5 Essential Things You Need To Ask About Organic Box-Schemes
5 Essential Things You Need To Ask About Organic Box-Schemes
By Viola Woolcott
The Dare2baware consumer would certainly like to be aware of the following facts:
Lighten your shopping load. Fruit and vegetables as nature intended, harvested when ripe, delivered full of flavour direct to your door. You should taste the difference.
1. Organic Box-Schemes deliver “unadulterated” salad leaves - ‘Convenient’ pre-packed supermarket salads are doused in chlorine then preserved in bags with lowered oxygen levels, depleting vital nutrients. (Did you know that salads are packed wet to make them look “fresh”. The water stays on the leaves for many days to be consumed by the consumer…)
2. Box-scheme food is typically grown within 50 miles of your home - Air freighted fruit and vegetables contribute 33 times more CO2 than UK-sourced produce.
3. Box-Schemes reduce waste - Over 40 per cent of household rubbish that goes to landfill is supermarket packaging. Unpackaged box-scheme food is naked naturally.
4. Box-schemes bring us in sync with nature’s seasons - Seasonality Supermarkets give us fake ‘permanent global summertime’.
5. Box-schemes don’t reject food on looks - Apples that don’t “fit” a supermarket’s exact colour specifications are ‘graded out’.
Isn’t it about community? Crop farming Box-schemes encourage an ethos of self-sufficiency in their suppliers. Villagers in Kenya are left starving in order to provide our supermarkets with vegetables.
Filed under: Did You Know on November 28th, 2007
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