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At a restaurant in southwest England, diners can choose their meal not just based on what they fancy, the cost or even its calorific content but now the dishes' carbon footprint.

This summer "The Canteen" became the first restaurant in the UK to put its carbon footprint on the menu.

It's a campaign initiated by UK Vegan campaigning charity, Viva.

Laura Hellwig is the campaigns manager for Viva.

The Canteen is predominantly vegan with tasty dishes such as carrot and beetroot pakora with yoghurt sauce responsible for just 16 grams of CO2 emissions.

So, in comparison to a UK produced burger, which comes in at a massive three kilograms of CO2, it's easy to see what the green choice is.

What do customers think of the carbon footprint labelling on the menu?

Enyioma Anomelechi.

The restaurant sources most of its ingredients locally, this combined with a vegetarian menu keeps the carbon footprint of their dishes low.

They teamed up with experts to calculate the impact of each dish from cradle to store.

This included farming and packaging of their ingredients.

Nathan Johnson checked out the menu on a night out.

But does the carbon footprint necessarily have any impact on what people choose to eat?

Customer Sally Wright:

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