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Press coverage: Jeremy Grant reflects on our latest Understanding Scotland economy event

Investors could help turn back tide of processed foods

Exert from The Scotsman on 2nd September 2023:


”What people eat isn’t defined solely by personal preference. It’s driven by the “food environment”, made up of the availability of healthy foods, affordability and advertising by food companies. In the current environment, defined for so many by the cost-of-living crisis, what drives food choice is, increasingly, affordability — as the David Hume Institute showed in its latest quarterly “Understanding Scotland” survey, unveiled at the event.”

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