Green Food
Eating green, twenty years ago would have a hollow ring. "How does one eat the color green?" we would have asked. But the advent of the organic food industry at the turn of the century, and his subsequent rise to the shelves of nearly all commercial supermarket on the planet is no joke.
Never before have the customers of the supermarkets and food buyers in general, so much time to examine how their food their way to their record. And never before have so many grocers time, effort and money convincing customers of the purity of their food.
Supermarkets advertise their food grown by local farmers loving and friendly, and they are raised without harmful pesticides or genetic fiddling. Daily, we are convinced that the choice cut of beef we are busily carved from a cow that had a very happy life in a green and open grassland. That you bake the chicken for breakfast was certainly not a battery hen tricked into staying awake for days in a brightly lit factories, so that more eggs are laid.
At the beginning of the organic trend, some supermarkets stupid choice produce imported from neighboring countries. But because the alert and inquisitive consumers who we are, we quickly picked up on the fact that this has led to food with a high carbon footprint. If you have not heard of this concept, it's time you took notice. Let's look at two farms, both to sell produce to Cape Town. One farm in Hermanus and the other in Upington. The products of Hermanus has a smaller footprint than that of Upington, because they are denser and less carbon emitted during childbirth. Moreover, the extra length means that the products of Upington will burn a bigger hole in your wallet.
Cynicism aside, the truth is that some of what organic food is more expensive than conventional products, but in other areas it is not. It all depends on where you shop and what to buy. If you want to buy long-stemmed broccoli Woolworths' flown all the way from Botswana (high carbon footprint alert!) Then you go to pay more. On the other hand, there will always be cheap inorganic food available, because some people do not care or can not afford to care about their neighbors well, let alone chicken welfare.
Yet it is important to support your local farmers. We are slowly approaching a post-era of globalization (travel is increasingly expensive and communities are becoming self-sustaining), which means that it is better to fork out that extra R2 for a bag of spinach in your community. Most supermarkets or grocery stores may have questions about where food comes from the answer. In Cape Town you can even join the Ethical Co-op, where each week a group of organic farmers a stop at a predetermined meeting place (you can subscribe to their mailing list) and sell their products, a worthy effort in a city so far path of most agricultural land.
Most people can afford to eat green. Not only is it ethically and environmentally a better choice, but it is much healthier. Your food will contain fewer preservatives and additives than normal, what if someone allergic to sulfur, along with a host of other irritants, it is a blessing.
News From: ezinearticles.com By Phil Smulian
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