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| Local food creates jobs and helps build resilient communities. Here are even more reasons why buying local food is the healthier, more sustainable option.
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| Drink up! A cup of tea is the savvy mum’s answer to chilling out your nerves while buffing up your health. Studies showing tea’s health benefits continue to pile up. ...more |
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| Each month the moon moves through all twelve constellations of the zodiac in turn. This is referred to as the moon’s sidereal cycle and forms the basis of the Biodynamic calendar. ...more |
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| Rainbow Food is a fresh approach to eating for the whole family. Rainbow Food is designed to restore our original innocent relationship with food. It is practical, easy to use, and is beneficial to the emotional body as well as the physical body. ...more |
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| Each day we participate in a vast global industry that wields huge consequences to the health of the planet, the animals and to ourselves.
That industry is agriculture. Peter Singer and Jim Mason reveal the politics on our plates in an extract from their ...more |
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| These principles do not encompass everything that is morally relevant to our food, but they can help us to decide all but the most contentious ethical issues. ...more |
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| The global price of both coffee and cocoa beans has fallen; however; profit margins for major coffee and chocolate companies have soared.
In recent years, the coffee industry has been transformed from a managed market where governments played an active r ...more |
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| Today’s mounting social and ecological crises demand responses that are broad, deep, and strategic. Given the widespread destruction wrought by globalisation, it seems clear that the most powerful solutions will involve a fundamental change in direction — ...more |
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| Page 2 of Going Local by Helena Norberg-Hodge
For virtually the whole of human history most human cultures have relied on food produced within a reasonable distance. The logic is unassailable: locally grown food is fresher, and so tastier and more nutrit ...more |
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| Okay, so what’s my secret to minimising menopause? It’s a salad ... real food ... that’s my secret. It won’t make millions of dollars for the medical professional or pharmaceutical industry, but it seems to work for me. ...more |
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| As the scary studies about plastic’s health effects pile up, should we kick the habit? We have become addicted to the freedom plastics have apparently afforded us, but at what cost? Are we poisoning ourselves whenever we eat or drink from a plastic contai ...more |
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| Farmers’ markets — the ‘quiet revolution’ that is resuscitating rural Australia and restoring our health and wellbeing.
They are bringing back sleepy little towns from the brink, resuscitating regional economies, giving birth to new businesses, increasin ...more |
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| Disillusioned with synthetic life and compelled to live more deeply, Lisa Reagan writes about her return to the earth, and as a result, to herself.
Windsong, a small white horse rented to carry a diamond engagement ring in a leather bag draped around his ...more |
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| Many column centimetres have been written about the highly irritating practice of supermarkets flogging tempting goodies at children’s eye-height at checkouts. Indeed, for a while supermarkets responded to parental criticism and sometimes offered designat ...more |
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| If you want to create a more sustainable society, a good place to start is by helping to rebuild your local food economy: food is something everyone, everywhere, needs every day, which means that even relatively small changes in the way it is produced and ...more |
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| Myth # 1: Biotechnology will benefit farmers
Reality: Biotechnology seeks to ‘industrialise agriculture' even further, converting agriculture into a branch of industry.
Biotechnology is capital intensive and increases concentration of agriculture prod ...more |
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| It was the mid 1960s when highschooler Deborah Koons stared at the gnarled radish plants in her bedroom window and frowned, ‘I'm not going to eat that,' she decided. Following in the footsteps of the notorious Dr. Frankenstein, the Texas teenager purposel ...more |
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| January 28, 2006 — Indigenous peoples were betrayed and farmers' rights trampled at a UN meeting this week when the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian governments — guided by the US Government and a brazen cabal of corporate gene giants — took a major s ...more |
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| When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis — feeding the population — and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society? Cuba’s innovative response is an inspiration for countries around th ...more |
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| The giant food corporations have one mission: selling more food and beverage products to consumers. Succeeding with that mission depends on keeping consumers in the dark on certain issues such as the presence of cancer-causing chemicals found in popular f ...more |
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| Here are just a few facts everyone should know before buying anything containing canola. Canola is not the name of a natural plant but a made-up word, from the words 'Canada' and 'oil' ...more |
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| Children have changed over the last thirty years. Behaviour and learning problems, asthma, depression, youth suicide, teenage violent crime and obesity are all increasing. At the Royal Children’s Hospital outpatients clinic in Melbourne in 2003, one-quart ...more |
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| On Tuesday the first on January 2008, The Echo newspaper reported that Mullumbimby supermarket, Mallams, had been purchased by Woolworths who plan to build a supermarket on Station Street Mullumbimby by mid 2009. ...more |
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| Why biodynamic, organic, ethical and sustainable food is good for more than our health. ...more |
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