Organic Food
Posted on August 29th, 2008 by timalmond
Helen Browning in The Guardian
Ethical shoppers are not just middle-class faddists. The assumptions that those on lower incomes just don’t care about better food anymore, or the health of farm animals, or our environment, are hideously patronising.
It’s not that those on lower incomes don’t care, it’s that they can’t afford to do so. Extra lean mince from Helen Browning Organics costs more than double what it costs at Tesco (£6.19 vs £2.99). You start multiplying that up by the number of family meals in a year and you’re talking about the equivalent of a low-income family not having a holiday or not running a car.
Meat with no extra nutritional or environmental benefit is rarely going to win.
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“Ethical shoppers…”, let me stop you right there, as the world’s number 1 ethical shopper, Rule number 1 is buy where it’s cheapest and most convenient. Not sure what Rule number 2 is.
Hi Mark.
I only have one ethical stance at the moment, which is that I don’t buy Cuban coffee. It’s state-owned/run, and I don’t like the idea of Castro getting a penny off me.
It’s a shame because Cuban Turquino is a very fine coffee.