{"id":78940,"date":"2026-06-29T05:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/how-much-should-we-be-prepared-to-pay-for-our-food\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:19:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T05:19:58","slug":"how-much-should-we-be-prepared-to-pay-for-our-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/how-much-should-we-be-prepared-to-pay-for-our-food\/","title":{"rendered":"How much should we be prepared to pay for our food?"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Jane added: “We’re not educating people well enough to realise that they could feed their children differently. <\/p>\n

“It’s much cheaper to be feeding them a chicken McNugget than it is to be home cooking food and I think that’s a real issue.<\/p>\n

“I think we have to realise that it’s important for our society and long-term health benefits to know that spending a little bit more money on your food is a good thing.”<\/p>\n

In 2022, the Scottish government passed legislation called the Good Food Nation Scotland Act, external<\/span><\/a> which aims to ensure that people “eat well” and benefit from “reliable and dignified access” to nutritious, affordable, enjoyable, and age-appropriate food.<\/p>\n

The SNP manifesto commitment to capping some food prices was dismissed as a “potty gimmick” by some retailers.<\/p>\n

But First Minister John Swinney insisted it was a “moral outrage” that some people could not afford to feed themselves properly.<\/p>\n

He told BBC Scotland News: “I admire and respect the quality within Scottish agriculture but I’ve also got to be mindful for the genuine hardship that families are facing in delivering an affordable shop.”<\/p>\n

Swinney said that was the reason his government was bringing forward legislation to introduce price caps.<\/p>\n

Farmers are facing increasing demands to deliver for nature and the environment, as well as consumers.<\/p>\n

There is genuine concern from food producers that we’re in a “race to the bottom” which, they fear, could result in an influx of cheap imports pricing them out of the market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Jane added: “We’re not educating people well enough to realise that they could feed their children differently. “It’s much cheaper to be feeding them a chicken McNugget than it is to be home cooking food and I think that’s a real issue. “I think we have to realise that it’s important for our society and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[516,932,5688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78942,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78940\/revisions\/78942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}