EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen did address the issue of food security in her State of the European Union address (SOTEU) this year. However, she did not mention the central role of our diet in the fight against the global climate and biodiversity crisis. The Sustainable Food System Law (SFS) is also absent from the Letter of Intent for 2024 published in parallel. An astonishing development for a legislative project that was intended to be the flagship of the European Green Deal.