Our choices as consumers have huge potential to contribute to climate change, from the food we buy and the clothes we wear to how we fit out and maintain our homes. As a general rule, locally sourced and ethically traded goods are most likely to have a lower environmental impact than mass produced alternatives and choosing pre-loved or second-hand items plays a vital part in creating a low carbon circular economy that we need to protect the planet.
In recent times we have started eating substances constructed from novel molecules and using processes never previously encountered in our evolutionary history – ‘modified starches, invert sugars, hydrolysed protein isolates and seed oils that have been refined, bleached, deodorised, hydrogenated and interesterified.’ What Tulleken points out is that the human body has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to select from and eat what is available in their environment and our bodies are marvellously adapted to this.
The Soil Association gut challenge: organic for a month Reporter Dianne Bourne and five members of the public took part in a trial to see what impact eating organic food and drink for a month would have on their gut health and well-being. For this Soil Association led… Read More »The Organic Gut Challenge
“The health of soil, plants, animals and man is one and indivisible.” Sir Albert Howard, botanist and co-founder of the Soil Association. In other words, healthy soil means healthy food. By choosing organic food you are choosing to support the cultivation of healthy soil systems that can benefit… Read More »Organic September 2025: Growing you Gut Garden
The world is groaning under the collective weight of discarded single-use plastic. Indeed, the average Brit will get through 242 plastic bottles and 109 single-use coffee cups in a single year. While the UK will collectively throw away 468 million spray bottles from cleaning products and 520 million… Read More »Plastic Free July 2025
We all know that pollinators are crucial to the ongoing health of our planet, and to the security of our delicious organic food! At this time of year it is quite common to see a bumblebee on the ground, looking like it might be in trouble. However, it… Read More »how to help a sleepy bumblebee
What is COP? COP stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’ and is a mechanism for decision making around the interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification. Each of these issues have dedicated meetings or ‘COPs’ to bring key parties together to measure progress and negotiate the… Read More »What’s going on at COP29?
