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Fair trade versus organic? Sustainability versus fair trade? The old ethical shopping dilemma might just be on its way to being solved. It's World Fair Trade Day today and this year's theme is Fair Trade + Ecology. Continue reading...
Outspoken celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has emerged as an unlikely planet saviour. Talking to the BBC, he said that all fruit and veg served in restaurants should be locally sourced and in season in order to cut carbon emissions and improve cooking standards. For good measure, he added that any restaurants not serving seasonal food should be fined. Continue reading...
Today Tesco announced that it is soon to launch The Carbon Reduction Label on 20 of its own-brand products, including laundry detergent, orange juice, potatoes and lightbulbs. But the Soil Association says that it is excluding one factor in its labelling, as two of the products -- organic tomatoes and potatoes -- actually produce no more and sometimes even less greenhouse gases than their non-organic counterparts.
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We tend to be ready for our elevenses by around ten, but yesterday and today we've been fine and dandy. This we can only attribute to Pertwood Organic Farm's brand new muesli with dried banana and walnuts, which we've been testing. Continue reading...
Those trusty souls at Marks & Spencer are set to launch a new office recycling and collection scheme for all the leftover packaging we hungry workers munch our way through every day. Continue reading...
If we had a penny for every time some smarty-pants has told us that organic farming can't feed the world, we'd be rich. Now around 60 countries have officially declared, by signing a report published yesterday, that industrial farming is not the way forward and only sustainable, local farming will be able to combat climate change, hunger and poverty. Continue reading...
What's causing the global rise in food prices? Well, everything. Growing demand for food in emerging nations, wheat crop failures, currency fluctuation, speculation in the commodities market, hastily conceived government policies and the growing demand for biofuels have all -- among other factors -- converged to drive up the price of food, experts say. Continue reading...
We visited the Natural and Organic Europe tradeshow in Olympia's Grand Hall in London to find out what's happening in a quickly growing industry. The place was buzzing with vendors showing off their newest products, and we even managed to have a word with some of the event's winners. Continue reading...
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