there has been some discussion of late, about organic fruit and veg boxes… seems like something’s in the air; everybody wants one.
last week, instead of buying a fancy cookbook by a cute chef, i got “the ethics of what we eat” (peter singer and jim mason). by page 30 i had an unsettled feeling in my stomach that i feared might only be quelled by vowing to eat just freetrade, organic, amazonian chocolate for the rest of my life. but of course, it will all come down to drawing lines. i’m only midway through the book now, and i don’t know where those lines will be drawn. however, i have decided to buy organic/free-range meat for now.
i was buying free range eggs already, but the weekend paper brought news that “the big buggers in the cage industry have been passing off barn eggs as free-range for years“. this was swiftly refuted by the egg corporation, so who knows what i’ll find in my carton next week.
lunchtime today though, after an hour in the playground, the kid and i shared a big vege breakfast up the street. the scrambled eggs tasted of salty butter, as did the four bits of turkish bread toast and the sauteed mushrooms and baby spinach. there was also a grilled roma tomato and a veggie patty, made up of corn, chopped-up green beans and grated pumpkin, held together with more egg. the breakfast included a small pot of tea and a large glass of orange juice, pretty awright for $15. it fed the two of us, and there was egg to spare.
hopefully a chicken didn’t sit, beakless and bald, in a cage, in vain.
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the boy and i were impressed that there is an egg corporation. i wonder if they get staff breakfasts…?
the industry should be regulated seeing as people are forking out nearly double for the free range/organic types. the free range eggs from the co-op are $3.50 btw.
i might get myself a copy of that book too … i am in two minds about it all because part of me thinks in some time there will be an even bigger backlash than the free range egg malarkey. i hate being duped.
Funny, I read that article and that afternoon bought organic eggs instead of free range.
I’m too scared to read the book because I know I’ll become vegan after reading it.
I am struggling with the fact that organic pork is almost nonexistant and organic meat is so expensive and one has a mortgage you see. But then poor for the little animals and what kind of horrible person am I to allow such evil to continue by supporting the purchase of shrinkwrapped mass produced mince. Sigh.
sue: the eggs i buy say organic and free range… they are from ovaston organics… so i’m just asconfused about the whole egg debate. its a major issue how our food is labeled i guess.
one of my friends has chosen to eat only organic vegetables and no meat at all. but what happens when she goes to her favourite thai ? … she turns a blind eye is what she does.
Apparently in order to be organic, they have to be free range as well.
Is it wrong to turn a blind eye? I admit to doing the same all the time.
nope i don’t think its bad to turn a blind eye. the book which bowb mentions above says its not about being fanatical about what we eat; just making good choices when we can.