Would you be more inclined to pass on the chocolate cake if you knew how many minutes of jogging it would take to work it off? And are you clear on which labels indicate that food should be thrown ...

Information on sustainability should be compulsory on food labels. So said 88% of Europeans in a Eurobarometer survey of over 27,000 people in 27 countries published in December. That’s unlikely.

Australia has seen a boom in eco-labelling: more than 50 different organisations were eco-certifying products in 2010. Queensland National Senator Boswell calls it green-mail, forcing food producers ...