Interesting video, but not for vegetarians. Watch here

If my linking skills are everything I hope, you should be able to click here to find this BBC3 documentary, Kill it; Cook it, Eat it

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Comments

[Curls]

Sorry, too squeamish, stopped half way through. Get the point though.

[Hannah Phillips]

I took part in last years series. I think it is good for us all to see how our food is produced. It helps to know what we are eating and how it has lived. Then we can be a bit more considerate of the animals we consume.
I take the line that I will only eat local meat that is well looked after and slaughtered humanely. I eat less meat so as that I can hope fully take one more name off the list for intensively farmed meat. Therefore forcing the supermarkets to review how they rear the meat they sell.

[Katy Lowe]

Dear Anna,
I apologise for the need to vent my inner anxieties, I suppose that this blog is a forum to unite the like-minded. I am currently living in Alberta, Canada and find that North America is even worse than the UK for its consumption of plastic, most notably plastic bags. Prior to leaving for Canada, I was getting exasperated at people’s lack of foresight when shopping. How much effort does it take to ensure you have a cotton foldaway in your handbag, or a reusable box in your car?

I really feel that supermarkets have not done enough to dissuade the utilisation of plastic carrier bags. Some supermarkets have offered reusable carriers, notably Sainsburys and Marks and Spencer, whose products are practical and aesthetically sufficient. Yet, I would like to see the demise of the plastic bag through an active approach to reduce its useage rather than silent tokenistic gestures that have minimal impact on the reduction of plastic. Afterall, those that currently use such varieties appreciate the environmental impact of plastic; energy must be focused on those still requiring conversion to this mindset. This can only be achieved through coercion in the form of incentives; environmental concern is not enough. Ireland is a case in point; almost overnight their fee introduction for plastic carriers was met with such disdain that consumers promptly took their own bags in order to escape the charges at the till.

Our elders lead the way on this matter. Since time began, many loyal elderly shoppers make the short journey to their local shops, continue to fill their pull along trolleys time after time, prior to stepping on the bus to return to their homes. Meanwhile the too busy to shop contingent, pull up as near to the supermarket as possible, casually fill their trolleys with out of season strawberries and airmile intensive foodstuffs without a second thought for the energy involved from source to shelf. They load their goods into their over sized and ever so slightly over taxed 4 by 4, before barging their way through the traffic in a quest to return home as quickly as humanly possible. Too busy for all that environmental nonsense? Make it impossible for them not to be. Bring in plastic bag charges or stop their production. Force change. Don’t wait for the goodness in people’s hearts. We will be disappointed.

K Lowe
An avid refuser of plastic bags, even if it means dropping items all the way home.

Thanks Anna.