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Ethical practices in food production
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How much do you consider ethical practices in food production?
Do you think "how far has this meat/fish/veg travelled" - ie the carbon footprint. Or do you try and source local ingredients?
Are you concerned about fish from sustainable sources? Do you care how the animal has lived before it died to provide you with a meal? Is cost an issue for you?
How much should we care about where our food comes from and how it lived before it died?
Do you avoid GM foods and instead go for organic veg? Again, is locality an issue for you?
If you think we are not doing enough, how can we change things?
Just an interesting debate for a Friday afternoon.
Do you think "how far has this meat/fish/veg travelled" - ie the carbon footprint. Or do you try and source local ingredients?
Are you concerned about fish from sustainable sources? Do you care how the animal has lived before it died to provide you with a meal? Is cost an issue for you?
How much should we care about where our food comes from and how it lived before it died?
Do you avoid GM foods and instead go for organic veg? Again, is locality an issue for you?
If you think we are not doing enough, how can we change things?
Just an interesting debate for a Friday afternoon.
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Like I have said on here before, I would not give a single penny for organic food, absolute waste of time and money. When I worked in a very large grain store, we sold cereal to all the major breakfast manufacturers, including all the organic dealers. I know for a fact that every grain of cereal that passed through that store was treated with Actellic dust or liquid as I was the one applying it, yes all the organic seed as well.
When as a pest controller I was called out to a rat infestation at a nearby turkey breeder, all turkeys were "barn reared" a big advertising gimmick!! I arrived and I was rather shocked, in my naivety I think I was expecting to see a quaint little barn with straw on the floor and bails of straw with a few turkeys sat on bails of straw. What I was faced with was a huge commercially built warehouse with a concrete floor and walls, not a blade of straw in sight, it had an automated feeding conveyer traveling along the floor. I would estimate this "Barn" contained 15000 turkeys and I struggled to pass through this barn for 3 reasons, it was so unbelievably hot inside, the air was acrid with the stench of ammonia from their urine and I could not find enough space to place a foot between these poor turkeys, I had to shuffle rather than walk, as if I lifted a foot off the floor I could find anywhere to put it back down. Other than the turkeys, the conveyer was the only item in this huge "barn". I would say they had less room to move than a battery hen.
When as a pest controller I was called out to a rat infestation at a nearby turkey breeder, all turkeys were "barn reared" a big advertising gimmick!! I arrived and I was rather shocked, in my naivety I think I was expecting to see a quaint little barn with straw on the floor and bails of straw with a few turkeys sat on bails of straw. What I was faced with was a huge commercially built warehouse with a concrete floor and walls, not a blade of straw in sight, it had an automated feeding conveyer traveling along the floor. I would estimate this "Barn" contained 15000 turkeys and I struggled to pass through this barn for 3 reasons, it was so unbelievably hot inside, the air was acrid with the stench of ammonia from their urine and I could not find enough space to place a foot between these poor turkeys, I had to shuffle rather than walk, as if I lifted a foot off the floor I could find anywhere to put it back down. Other than the turkeys, the conveyer was the only item in this huge "barn". I would say they had less room to move than a battery hen.
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