Roast chicken is an iconic dish in British culture. But how many of you know about the life fresh supermarket chickens lead before they reach your table? That their short, intensively farmed indoor existence is managed like a factory production line, to ensure the big retailers can sell them to you for as little as £2 a bird? Is that all the life an animal, born & raised to feed us, is worth?
Consumerism Links
Selected links to other sites, categorised by Action Area:
edible playgrounds is all about teaching kids to grow & cook... The idea came from a school in Dorset... At Dorset Cereals we heard about this amazing scheme that had been created by Screen Bites, Dorset's Food Film Festival, which focuses on local food and healthy eating, and we had to find out more...
National Farmers' Retail & Markets Association is a co-operative of farmers, producers selling on a local scale, and farmers' markets organisers. FARMA works throughout the UK and is the largest organisation of its type in the world, representing direct sales to customers through farm shops, Pick-Your-Own, farmers' markets, home delivery, on-farm catering, and farm entertainment.
Freerangereview is the local food community website. It lets companies that sell locally produced food tell the people around them about it. It also lets the people around them tell others and review what’s on offer. Freerangereview is a people populated site, where your legitimate reviews can be read by thousands of others, agreed with or possibly challenged.
Garden Organic, the UK's leading organic growing charity, has been at the forefront of the organic horticulture movement for 50 years and is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. Garden Organic has over 40,000 supporters and reaches more than 3,000,000 beneficiaries across the world through its expert advice and information.
Landshare is - A place linking people who want to grow their own fruit & veg to space where they can grow it - A network of help and expertise.
Representing allotments & allotment gardens nationwide, the National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners provides membership to allotment societies & allotment gardeners. NSALG aims to: Protect, Promote & Preserve allotments for future generations by monitoring allotment law & other relevant legislation; Provides advice and information in respect of sites under threat; encourage a healthy lifestyle by promoting 'Grow Your Own'.
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization
founded in 1989. We believe that everyone has a fundamental right to pleasure
& consequently the responsibility to protect the heritage of food, tradition
& culture that make this pleasure possible. Our movement is founded upon this
concept of eco-gastronomy - a recognition of the strong connections between
plate and planet.
It all starts off when a small collection of motivated individuals within a community come together with a shared concern: how can our community respond to the challenges, and opportunities, of Peak Oil and Climate Change? Find out about your local Transition Initiative - or start one if none exists.
Rory on 999 It's Time
Watch Rory's "Walking the Heart of Britain" Vlog here
Misty on Beggin The G-20
Watch Misty's "Beggin' The G-20" video here
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