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Green, Healthy and Fair

Despite some encouraging initiatives, too many supermarket products and practices are still unhealthy, unjust and unsustainable.

Our research shows that supermarkets are frustrated by the lack of a long-term government strategy on which to base plans, and that government can't meet its targets on climate change and health without harnessing the power of the supermarkets.

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