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Good Food with Provenance and reduced food miles |
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Written by Queen Bee
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Monday, 31 March 2008 |
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 Real Food with Provenance is so important these days. I'm in my middle
forties and it worries me immensley that people of my own age group seem happy
to eat pre-prepared meals with hi salt content and God knows what sort of
additives it may contain. Worse still I am shocked that people who are parents
that share my age group think it is acceptable to buy this rubbish and give it
to their children.
I know not every one has the time to make a meal from scratch
(Why not our grandparents used to and they faced the same challenges that a modern woman does today. Is it because they made time and had a much more family focused outlook on life? )and that real food is supposed to cost more, but what price are you putting on
your childs future health. and ultimately the health service.
What are the health implications later on in their life?
I watched recently a documentary by Hugh Fearnly Whittingstall of River
Cottage fame who did that experiment about free range chickens verses factory
chickens. I so sympathised with the young mum who had been buying chicken for
£2.50 from Tesco's because thats all she could afford. But I was shocked that
she failed to see just what the impact not only on the local economy but on her
childs health was going to be. Its true Free Range or Organic chickens are three
times as much as a supermarket chicken. But pound for pound they are worth every
penny. I can make a medium sized chicken feed a family of four twice! Roast
chicken on a sunday, then chicken soup for lunch during the week and I boil the
bones and skin to make stock for a soup or stew and freeze it.
Who would want to do that to a creature that is pumped so full of chemicals
to make it grow to the desired weight in 39 weeks only to pass those chemicals
down the food chain to our kids.
No wonder the government keep going on about how obese our children are!
No-ones put two and two together yet and realised we are breeding factory farmed
kids. Inactive, pumped with chemicals and so obese we are raising a nation of
overweight kids with future serious health issues!
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 01 April 2008 )
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