Well, following my New Years Resolution, I went shopping today to only buy stuff from the right sources and it became apparent very quickly that I need educating.
I was not paying it much mind before,,I know it is bad,, and I couldn't make it when I tried the veggie option, but I id think I could shop.
I found a Freedom Chicken and some Free range eggs, after that I hadn't got a clue.Nothing was marked to help me, everything looked the same,so can someone please tell me what I should be looking for, before I try again in a couple of days.
I do know about Fairtrade coffee etc.
XX Jeannine
Jeannine, don't you have any local Farmers' Markets? That's where we tend to buy all our free range/organic meats.
valmarg
Jeanine, do you have a local butcher?For example ours gats wonderful free range pork from Suffolk and could tell us exactly where our Christmas turkey came from and they were so local that he had been to visit them!
There is no real answer, after all they have all been murdered to satisfy our appetite.
I shall keep on with my thinking that they know no different life than the one they have
and are better fed and housed than wild animals that are hunted and shot for food, which
nobody is making a fuss about.
Hi Jeannine,
You could try the following listings - there might be a place near to you:
http://www.yorkshirehealth.co.uk/organic.htm
http://www.organic-store.co.uk/east-yorkshire.html
As a rule the bigger stores (Tesco, Sainsbury) will have an organic meats section - it is usually quite small - the end of a fridge type job, but there. Organic stickers (in Ireland at least) are usually green with a yellow border. There might be an organic symbol/trademark in the UK for meat that you could look out for.
The best way to go longterm is to frequent your local farmers market, or get to know which butcher local to you sells organic meat and become a regular customer (the added advantage of this being you usually start to get discounts as well).
There's a monthly Farmer's Market at the Mart at Dunswell. At least a couple of organic meat producers are there (usually).
Steve
Waitrose are very good at supporting local suppliers, from shampoos to food.
Well I do know the farmers market at Dunswll, but I rarely get the chance to shop anywhere but the supermarkets due to my back etc can't stand or walk for long,.There s a butcher near me but not very good.
So can I take it that if I buy stuff that says organic on it, then I know the stock has been reared comfortably,not that that they just ate organic food.
I know this sounds pretty dumb, but I would like to know.
I used to buy meat from..oh I forget,,anyway mail order and very expensive, David somebody I think, perhaps that was all OK and I didn't realise. I think I will check that out again, unless anyone can out me in touch with a good mail order meat company that I can have delivered.
Maybe the veggie boxes I have heard about for when we have run out ..like now.
Would appreciate the help.
XX Jeannine
We have an Abel and Cole organic fruit box delivered weekly and they do lots of other products as well. Before we started the order I found that sometimes fruit wasn't used and wasted - well it went on the compost heap but that wasn't the reason I bought it!
Organic isn't cheap but it certainly makes me use all the fruit up every week. There is another box scheme - RiverNene- which might be nearer or worth investigating.