I eat meat. I respect those who have made a moral decision to become vegetarian but I am no longer one of them. I have also made my decision after much thought and consideration and am content with my decision.
However, I buy only free-range eggs and wherever possible I make sure that they are not only free-range, but also organic and rare-breed.
I buy only organic milk and am trying to move toward organic cheese and butter as I am concerned about abuses in the dairy trade.
I am increasingly choosing organic meat and will only buy chicken if it has a freedom food label at the very least- usually I chose organic.
I am trying to move toward Fair Trade coffee, tea, and sugar but I am having trouble with Fair Trade chocolate as I just don't like it as much!
I try to boycott ALL Nestle products and brands, even though this has meant giving up my favourite San Pellegrino bottled water and Lancome and Maybelline cosmetics.
I do not tell others what they should believe or how they should live their lives. I make decisions according to my conscience alone.
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- I'm a country girl who ended up in the city almost by mistake. My marriage ended earlier this year and now I cook for myself and my friends!
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3 comments:
Is San Pelegrino fizzy? Have you tried Badoit? It's lovely, and the only sparkling water my boy will drink. It's also naturally fizzy - I find that incredible! How on earth does water come out of the ground fizzy?! I remember when I stopped being a vegan, it was a hard decision to make but in the end, I had lost sight of why I was one in the first place. So I understand I think. What fairtrade chocolate have you tried?
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For me it's all about not focussing on one issue and feeling all warm and fuzzy at being "good" but looking at how to live your whole life in a more ethical way. I only use eco-friendly cleaning stuff, I've gone back to shopping locally, we don't have a car, our last few holidays have been in the UK and haven't involved any flying, I recycle, I compost (though the bloody fruit flies are driving me mad). I don't claim to be an ethical person as I'm seriously flawed, but I'm trying.
Maybelline?
Good lord, every month I find another Nestle incorporated label/ product I have to knock off the list!
The co-op do their own fairtrade chocolate and cake. It's cheap and it's yummy! So I stick with that.
And my ethical view is that bottled water is a waste of time, resources, plastic and it travels a long way, so I filter my water at home and we have a machine that does it at work. Practically free and never done me any harm!
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