Campaigners win right to challenge England’s food strategy over climate crisis

‘The Climate Change Committee has been clear that reductions in meat and dairy are a non-negotiable part of all their pathways to net zero,’ say campaigners. Photograph: Peter Cade/Getty Images

Ministers broke the law by failing to make plans to cut consumption of meat and dairy in England, activists will argue in a legal challenge after they were granted permission for a full judicial review of the government’s food strategy.

Overturning two previous decisions, the court of appeal ruled that the food systems campaigners Feedback could challenge the national food strategy on the basis that it failed to take into account ministers’ duties to cut carbon emissions.