2021-04-16
"There’s rising demand for another type of food label as people become increasingly concerned about climate change, and conscious of how they’re contributing to it"
Demand from whom I wonder? The man on the Clapham omnibus?
Oh - Extinction Rebellion perhaps?
Now I may myself occasionally look at the label on an unfamiliar food product before I buy it, but I'm not looking at the calorie count since I long ago decided that the link between calories and weight gain is a relatively minor part of the whole, a part that only becomes significant when the whole is seriously out of balance.
And I must confess that whilst as a matter of good management I would prefer my food to be locally sourced and subject to fewer food-miles where practicable (it's difficult to grow coconuts in the UK), I'm not convinced that the CO2 produced in its transportation is going to destroy the world - it's more likely to feed the world via the increased growth rates of crops and vegetation in general, and could well help to make currently arid regions productive, given appropriate initial irrigation.
If we had a shortage of water and an abundance of CO2 then it might be preferable to burn hydrogen in place of carbon, but we don't.
Nonetheless the UK brand Quorn has reportedly done its homework and is preparing to launch new carbon labelling for its own products. How long before this trailblazing enterprise will be rewarded by seeing the UK food labelling laws updated to force the rest of our food manufacturers to step up to meet yet another absurd level of bureaucracy?
But isn't it the highest purpose of government to impose unnecessary cost, leading to yet more fees for legal teams and government-sanctioned "independent" inspectors everywhere? Provided of course that it involves a traffic light label . . .
Read the Story at CDN.
