Ethical eating
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English wines are just getting better and better. At the 2010 Decanter World Wine Awards this year, an English sparkling wine beat all of its French peers to the trophy. |
Scandinavia might bring to mind any number of Nordic greats: Ikea, Abba, Hans Christian Anderson, Ulrika Johnson... the list is long. |
“So what’s good to eat here?” I asked the manager as we stood by the counter in Otarian. |
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Back in 2006 the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and UK’s leading supermarkets pledged to cut the amount of single-use plastic bags used in their supermarkets by 50%. |
It makes sense that the foods which are most difficult to produce will be the most expensive, and therefore, the most luxurious. |
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(Photo: courtesy of Heaves Farm). |
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Michelle Obama’s doing it, VV Brown’s doing it, Hugh Fernley Wittingstall’s been doing it for years, and now the National Trust wa |
The London Fairtrade Festival is going to be in full swing from the 7th - 9th May at Potter’s Field Park. |
An eye-opening Oscar-nominated US documentary Food, Inc. |
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Cocomaya: Fine Chocolatier is a luxury boutique chocolate shop founded by three of London’s key players in fashion and |
Jamie Oliver has won the prestigious TED prize for 2010. |
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As Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 is upon us (Feb 22nd - March 7th 2010), one of the easiest Fairtrade products to identify on the high street is coffee. |
A delicious lunch of wasted food will be served up to 5000 people on Wednesday 16th December 2009, to highlight the high levels of food waste in the UK. |
Compassion in World Farming is campaigning The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG), to change the current proposal for the use of intensively farmed chickens and pigs in the ‘F |
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On the 13th July 2009, half a million honey bees checked in to the Lancaster London, making it the first central London hotel to install beehives on its roof. |
Organic Meltdown have teamed up with the World Land Trust to create the first chocolate bar to help combat global warming and preserve valuable wildlife habitats. |
Food-loving Londoners will be glad to hear that the open-air Covent Garden Real Food Market will remain a permanent fixture on the Piazza until Christmas. Hooray! |
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Amidst the rolling Dorset hills, lies the idyllic Foxholes Farm where Ian and Denise Bell devotedly practice the conscientious methods of biodynamic farming, rearing their sheep, cattle, pi |
Cadbury and the Fairtrade Foundation have announced plans to achieve Fairtrade certification for Cadbury Dairy Milk, the nation’s top selling chocolate bar, by the end of Summer 2009. |
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To celebrate the art of coffee growing, Cafédirect, one of the biggest names in Fairtrade, is staging the first ever TasteFair. |
The great chicken debate hits television screens again on Monday 26th January 2009, as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall continues his free-range chicken campaign. |
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A Fairtrade smoothie range has hit the shelves that contains no concentrates, preservatives or added sugar. |
If you love your coffee fix and want to get ethical about your consumption of it, Rwandan Farmers coffee bears a clutch of credentials worth looking at. |
For days when the sun is beating down, there’s nothing better than some al fresco dining. We pick out some of our favourite things to lay the table with outside. |