Can OS be ethical?

ajmoraal

puffinmuffin wrote:

The RSPCA Freedom Foods label is an indicator of good animal welfare.

Although.. there are RSPCA Freedom Foods chickens in the supermarket that are not even free range! I would prefer a free range chicken above a RSPCA non-free range one..

ajmoraal

missk_ensington wrote:

I'm not abouit to pay an extra £2 for a happy chicken! Its not just one item, if it was I could stretch to £2, but if you buy all your meat organic, as Ive said its like an extra £10 at least on your weekly shopping bill

A few years ago we halved the amount of meat we ate and at the same time switched to organic. That way we kept the shopping bill the same, by eating less meat per day, or skipping meat now and then...

competitionscafe

Another useful site:
http://www.newconsumer.org/index2.php?pageId=149

I can recommend their New Consumer magazine too - I subscribe and it's £15 for a 1 year sub. (6 issues)

Loadsabob

VickyM wrote:

Remember also when you're debating about organic v local that a lot of small scale UK food producers can't afford to register as organic with the Soil Association - they might be just about organic but can't afford the extra £400 (I think) to register. I've also never understood how anythign that's been flown from Kenya can be described as organic - eat locally and seasonally!

This is well worth remembering. The local producers at our farmers market who advertise "no pesticides" or "no sprays", are fine by me, without Soil Association approval at the costs involved (passed on the the consumers inevitably).

My friend said her veg box people surveyed users on whether to accept apples from a grower who had never used sprays, but whose land was still short of the time needed to qualify for official organic status. People voted overwhelmingly to have those apples, fairly local, rather than the certified ones from further afield. I'm glad common sense prevails!

Kelinik

This thread seems to cover just about everything that has been troubling me lately. I will be reading my way through all those links later.