Ethical Eats
Apr. 11th, 2007 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
purpletigron"A unique new organisation has been launched to promote green issues among London restaurants. Ethical Eats is a network of the capital’s eateries brought together by sustainable food experts London Food Link to champion the ethical approach to catering."
http://www.sustainweb.org/news.php?id=176
"Britain’s retailers and supermarkets have been responding with great speed to their customers’ demands for organic and fair-trade clothing and foods. But the comparable provenance of restaurant food has been ignored so far. Except for the much-lauded few such as Acorn House, the Duke of Cambridge Organic Pub and Konstam, the majority have not made much effort to develop sustainable and environmentally friendly business practices. Which is odd, considering that UK consumers spend more money on eating out than on buying food to make at home. ... Leon is a little chain that has organic foods on the menu, tries to get 70% of its ingredients from the UK and serves free range chicken. Moshi Moshi, a sushi chain, gets almost half their fish directly from fishermen in south-west England. ..."
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/ethical_eats.php
http://www.sustainweb.org/news.php?id=176
"Britain’s retailers and supermarkets have been responding with great speed to their customers’ demands for organic and fair-trade clothing and foods. But the comparable provenance of restaurant food has been ignored so far. Except for the much-lauded few such as Acorn House, the Duke of Cambridge Organic Pub and Konstam, the majority have not made much effort to develop sustainable and environmentally friendly business practices. Which is odd, considering that UK consumers spend more money on eating out than on buying food to make at home. ... Leon is a little chain that has organic foods on the menu, tries to get 70% of its ingredients from the UK and serves free range chicken. Moshi Moshi, a sushi chain, gets almost half their fish directly from fishermen in south-west England. ..."
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/04/ethical_eats.php
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Date: 2007-04-13 05:57 pm (UTC)