Good food should be available to everyone. There's no reason Scotland can't do it

'The challenge is to make good, healthy and nutritious food available and affordable for everyone'

YOU are what you eat, as the time-worn phrase goes. And it’s true. There are few things as important to us as the food we eat.

Yet, as the cost-of-living crisis bites, a lot of families are finding it harder to make ends meet and to afford good-quality food. Prior to the pandemic, almost one in 10 people across Scotland were food insecure, and, with the punishing effects of Brexit, austerity, and the instability of the last two years, that number will have increased.