Comments | spally: Food consumption

spally

Food consumption

Oct 01, 2011 12:19

I think it's the way I'm wired - the geographer and social activist in me (I assume also the Holy Spirit!) keep prodding the rest of my conscience to confront ethics issues regarding food production and food consumption. Also my geographer/envrionmentalist friends. There's really no escape anymore ( Read more... )

family, resources, food

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ringsandcoffee October 1 2011, 04:06:56 UTC

I kind of skimmed the voting with your fork articles. Good thing I don't like seafood anyway, which was interesting on my Massachusetts vacation. Anyway, I mentioned this to my roommate, and said that I personally have to start with trying to eat healthy. If I think about food production ethics, I might go crazy.

anonymous October 1 2011, 04:50:50 UTC

Unfortunately, even if you avoid Coles and Woolies, most independent groceries are supplied by the one wholesaler, Metcash (%16 share), who are pretty nasty too. Once you take out Aldi, whose parent company in Germany has all sorts of accusations against it. There isn't much option.
Hooray for your yiayia and all like her!
I think people who have never lived in an apartment don't know what a privilege it is to have a vege garden
Mike W

YAY! ext_815860 October 3 2011, 03:41:35 UTC

Ethical food consumption- More of it I say! But then again you knew I'd say that ( ... )

birdienl October 4 2011, 08:12:16 UTC

Very interesting post about a subject I'm also thinking about a lot recently. I'll definitely try to read the 'Voting with your fork' articles when I've got a little bit more time, they look very good.

I think a lot of the food problems we (the Western world) have (or have made) come down to how industrialized food has become. How many steps there are between food production and food consumption. Many people don't think about where their food comes from because they have absolutely no idea how it is produced. So education on that subject is, I think very important to make people more aware of the problems we're creating with our style of food consumption.

spally October 4 2011, 12:14:00 UTC

I agree with your comments about education - I think many people would eat differently if they were aware of where their food came from and how it arrives on their plate.