Shopping Makes You Fat (and it’s bad for the planet too)

Monday, February 18, 2008
by Andrew Threadgould

The SDC blames the food chain for 20% of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK and for contributing to unhealthy lifestyles.

Professor Tim Lang, the report’s main author, told BBC News: “When we go shopping, I don’t think we really recognise the enormous impact our food is having on the environment. It… has an impact on our health, the energy use, how we get there - everything that matters is actually happening beyond our control, but government’s got to get grip of that.”

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