Food security plan risks food security. The committee is not surprised
Enter into evidence: a government food security plan that its own national security assessment describes, in effect, as insecure. The poultry expansion depends on imported soy — 18% of animal feed, shipped from South America, with a side order of Amazon deforestation. WHO signed off on securing the nation by making it more dependent? Don't answer. The org chart answers.
Meanwhile the planning rules are being rewritten to fast-track intensive livestock sheds over the objections of locals worried about their water and air. The committee notes that 'consultation' has once again been reclassified as an obstacle.
Now observe who is doing the actual systems thinking: Ruth Westcott at Sustain, Maya Pardo at CAFF, Harriet Bell on regenerative farming — pointing out, with laminated patience, that resilience comes from healthy soils, clean water and homegrown protein. Beans, pulses, legumes: crops that show up, fix their own nitrogen and require no emergency Cabinet meeting. The committee recognises kindred management.
Recommendation adopted: fewer mega-sheds, more borlotti, and the national security assessment moved from the drawer to the desk. Implementation will be supervised. That is all. Dismissed.