Healthier ready meals would have ‘huge’ climate benefits

Healthier ready-to-eat meals could cut EU emissions by 48m tonnes annually and save customers €2.8bn each year, as well as reducing disease, a report has found.

Fast food and ready meals provide more than a sixth of the EU’s calories but contain far more salt and meat than doctors recommend, according to analysis from the consultancy Systemiq and commissioned by environmental nonprofit organisations Fern and Madre Brava.