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ASK YOURSELF: “Where can I buy open-source food?”

This question was donated by Marco Steel, 28, of Berlin, Antigua and Barbuda. It reminded me of the recent documentary ‘We Feed the World’ by Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer, which offered some unappetizing answers to the question ‘what do we know about the food on our plates?’. Consumer Awareness is the key. Here are some links to organizations which work to raise critical awareness of what we buy and eat:
  • The way we buy food has an effect on both the local and global economy. The Fairtrade mark is an independent consumer label which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal.
  • The Slow Food Movement promotes food and wine culture, but also defends food and agricultural biodiversity worldwide. It opposes the standardisation of taste, defends the need for consumer information, protects cultural identities tied to food and gastronomic traditions, safeguards foods and cultivation and processing techniques inherited from tradition and defend domestic and wild animal and vegetable species.
  • By buying regionally and seasonally you support local farmers and eat fresher, healthier, less-travelled food. Which is also better for the environment. But how do you know where to buy what? The Soil Association has put together a consumer guide to buying locally and seasonally.
  • With health issuses like child obesity and type II diabetes becoming more severe, it is time to improve the way we teach children about food. Food, A Fact of Life offers interactive healthy-eating learning programs for kids. The Health Education Trust adresses the problems of school nutrition.
We are what we eat. Share your comments and tips on the subject by entering them in the field below. And please remember that…
“dropping knowledge is a way of asking and answering questions that recognizes other viewpoints. When you ask in order to understand, when you answer in order to share, you are dropping knowledge.”
…and we want your knowledge!

28 August 2006 | 12.14pm (CEST) | posted by Hili | |
TAGS Economic Development & Globalization | Education | Health & Nutrition | Media & Information | Environment

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