Shops should axe environmentally damaging foods such as meat, dairy and air freighted products, says Food Ethics Council Supermarkets will have to abandon their focus on consumer choice and reduce or axe stocks of the most environmentally damaging foods such as meat, dairy and air-freighted fresh products, a new report warns today. The Food Ethics Council study says improvements in efficiency of the food supply chain have been overtaken by growth in consumption, and also fail to tackle the huge impact of customers driving to shops and growth in emissions overseas. Emissions from the food industry are still growing, despite calls from the United Nations, and this week from the UK's independent Climate Change Committee for rich nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% by 2050, it says. The report calls for a...
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