PNG to impose high tax on unhealthy foods

Maxtone-Graham said people consume unhealthy food simply because they cannot afford healthy foods.

He said he will promote healthy food.

Maxtone-Graham highlighted that food such as white flour, sugar and lamb flaps etc are unhealthy and says tax collected from these foods will subsidize the prices of healthy foods such as brown rice, beef, fish and others.

He said lifestyle diseases  are associated with unhealthy food being consumed and he will make sure ordinary people afford basic healthy foods. On the same note he encouraged people to grow and eat more locally grown food and avoid processed and fast foods.

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