If you ever needed inspiration to grow your own, here it is...
1. Pesticide levels in our food have been steadily increasing, and according to a report by the Pesticide Action Network, as much as 40% of the food we eat contains them.
*To campaign, join the Pesticide Action Network at www.pan-uk.org
2. Food corporations spend millions lobbying governments every year to get what they want. For more information on just how much these corporate heavyweights spend on cajoling governments, check out The Center for Responsive Politics at www.opensecrets.org
3. Vitamin levels in our food have dropped dramatically in 50 years. Canadian researchers discovered that today’s consumers need to eat eight supermarket oranges to get anywhere the same amount of Vitamin A our grandparents got from just one fruit.
3. Vitamin levels in our food have dropped dramatically in 50 years. Canadian researchers discovered that today’s consumers need to eat eight supermarket oranges to get anywhere the same amount of Vitamin A our grandparents got from just one fruit.
*For more information on why, check out Scientific American at www.scientificamerican.com
4. Many in the world starving, while others are obese. In figures, it’s said there’s a total of 800 million people on the planet going hungry, while one billion are overweight. Both problems are symptomatic of a food system that is grossly out of control.
*Read Raj Patel’s ‘Stuffed & Starved’ for insight into the failures of the global food chain.
5. Today’s chickens have as much of weight problem as we do. Cramped conditions where many birds don’t see the light of day, let alone move, and eating unnatural diets, means they contain 33 percent less protein and twice as much fat as in he past, according to a study from the London Met University.
*Worried about battery farming? See Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Chicken Out! Campaign www.chikenout.tv
By Susan Tomlinson
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