Fry time to change Irish dieť..

Report says our consumption is damaging both health and planet

- SHAUNA CORR

IRISH diets are making us and our environment "sick" and need to radically change, a stark new report has found.

Fixing Food Together is a damning indictment of the health and environmental consequences of how our food is produced and consumed.

Its commissioner, The Climate and Health Alliance, says the system is fuelling premature death and disability because of diet-related chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type two diabetes and obesity, as well as destroying nature.

The alliance, which includes expert groups like the Royal College of Physicians, universities, hospitals and health NGOs, is now calling for a special Cabinet sub-committee to oversee a food revolution with farming playing a key part in the solution.