Green choices
Well it has been a while since I touched my blog. What have I been busy with?
Lots.
I went to Singapore, came back straight into a 2 day conference and we finally bought a house. So now I am busy with the house! I can go on and on about the house but this blog is not about the house. It is about food. The one thing that links house renovation and food is the kitchen. In my previous post I talked about choosing a kitchen and how many choices one has to make. In fact how many green choices one has to make.
In a thick catalogue filled with kitchen appliances from fridge to integrated dishwasher, every plus symbol behind the energy rating A comes with a price. So when it comes to choosing your appliances how green do you go? A dishwasher that consumes only 6 litres of water is €200 more than one that consumes 10L per cycle. Same goes for the oven and the fridge. At the end of the day, we ended up at about €2000 above the budget because we wanted to contribute to the cause.
Isn't it the same with food? As consumers, choosing biological means that we are encouraging farmers to use ethical and earth friendly methods of agriculture. Prices of biological food is on average higher than regular mass produce. So why do you get charged for giving encouragement?
Sometimes I wonder where do all these extra money goes. Does it really go back to the farmers who do not use any pesticides. Or does it just go back to huge corporations who in turn use the money to produce more so that the general public consumes more than they need?
Anyway I am not judging. I just wish that I can sometimes be rewarded for doing the right thing.
In a thick catalogue filled with kitchen appliances from fridge to integrated dishwasher, every plus symbol behind the energy rating A comes with a price. So when it comes to choosing your appliances how green do you go? A dishwasher that consumes only 6 litres of water is €200 more than one that consumes 10L per cycle. Same goes for the oven and the fridge. At the end of the day, we ended up at about €2000 above the budget because we wanted to contribute to the cause.
Isn't it the same with food? As consumers, choosing biological means that we are encouraging farmers to use ethical and earth friendly methods of agriculture. Prices of biological food is on average higher than regular mass produce. So why do you get charged for giving encouragement?
Sometimes I wonder where do all these extra money goes. Does it really go back to the farmers who do not use any pesticides. Or does it just go back to huge corporations who in turn use the money to produce more so that the general public consumes more than they need?
Anyway I am not judging. I just wish that I can sometimes be rewarded for doing the right thing.
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1 comments :
If a burger is cheaper than a fresh organic salad it's not because the salad is too expense, but because the burger is abnormally cheap. The world is upside down. Processed and mass produced food is highly subsidized by our governments, most of the time produced at the other side of the world because workforce is cheaper, while local small farmers are struggling to survive with their small productions.
So don't worry, the extra money you pay most of the time goes to the right person, especially if you buy at a local market.
And you are rewarded, indirectly, by buying healthier and better food, hence taking care of your health and the health of the people you care about, much more than somebody that would buy the first cheap package of lasagnas without even taking 2 minutes to check the ingredients, and realizing what kind of crap they are putting into their stomach (and I'm not even talking about the horse meat...) that will make they sick in the long term...
In the end, you should see it as an investment for a better health ;) (and later you'll save on medication costs :D )
Bon appétit !
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