After a hard week at work or looking after children or relatives, the last thing you want to do is spend time pushing a big heavy shopping trolley around your local supermarket or walking around the busy town or shopping centre. Have you realized how much time you spend, and how much energy you use when shopping?
The Power Of Supermarkets And Changing Attitudes?
More and more concerns have been raised about the impact of the supermarket giants both on food production as well as on workers rights.
Buy Local Food To Reduce Food Miles
I have to admit, I am becoming obsessed with checking where my food comes from and this is driving my partner mad. Whether you are in the local market or a supermarket, it says South African apples, Israeli pears and peppers from Chile. You would think that the UK and USA does not produce any food, if this is the case then where has the billions of pounds gone that our two governments pay in farmers subsidies?
So You Want To Be A Farmer?
When you ask most young boys and girls what they want to do when they grow up, you will be hard pressed to find one that wants to be a farmer. That wouldn’t be true fifty or one hundred years ago, but it is true today. There are many reasons that most children do not grow up with intentions of being a farmer, but probably the single biggest factor in their choice comes from what they see their parents doing.
As the number of farms and hence farmers has decreased steadily i…