Its my feeling that you need to be! both from a point of view of “saving the world” and from the point of view of satisfying your customers moral desires. The introduction of the lifecycle concept in this argument is very important because a partial analysis can miss larger hidden differences if all impacts are [...]
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 The work in the United Kindom on waste in the food system has lead to an intriguing, data rich report which is available on the WRAP website.
from: WRAP (click image for full story online)
Taking the information of how much food is wasted from this report, with the post on excessively nutritious [...] I copy this post from Ecowordly, because I think all food processing industries should be investigating the potential of anaerobic digestion to convert waste into biogas to supplement their energy supply. It makes sense in lots of ways! SAB Miller, South African grown, second largest brewer in the world has introduced anaerobic digestion to [...] Here is your opportunity to tell me what you would like me to be publishing here! Please email me here – dave@digivu.co.za or simply make a comment at the end of the post. Everyone who makes an input can supply me with information, which will be posted on www.digivu.co.za – what about using this [...] I intend to do a series of posts on fruit and vegetable drying given that this is one of the simplest, safest and cheapest processing technologies. However, as I am always promoting that we need to start at the market side. We also need to define the sector we are working in. But first a [...] Going back a bit to the environmental issues in food processing. Walker crisps in the UK was the first company to do detail work on one of its products.
from: Walkers Crisps (click image for full story online)
The illustration indicates that the carbon footprint is calculated up to the point where [...] Consumers in Europe are likely to increasingly see fruit and vegetables with less than perfect appearance (the so called “wonky” produce) on their supermarket shelves from July 2009 as the EU tries to reduce its bureaucracy
Vegetables
Attractive and wholesome fruit and vegetables like these feed the world but have, over [...] I have often heard the sensible sounding goal of “adding value to local resources” as a base for enterprise development. However, some of my own experiences with small enterprise and the recent story below from Uganda seem to contradict this.
from: New Vision (click image for full story online)
The first product [...] We had the low carbohydrate, the low protein and the low calorie diet and the pineapple and drinking man’s diet and many others. Now we have the low Carbon (Footprint) Diet which considers the well being of the world rather than the individual.
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Wikipedia [...] Freegans are anti-consumerist individuals employ alternative living strategies based on “limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Amongst other they salvage discarded but unspoiled food that has passed its best by date, as a political statement not because they are poor or homeless. This seems a very weird and almost [...] |
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