”You are what you eat” reloaded: >> You are how you shop (or not shop)<<

Responsible consumer workshop, for those who want to be responsible, find out what it means responsible

There is a failure somewhere in the system, indeed. Isn’t food meant to be something essential for life and also a tasty, healthy social activity without hurting anyone or anything? Nowadays, it isn’t. If we think of cheap junk food packed in several layers of plastic, or the fruits, which arrive after a long way of transport (CO2 emission) to be halfway ripe and, or our favorite fish and meat sold in a big supermarket coming from industrialized farms facing animal cruelty, containing antibiotics and causing big pollution? Why don’t we care more about our meals? For many people it seems to be easier to stay loyal to a cloth brand (which we wear outside our body), than to spend more thoughts, time, energy, money on what they eat (and gets inside the body). Let’s make sure the failure is not in our system!

Do you ever stop for a moment before buying something (food, cloth, electrical device etc.) to check the details on the package and think about the impact (health, environmental, social) that product has made so far? If so, thank you! If not very often, then this is the time to think about it and give it (and yourself) another chance. Our little practical customs in our behaviour, what needs to be changed as they make the change!

You might think: this is just one drop in the ocean. What if this is the last and most important drop before the water overflows? Consumers have the power of purchasing and to influence producers and distributors. It is always a demand – supply question. As Jane Goodall, one of my personal heroes, says: “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

Do you remember the red and the blue pills Morpheus offers? You decide!  

So, are you interested in turning to a more responsible, conscious, sustainable consumer, participate in the Green Economy and make a positive impact? It is not that hard. It is just one decision away!

Come and learn more about it at our Net Impact workshop on March 15^th.