Posted by Editor at May 24th, 2008 in Food, Green Lifestyle
Lunch is one of those meals that is commonly missed, or people often find themselves grabbing whatever they can between work meetings or classes. This usually means that lunch is not the most nutritious meal of the day, and can often be wasteful as well. Trash cans are regularly stocked full of garbage, uneaten food, [...]
Recently, the FDA deemed milk and meat from cloned livestock to be safe for human consumption. This doesn’t mean that cloned food will be showing up on grocery store shelves right away – it could be months or even years before it does as the FDA has requested that the dairy and meat industries continue [...]
Improved animal welfare
Strict animal welfare conditions are included in organic standards, such as the requirement that animals have free access to fields or outdoor areas; that they have ample natural bedding, such as straw; and plenty of space in indoor areas such that they are able to express their natural behaviour patterns. So you will [...]
You can feel virtuous about more than just the environment if you eat organic food. It has many other benefits too:
More jobs created
By using traditional farming techniques, such as hand weeding, organic farms offer more employment opportunities to hard-pressed rural communities. In Germany, for example, organic farms employ 10-20 per cent more people than conventional [...]
These days, you can find organic products in almost every store almost everywhere; not only are all the big supermarkets devoting ever larger amounts of shelf space to organic food and drink, but even local convenience stores stock some organic products. But, if you cannot get what you want from the shops then you will [...]
