Eating Green

The SCPI, Center for Science in the Public Interest, http://www.cspinet.org/EatingGreen/index.html, has an interesting link to educate us to the consequences of our food choices. Eating Green has several interesting interactive resources to help determine the impact our diet has on the planet.

For 35 years the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest has published hard-hitting studies exposing the dreadful nutritional content of movie theatre popcorn, fast foods, and restaurant meals. Its latest book is SIX ARGUMENTS FOR A GREENER DIET —a meticulously researched examination of scientific studies that finds that eating more plant foods and fewer fatty animal products can lead to extra years of healthy living. Happily, explains lead author and CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson, that same diet also leads to much less food poisoning, water pollution, air pollution, global warming, and animal suffering.

The Interactive Tour of the Food Supply is both interesting and horrifying. There are so many parts of food production that we simply don't want to know. Because if we acknowledge these facts to ourselves, we'll have to take some soft of action. For me, that time is here. I'm ready to ruthlessly omit certain things from my diet.

The things I'm concerned with are not merely calories, or fat content. I'm concerned with where and how we get the resources. Are animals being treated compassionately? Are the people involved getting an adequate wage and working environment? Is the Supplying Company practicing Green Measures?

It certainly gives me plenty to think about!