date:Jan 30, 2013
Mike Rayner of the Department of Public Health at Oxford University and Chair of Sustain also commented: Just as we use fiscal measures to discourage drinking and smoking and help prevent people from dying early, there is now lots of evidence that the same approach would work for food. This modest proposal goes some way towards making the price of food reflect its true costs to society. Our obesity epidemic causes debilitating illness, life threatening diseases and misery for millions of peop