called for more plant-based meals to be served in schools and hospitals in a shake-up to procurement that would save the NHS £55m per year. The report, backed by 25 sustainability organisations and charities has also called for the government to scrap the current School Food Standards guidance, which mandates serving meat to children at least three days per week.

You can read the report, by Feedback Global, here: Serving Up

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