Eat Green: Not Just Healthy Chocolate
We enjoyed this article by Ecoholic author Adria Vasil on 5 daily food choices that can drastically affect your own health, and that of the earth. Not to mention making eating darn enjoyable in the process!
Of course, we focus on the chocolate excerpt below. However, the article suggests things like eating 20% fewer animal products each week, eating produce grown close to your home, and cutting back on packaging with resusable bags.
“3. Get It Fair and Square
Quick, pick three things that get you through the day and I’ll bet you twenty bucks that coffee, chocolate and sugar make the list. Since none of the above grow on U.S. soil (well other than beet sugar), you want to be sure you buy the kind with a Fair Trade Certified label on the package. Why? Well, the workers that pick those ingredients are generally paid so poorly they’d have to work three days just to afford a Starbucks grande latte! Fair trade certified farms, on the other hand, pay farmhands in developing countries a decent wage, give their families access to health care and education and forbid the use of ultra toxic pesticides (which makes them better for your health, too). Bonus: your sugar-/caffeine-/chocolate-rush blissfully guilt-free”
Healthy Food Choices – Healthy Eating for You and Environment – thedailygreen.com.
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