On tonight was the Sustainability Forum so I signed up for it as I feel it is quiet close to home (I will explain why in a minute). After my project in the summer I think it is quite important to continue to educate myself on how much our world seems is being affected and what I can do about it. Most of the time I feel completely and utterly hopeless and confused. It makes me quiet angry, I am by the way fully aware I am coming across as an angry person, although I would prefer to think of it as passionate about issues that really matter. The two speakers where
Dr Keith Skene and Vivien Collie, I enjoyed both of their talks and they did both make me think.
The main topic tonight was food Sustainability. I admit though I had already done a small amount of research on this myself, not that I wasn't educated tonight. I just already understood a few of the issues that where discussed. This might be because I love food, I love to cook and I love to watching cooking shows, another reason is for my slight understanding might be my summer project where I chose to do it on water which inevitable lead on to food. There is also the factor that I am in a relationship with someone studying conservation, in which he constantly explains things to me.
Anyway the fact that we are running out of food due to the growing population and with that less energy that is needed to over come our future problem. Eating less meat was one suggestion, it is something I personally might struggle with, I love vegetarian options, but I also love meat and am not sure how much I could take of a reduction of a food group I crave for. Anything I "crave for" is children, which was another thing Dr Skene suggested we reduce the amount of by having one each, although he wasn't sure if that would work, personally i think you need siblings as a strong foothold in reality, it gives you more time to develop social skills and the fact that my brother has easily with no question shaped who I am make me think and wonder how we can change the way our family unit is, although I guess it is changing by it's self anyway.
Vivien Collie hit different issues that still held my interest her idea of community and local produces is something my own father encourages. She talked about how she set up a farmers market in a couple of place in fife, one of which is my home town. i have been to this farmers market, I personally love them but I can not afford them. I wish I had the money to support local farmers but I do seem to feed the giants of food. She has been to the place I work Cairnie Fruit Farm, and looked at other local produce I have grown up with a known about. Another thing is the idea of the big four supermarkets that monopolising the market. One of the things that people who are from Cupar say is that it is just charity shops and estate agencies, Tesco killed the local economy and admittedly. some of our most unique shops lost so much business to tesco and now they are gone. Although the town councils have finally taken a positive step, Tesco's brought an area of land next to their current site in Cupar and they planned to turn it into a Tesco's Extra, the town council said they had to reduces their non food goods in ratio to their food goods to go ahead with they plans so as not to damage the community economy (anymore).
So after the event I have decided to avoid Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys and Morrisons, I will only buy food when I need it unless it is something that will into go out of date and I will try to plan my week. As well as eating more Vegetables and less meat. I do need to lose weight (I'm not being a silly girl here i am overweight according to the doctor) and there is nothing wrong with trying to better my health. Anyway I put to you to try it with me, buy what you need as you go, plan for the week ahead, eat less meat and think about trying to put your money in smaller business pockets.
Dr Keith Skene and Vivien Collie, I enjoyed both of their talks and they did both make me think.
The main topic tonight was food Sustainability. I admit though I had already done a small amount of research on this myself, not that I wasn't educated tonight. I just already understood a few of the issues that where discussed. This might be because I love food, I love to cook and I love to watching cooking shows, another reason is for my slight understanding might be my summer project where I chose to do it on water which inevitable lead on to food. There is also the factor that I am in a relationship with someone studying conservation, in which he constantly explains things to me.
Anyway the fact that we are running out of food due to the growing population and with that less energy that is needed to over come our future problem. Eating less meat was one suggestion, it is something I personally might struggle with, I love vegetarian options, but I also love meat and am not sure how much I could take of a reduction of a food group I crave for. Anything I "crave for" is children, which was another thing Dr Skene suggested we reduce the amount of by having one each, although he wasn't sure if that would work, personally i think you need siblings as a strong foothold in reality, it gives you more time to develop social skills and the fact that my brother has easily with no question shaped who I am make me think and wonder how we can change the way our family unit is, although I guess it is changing by it's self anyway.
Vivien Collie hit different issues that still held my interest her idea of community and local produces is something my own father encourages. She talked about how she set up a farmers market in a couple of place in fife, one of which is my home town. i have been to this farmers market, I personally love them but I can not afford them. I wish I had the money to support local farmers but I do seem to feed the giants of food. She has been to the place I work Cairnie Fruit Farm, and looked at other local produce I have grown up with a known about. Another thing is the idea of the big four supermarkets that monopolising the market. One of the things that people who are from Cupar say is that it is just charity shops and estate agencies, Tesco killed the local economy and admittedly. some of our most unique shops lost so much business to tesco and now they are gone. Although the town councils have finally taken a positive step, Tesco's brought an area of land next to their current site in Cupar and they planned to turn it into a Tesco's Extra, the town council said they had to reduces their non food goods in ratio to their food goods to go ahead with they plans so as not to damage the community economy (anymore).
So after the event I have decided to avoid Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys and Morrisons, I will only buy food when I need it unless it is something that will into go out of date and I will try to plan my week. As well as eating more Vegetables and less meat. I do need to lose weight (I'm not being a silly girl here i am overweight according to the doctor) and there is nothing wrong with trying to better my health. Anyway I put to you to try it with me, buy what you need as you go, plan for the week ahead, eat less meat and think about trying to put your money in smaller business pockets.
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