"Eaters must understand that eating takes place inescapably in the world, that it is inescapably an agricultural act, and that how we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." Wendell Berry
pass on home cooking skills to younger people, for example young parents
Visit an organic farm
Wholefood supplies
Food co-operatives
Bulk buy schemes
Healthy eating initiatives
Food Forest, see for example: It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s First Food Forest. Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. takepart.com, February 21, 2012
school-community kitchens, eg Rethinking School Lunch: school-community kitchens on ecoliteracy.org
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The number of chronically hungry people is expected to top 1 billion in 2009, up from 850 million in 2007. Source: Worldwatch Institute, October 1, 2009
Why it’s green to be vegetarian
Farmed animals produce more greenhouse gas emissions (18%) than the world’s entire transport system (13.5%). [1]
Vegan - dedicated to the collation of a structured argument in favour of veganism as a lifestyle. The central advantages for veganism include human health, environmental / sustainability considerations, animal suffering, economic, sociological and for some people there are religious reasons to be vegan.