Food Miles
We love our planet. What a marvelously clever thing it is too. Always spinning. Always happy to give us a lovely home. We think we owe it some respect (it works very hard after all and with no nice holidays away).
We focus on using local and English produce to cut down on the environmental damage caused by transporting food long distances. We also think growing tomatoes in a heated greenhouse is just plain silly. We get rather excited about the arrival of the Summer crops and eat so much tomato and basil soup whilst itʼs in season, weʻre happy to wait for another 12 months!
Climate Change
Climate change is affecting people in developing countries a lot more than we realise. The crop yields families have relied on for many years have become rather, well, unreliable. Rising water levels in low lying zones has flooded growing fields and meant ruined produce.
There is no certainty in life. They canʼt just pop to the grocery when supplies get low. Weʼre donʼt realise how lucky we are. Want to know the biggest way you can help people in these countries? Stop climate change. Want to know the biggest way to do this?
Food
Food is everyday, all the time. We show our consumer power through the things we buy and consume.
We buy and consume food more than anything else.
Eating food that is locally grown and low in animal products will hugely lower your carbon footprint.
Impact of animals on the planet
The UN has reported that 18% of global warming emissions are caused by meat and dairy agriculture. As the worlds resources become ever stretched by our way of living, there is increasing attention on the use of water, land and energy. Equally, as health problems worsen globally, with a growing diabetes epidemic and heart disease and stroke on the increase ... there is also more and more attention being focused on what we are doing to our bodies and the planet.
Hereʼs some documents we found interesting:
1. Global benefits of eating less meat
2. Food distribution report
3. One planet dining
4. Livestockʼs long shadow
