Tristram Stuart
Tristram Stuart
Tristram Stuartis an English author and campaigner...
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motivation inspiration people
We, the people, do have the power to stop [the] tragic waste of resources if we regard it as socially unacceptable to waste food.
avoids behind cheap farmers feed food government livestock matter parts provides recycling sending south taiwan waste
In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.
bloodless pages parallel printed slice stack thousands toxic words
As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.
exotic fed hundred invented items list open possibly raisin ripe skip
Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.
benign generating organic prefer rule
Of course, I prefer organic farming to chemical-dependent farming, but sometimes absolutist organic prescriptions go too far. I don't even rule out the possibility of genetic modification generating some benign ideas, as long as we can keep them away from monopolists such as Monsanto.
animals appear eating environmental evidence time winning
Vegetarians have been around for a very long time - Pythagoreans forbade eating animals more than 2,500 years ago - but even as the environmental evidence mounted, they didn't appear to be winning the argument.