The Price Of Apparently Cheap Food Is

The Price Of Apparently Cheap Food Is Costing Nothing Less Than The Earth!

The World's Forests Need To Be Seen For What They Are - Giant Global Utilities, Providing Essential Public Services To Humanity On A Vast Scale. They Store Carbon, Which Is Lost To The Atmosphere When They Burn, Increasing Global Warming. The Life They Support Cleans The Atmosphere Of Pollutants And Feeds It With Moisture. They Act As A Natural Thermostat, Helping To Regulate Our Climate And Sustain The Lives Of 1.4 Billion Of The Poorest People On This Earth.

To Avert Disaster, We Have Not Only To Teach Men To Make Things But To Teach Them To Have Complete Moral Control Over What They Make.

Personally, I Have Been Very Impressed By The Slow Food Movement. It Is About Celebrating The Culture Of Food, Of Sharing The Extraordinary Knowledge, Developed Over Millennia, Of The Traditions Involved With Quality Food Production, Of The Sheer Joy And Pleasure Of Consuming Food Together. Especially Within The Context Of Family Life, This Has To Be One Of The Highest Forms Of Cultural Activity.

It Is Vitally Important That We Can Continue To Say, With Absolute Conviction, That Organic Farming Delivers The Highest Quality, Best-tasting Food, Produced Without Artificial Chemicals Or Genetic Modification, And With Respect For Animal Welfare And The Environment, While Helping To Maintain The Landscape And Rural Communities.