Confessions of an Eco-Food Dude: 2009

What's this eco-food malarkey

I'm a Melbourne epicurean on a quest for eco-friendly tucker.

I like eco-food which for me, means I eat plenty of vegetarian fare and try to choose sustenance with a small environmental footprint.

I’m not about proselytising or guilt-tripping others, it is just a choice I make for me. Very occasionally I might eat some sustainable seafood or push the boundaries of eco-food-dom and devour an exotic vegetarian delicacy with perhaps a few too many food miles.

But on the whole, I’m into tasty, good-grub that I can squeeze into my amorphous eco-food paradigm (and my ever expanding belly). Oh and I really enjoy a nice beer or good wine with my food and maybe before and after it too.

So why don’t I eat meat? Well, there a many reasons, but if I was to choose one it would be the consequences of meat production for the global environment.

A nice summary of these impacts is the UN-produced tome – Livestock’s Long Shadow. The report includes some fascinating real-world data on how meat production influences climate, biodiversity, water and the poorest societies across the globe.

Confessions of an Eco-Food Dude

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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