Archive for the ‘Environmental’ Category

organic vs food miles vs packaged vs seasonal

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

fruit-sampler-thumb5242840A few years ago I did a natural nutrition course with The College of Natural Nutrtion. It was of course very pro organic food. But it also placed great emphasis on eating with the seasons.

Being the little earth loving creature I am, I now find myself confused when I’m in the fruit and veg department and it can take me ages to pick my purchases:

The organic apples I’m looking at are in a plastic non biodegradable bag.
So I must surely buy the in-organic  loose apples.

The organic lemons are in a net bag and they’re from South Africa
So I have to get loose  in-organic ones from Spain.

I want to eat with the seasons.
But what do I do when winter sets and it’s so ‘normal’ to boost my Vit C with oranges and lemons, which will no doubt come all the way from SA.

And now someone has told me about David Bellamy who reckons global warming is ‘a load of poppycock!’ so maybe food miles don’t make a difference after all.

I’m very confused.

How do you go about choosing your fruit and veg?

http://www.natnut.co.uk/

World Carfree Day 2009 – September 22

Monday, September 7th, 2009

Thought I’d just post this in case you’ve not seen it any where else. Leave your car at home on Sept 22. Try public transport, walk, run, cycle, hop, skip…just leave your wheels in the drive.

http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/

Live my life at ChickenOut.tv

Friday, August 21st, 2009

I’ve just been sent the email below.  A campaign well worth supporting.

Over 39 days – the pitifully short life of a typical factory -farmed chicken – we’re spreading the free-range message online and in 11 cities across the UK.

chicken_outUntil the 17th September, you can follow the short life of an intensively reared chicken via our  blog at chickenout.tv. See for yourself just what millions of factory farmed chickens endure, living just 39 days between hatching and slaughter in a typical overcrowded, barren and windowless shed.

Read the latest blog entry here>>
http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog.html

Watch a 30 second trailer here>>
http://www.chickenout.tv/why-chicken-out.html

How you can help?

Please encourage others to join our campaign for a free-range future:

“We need thousands of signatures to convince supermarkets, farmers, government regulators and anyone else involved in this unacceptable business that they must change”.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Chicken Out! on tour
http://www.chickenout.tv/39-day-blog/39-day-tour.html

We’re hitting the road over the next 39 days to take the free -range message out to  11 locations across the UK. Join us at a town near you and meet the team – and our own free-ranging chicken – as we spread the word.

P.S. Please consider  making a small donation http://www.chickenout.tv/donate-to-the-campaign.html to help cover the cost of taking our message across the UK.

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