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A group of investors is trying to pressure Tesco, the UK s largest supermarket, into selling healthier food and drink amid a growing obesity problem.
Investors led by pressure group ShareAction will ask shareholders to vote for their plan.
Tesco is due to hold its annual meeting in the summer.
The company insists that it already has a plan to make healthy and sustainable food available.
The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world and obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death from a coronavirus infection, according to Public Health England.
Economists have run through the alphabet this year. They’ve turned to letters and shapes in an effort to illustrate the unprecedented economic upheaval caused by the pandemic. The 2008-09 financial crisis had Ben Bernanke’s “green shoots” and angst about a “double dip” recession. In 2020, we’ve heard about not only a V-, U-, L-, and K-shaped recovery, but also a Nike Swoosh and Cape Cod in winter. The econospeak has even cracked into the mainstream, showing up in presidential debates and in major media. At the onset of the pandemic, many economists predicted a quick bounce back to normal activity following a sharp downturn triggered by the widespread closure of businesses and schools. Countries with relatively healthy economies going into the pandemic seemed best poised for the so-called V-shaped recovery. Some had their own spin on the V, such as Larry Summers, former US Treasury secretary, who compared it to “Cape Cod in winter,” whereupon a tourism-fuelled lo