We meet people on fad diets. Can't eat tomatoes, don't fry in olive oil, avoiding wheat that's bad too. Well we're on an Italian diet because most of the 58 million population have got it right.

Tofu is wonderful but in the hands of someone who can't cook it's a disaster dish. Get a recipe, surround it with strong flavours and most of all respect 3,000 years of history.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Only 5 campaigns

The Garden Organic organisation sent me a leaflet, and a letter. The letter asked for donations. If anything comes in an envelope they usually want money. Back to the leaflet. Five Threats to our partnership with the land. Let's you in gently to big global issues.
1) Garden Grab - gardens being redeveloped as appartments. A lot of that goes on around here.
2) Terminator seeds threat to biodiversity. Had to look up this up but it's GM seeds that will produce crops and sterile seeds. Link
3) GM Seed contamination. Big issue, history shows you can't isolate plants. They get out, pollinate and spread.
4) Global Warming. It's possibly too late already. You can do a bit of marching and rallying like the I-Count are organising.
5) Organic has become just another marketing term robbing it of meaning.

Thoroughly depressed at the end of this. Not by the issues but by the action suggested. This amounted to "Lobby the Government", "Spread the Word", "Raise Awareness"...

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