We gave 60,000 food products a ‘planetary health’ star rating – see how your favourites stack up
We gave 60,000 food products a ‘planetary health’ star rating – see how your favourites stack up
The free ecoSwitch app takes the guesswork out of sustainable food choices, empowering consumers to take matters into their own hands.
Such large variation within product categories shows how much difference consumers can make through their choices.
Or put another way, shows the difference producers can make. If XYZ corp can make a 5 star pumpkin soup, so can all the other corps, they just choose not to.
I like this. It reminds me of a similar app I used to use a long time ago called BuyCott. But their app needs a bit more work first. When I tried to scan a pack of frozen veggies the app ceashed, and when I try to submit products their app doesn't know about to them, it just keeps saying error submitting photos and clears all the photos and descriptions I gave them. Plus their android app uses their own camera implementation, which because of differences in camera architecture, always results in much worse photos. I'd prefer they opened my actual camera and let me take a photo through that, because then things would be readable
Plus their android app uses their own camera implementation, which because of differences in camera architecture, always results in much worse photos.
I think that's just a problem with Android in general. Very few applications are able to access the native camera. Historically support has been so limited that when Samsung released its most recent range of smartphones, it actually advertised native camera support for Instagram and Snapchat as a major selling point. The recent CameraX API is supposed to help with this but there is a huge range of Android phones and not all of them support it, which makes it challenging for developers to implement.