Comparing salt, fat, sugar, and CO2

[erinamelia]

(This is cross-posted from It's Getting Hot In Here)

Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, has announced a plan to put 'carbon labels' on four categories of its own-brand products: orange juice, potatoes, laundry detergent, and light bulbs.  The labels, which were developed with the Carbon Trust's carbon labelling program, show the number of grams of

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[supersaps]

...there so much I can say on this, since I was part of a research team last year for Tesco.... A friend and I are currently working on an academic article about this issue. If you're really into this, let's chat when you get here!

[erinamelia]

I partly picked it up because it was a Tesco issue and not otherwise likely to get covered at IGHIH. But I'd really like to know more about your research and what you think about this - does this relate to your seemingly endless round of painful interviews outside the Tesco on Cowley Road? I really felt for you then.