What is stated in a Speech/Interview needs recasting when reduced to writing

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Oral communication tends to be less formal.

Moving forward, health and environment-friendly products is our direction.

The above appears to be what is said by an interviewee in a report appearing in a popular English daily.

In official writing, that has to be recasted to avoid two grammatical mistakes namely misplaced modifier and subject-verb disagreement. Do you hold a different opinion?

A grammatical sentence would read: Moving forward, we'll focus our direction in health and environment-friendly products.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.-- Herman Melville