Comments on: World Hunger, Eating the Floor and Happy Stomachs

By: Green Living

Green Living — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:56:20 +0000

I found your website through a yahoo search on “earth-friendly” I really enjoy it! We have started a “green” directory and would really enjoy it if you added your site for everyone to find it http://www.everygreenthing.net. Its free, and its only for sites dedicated to the sustaining of our green Earth! Thanks for being you.

By: goo

goo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:01:13 +0000

Exactly! I do eat meat, but funnily enough my favourite comfort foods are vegan – I love pulses of any kind with spices and rice and just simple tomato sauce and pasta never fails to make me feel better on a bad day!

By: Bird

Bird — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:23:32 +0000

I reckon you are on to the best way of spreading vegetarianism – not by rationing and telling people they are bad for eating meat, but by publicising how good veggie food is! I’m not talking Linda pie out of the fridge either, I’m talking all the easy to do yummy recipes that are easy on the stomach and pocket. Confirmed carnies think that veggies are restricting their diets but sometimes when I see how reliant people can be on meat I think it’s the other way round.

By: goo

goo — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:57:58 +0000

Yes Kester, you are quite right. Cutting down our overall consumption (of just about everything!) will quite literally do a world of good to us all. As for peak oil, this is indeed a worry. All of our farmers rely heavily on diesel and it would take a long time to cut a field of grass without a tractor! The sooner we all start questioning our consumption patterns, patterns of distribution and looking for sensible alternatives the better.

By: Kester

Kester — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:26:59 +0000

Hi Goo
As always, incisive and spot on!
Our overconsumption of empty calories is fuelling obesity in the “developed” world; deforestation, poverty and hunger in the “developing” world. Local, seasonal food (maybe even a 100 mile diet) is desperately needed. Our complete disconnection from our food and our fixation with “nutrition” rather than real food hides the impact from us. If we knew where our food came from or even had to hunt/forage our meat then surely we would eat less of it and generally more seasonally. One of the issues that worries me most is how we will feed ourselves in twenty years’ time after peak oil has really started to bite.