Apr
08
Cutting down the food mites
At the heart of all the arguments for eating locally grown, seasonal produce is the need to cut down on what have become known as food miles. Food Miles is the distance – often thousands of miles – that food travels from where it’s produced to get to your plate. The [...]
Apr
08
`Where does my food come from?’ is really two questions. One is to do with how the food was produced and the other is about where on the earth it travelled from, how it travelled, how long it took to get to you, and how long it was in storage before it got into the [...]
Apr
08
If you ask many schoolchildren where bacon comes from they will tell you `the supermarket‘. The process of breeding, rearing, feeding, and eventually killing pigs and other animals for food is something many of them know nothing about. Why should they? They live in towns and cities where they may never come across anything to [...]
