When it comes to environmentalism, food can look deceptively simple.
I mean, it's easy, right? You just eat organic.
And then you start to consider that the organic beef came from Argentina. And the cattle was fed corn rather than grass. And the packaging is plastic.
So how about an unpackaged steak from the local butcher? But what was that fed? How many antibiotics were in it's system? Was it slaughtered humanely or on a production line?
And what about the vegetables. Are spring onions in season during spring? Where exactly is butternut squash grown? Why can't you just buy one organic carrot instead of a whole bag (yeah, I'm looking at you there Sainsburys!)?
The Fife Diet have produced a new report that suggest you can lower your "foodprint" (you see what they did there?) by up to 50% of the national average just by eating local, reducing food waste and eating less meat.
In the grand scheme of things, we're such a small country that it should be relatively easy to become a "locavore". If they can do it in Fife, you can do it anywhere.
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