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All Britain's main supermarkets have pledged strong support to the new national front-of-pack labelling scheme which aims to offer consumers clear and consistent nutritional information on the food they buy. Leading food manufacturers are less enthusiastic and are boycotting the voluntary scheme.
"When even a giant corporation like Tesco feels the need to play ball with the tyranny of healthy living, we should be worried." So argues food libertarian, Rob Lyons, of Spiked-online, on the move by the UK's biggest retailer to adopt traffic light food labelling....
Do dietary guidelines serve any useful function? Are they little more than a vague mission statement, aspirational yet irrelevant? Do they influence only the eating habits of the most-informed, most health-conscious consumers? It is an unavoidable and uncomfortable fact that in the...