Food is the rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure - Barbara Kingsolver
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants - Michael Pollan
In Todmorden, Yorkshire, vegetables and herbs grow almost everywhere, even in the cemetery and outside the police station. Everywhere you turn edible plants abound. In this talk given at TED London Salon, Pam Warhurst explained why and how she and others created Incredible Edible, a revolution not only in the way the town eats, but also in the way they think about public space, and which is inspiring other communites around the UK and increasingly, around the world.
An art student invented new vegetable packaging which is 100% biodegradable, with the label text created through laser cutting to avoid the use of ink. What's more, the labels are embedded with seeds, so that a supermarket purchase can also result in a homegrown harvest.
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The Anatomy of a Vegan infographic from AdvancedPhysicalMedicine.org takes an in depth look at some of the demographic data they gathered in a survey of Vegans.
Researched and produced by Advanced Physical Medicine - Chicago Chiropractic.
According to research, the British think they bin almost 10% of their weekly shop. With 8% wasting as much as a quarter of the food regularly bought, the research identified six types of people, each of whom wastes food in a different way.
Halcyon Highlights is a bi-weekly round-up of some of the most compelling trends that we have spotted over the past fortnight. + , - or = indicate whether we consider each trend/development to prove mainly positive, negative or neutral/too early to judge...
Has eating fish, in a world of overfished stocks, become one of the moral dilemmas of our age?
A new study into food security called for urgent action to avert global hunger, claiming that the current system is unsustainable and will fail to end hunger unless radically redesigned.