The Guardian · 28 July 2017

In July 2017 The Guardian published a selection of readers’ letters on fast food, poverty and hunger in Britain. As chair of the British Takeaway Campaign, I wrote one of them.

I argued that more takeaways need not mean less healthy lifestyles. Research for our campaign showed that most takeaways now offer vegetarian dishes, and many offer low-fat, low-salt and smaller-portion options.

I also pointed out what the paper’s coverage had missed: takeaways support more than 230,000 jobs, contribute billions to the economy and play an active part in their communities, from sponsoring local teams to donating food.

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