http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4443111.stm%20gives gives some encouragement. It is absolutely dispicable what our relationship with food is today. While we not only eat too much (weight has become the single most destructive disease in the western countries), we also throw a big portion of our food away. I will never encourage stuffing yourself with too much food when you are full, but I will never understand why too much food cannot be saved for the next day, or why food in the fridge that is going off cannot be used first.
Simultaneously food and fuel prices have gone up by 40 percent in the previous year
World population has grown, biofuels and cash crops have taken the place of food products in the fields of the developing world and climate change increases desertification. Egypt, El Salvador and Haiti haves seen riots, as the poor have grown poorer and hungrier.
One thing is for sure: I will not throw food out because of fasting. Today my diet will be grapes and apples and I will see if there is anything in the fridge that wont wait a week for my recovery to normality. My target is to fast for seven days and I will start tonight by taking the glauber salt. Disgusting stuff that will get all your juices flowing very fast. Idea is to get everything out cause there will be nothing coming in for awhile. I will allow myself green and herbal tea and organic juice on occation.
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I think that's brilliant.
I am in!
I am not sure if I can do a fast right now, and not that much food gets wasted in this student home, but I will make my life less destructive through; consuming less (I am so bad at that, it's disgraceful), and consuming more sustainable products.
That flight agenda is already there, but I think we need to lobby someone to start somekind of a boat company that would do fast trips to Finland and back :) At the moment all forms of travel apart from flying are just too expensive and time- consuming.
Good stuff, we all need reminding of our habits. I need a life change.
Fasting, I doubt, is necessary. Although glauber salt has been taken now, so for me there is no turning back. So many people suffer from malnutrition all the time, so its crazy to whine about a few days. On the other hand the people suffering from malnutrition don't have caffeine and sugar addictions:)
I know the problem with the airplanes. I honestly don't know what to do. This year I've been to Finland probably 5 times and one trip with a train to Paris cannot really compensate. Eeevil, eeevil world.
And I know buying organic and sustainable is expensive, but if we just were to leave some of the food we eat excessively or throw away in the shelves, we could easily afford organic. Its always about choiices. For some reason people can always afford a pint and rarely fair trade.
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