What's on the menu for polling day?

A pre-election briefing on food policy

Immigration, crime, the financial crisis – these are the battle lines drawn for this month’s election campaign.

But the parties’ policies on the future of the UK’s food production will affect voters just as much as border controls, bobbies on the beat and fat cat bank bonuses.

The Food Ethics Council has analysed the speeches and policy statements of the Labour Party, the Conservatives, and the Liberal Democrats to find out what shape our food system might take after the general election on May 6th.

Whoever wins the election will be given a mandate to serve up a diet that fundamentally affects the lives of 61 million Britons.

The three-page briefing, attached below, summarises how food policy could change under a Conservative or Labour government, or if there is a hung parliament.