| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace 20:49 - May 10 with 1031 views | Catullus |
Tesco doesn’t want you knowing this:
The supermarket giant is STILL doing deals with companies that are torching precious forests. [1]
Vast areas of the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal are slashed and burned each year. With land then cleared to make way for grazing cattle, or soya for animal feed.
As the UK's biggest supermarket seller of industrial meat, and a huge buyer of soya, Tesco is making big profits from products linked to forest destruction.
With such huge buying power, Tesco could be a leader in stripping deforestation from supply chains. But instead Tesco bosses are burying their heads in the sand. |  |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 22:34 - May 10 with 965 views | felixstowe_jack |
I am sure all the supermarkets do the same . I blame the customers they just want cheap food. The vegans make things worse insisting we all used palm oil in our vegan products.
It would help in all supermarkets tried to source most of their meat products from the UK. | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 22:45 - May 10 with 952 views | jack_lord |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 22:34 - May 10 by felixstowe_jack |
I am sure all the supermarkets do the same . I blame the customers they just want cheap food. The vegans make things worse insisting we all used palm oil in our vegan products.
It would help in all supermarkets tried to source most of their meat products from the UK. |
If the UK has enough then absolutely. Not sure how our exports would fare? |  |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 09:01 - May 11 with 891 views | onehunglow |
Again,stupefying hypocrisy.
People whinging about the rainforest,carbon emissions,plastic are those who in private evidence none of these concerns .It's good to be seen preaching environmental matters though.
Imagine our foodbills doubling overnight
Price of fuel tripling
Cars simply banned
Mankind stinks | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 09:01 - May 11 with 893 views | felixstowe_jack |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 22:45 - May 10 by jack_lord |
If the UK has enough then absolutely. Not sure how our exports would fare? |
I am sure our exports would be fine we just all need to source local goods where we can but no country can meet 100% of it's needs. | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 09:05 - May 11 with 889 views | onehunglow |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 09:01 - May 11 by felixstowe_jack |
I am sure our exports would be fine we just all need to source local goods where we can but no country can meet 100% of it's needs. |
Wales would be ok for water and wool though. | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 09:50 - May 11 with 876 views | Catullus |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 09:01 - May 11 by onehunglow |
Again,stupefying hypocrisy.
People whinging about the rainforest,carbon emissions,plastic are those who in private evidence none of these concerns .It's good to be seen preaching environmental matters though.
Imagine our foodbills doubling overnight
Price of fuel tripling
Cars simply banned
Mankind stinks |
Now then, we recycle as much as possible. We buy most of our food from a local business who delivers it, meat, veg and fruit, some of the fruit is imported but most of the food is Uk sourced.
We try to buy our "stuff" from UK sources where possible.
The truth is it's very hard to be eco friendly. The sources of what we buy are often hidden. I'm not a fan of supermarkets but seeing as they put so mnay local businesses out of business I have to use them for some things.
For many of us it's not hypocrisy, it's just fairly impossible to be as green as we want. Since we moved to this house we have done a lot of work on our garden and have turned half of it over to growing food. There's a lot to do yet but we already have potatoes coming, they'll be ready soon. | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 10:13 - May 11 with 868 views | Sandanista |
Less than 60% food we need is from U.K. Very bad | | | |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 10:16 - May 11 with 863 views | Catullus |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 10:13 - May 11 by Sandanista |
Less than 60% food we need is from U.K. Very bad |
A lot of it isn't food we NEED though, it's food we want. We could increase the amount of food supplied from the UK but people want cheap food regardless of the environmental or health problems this cheap food may bring. | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 11:29 - May 11 with 848 views | onehunglow |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 09:50 - May 11 by Catullus |
Now then, we recycle as much as possible. We buy most of our food from a local business who delivers it, meat, veg and fruit, some of the fruit is imported but most of the food is Uk sourced.
We try to buy our "stuff" from UK sources where possible.
The truth is it's very hard to be eco friendly. The sources of what we buy are often hidden. I'm not a fan of supermarkets but seeing as they put so mnay local businesses out of business I have to use them for some things.
For many of us it's not hypocrisy, it's just fairly impossible to be as green as we want. Since we moved to this house we have done a lot of work on our garden and have turned half of it over to growing food. There's a lot to do yet but we already have potatoes coming, they'll be ready soon. |
My point is aimed at those who use the subject for ulterior motives.
I certainly wouldn’t welcome such measures
Whatever we do matter little ifChina just does what it wants | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 11:54 - May 11 with 842 views | Sandanista |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 10:16 - May 11 by Catullus |
A lot of it isn't food we NEED though, it's food we want. We could increase the amount of food supplied from the UK but people want cheap food regardless of the environmental or health problems this cheap food may bring. |
No we have ‘Hungry Gap’ without. Meat, dairy and grains also imported. No imports=starvation and no choice
https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/local-sourcing-news-farm/what-hungr | | | |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 12:57 - May 11 with 833 views | 73__73 |
Global warming isn’t a new phenomena. It happened many times before, and will happen many times again. | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 19:05 - May 11 with 763 views | Catullus |
We export food too mind. we send over 23 billion quids worth to other countries, meat and dairy.
We also throw away a lot of food every day. We bin over 10 billion quids worth or between £250-400 per household per year.
We have enough land to grow more food and have more cattle. We could produce as much food as we need but people would have to adjust, have to cook fresh and use leftovers up, not just bin them.
There are foods we'd end up going without and there's the rub, too many people wouldn't accept it. | |
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| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 08:44 - May 12 with 704 views | onehunglow |
| Tesco...accordingbto Greenpeace on 19:05 - May 11 by Catullus |
We export food too mind. we send over 23 billion quids worth to other countries, meat and dairy.
We also throw away a lot of food every day. We bin over 10 billion quids worth or between £250-400 per household per year.
We have enough land to grow more food and have more cattle. We could produce as much food as we need but people would have to adjust, have to cook fresh and use leftovers up, not just bin them.
There are foods we'd end up going without and there's the rub, too many people wouldn't accept it. |
Left overs/
Our kids would be flooding social services and social media would choke. | |
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