BOOK REVIEW: How to Eat Right & Save the Planet: A Plant-based Survival Guide for You and Your Family by Bill Tara Bill Tara has a rare gift: the ability to take a very serious topic and deliver the information in such a way that the book is a real page-turner. How to Eat Right
The true cost of cheap, low quality food Providing cheap, low-quality food is not the solution to helping the most disadvantaged in our society cut their food bills. The true cost of cheap food is a negative legacy that affects us all. The good news is that it is easy to reduce your food bill
Yesterday, Mike and I completed our first water fast in support of my son’s ground-breaking project Fast to Feed the World. We’ll be adding loads more information about the project, albeit the website is quite self-explanatory, and about the health benefits of fasting, but I just wanted to share a blog covering our personal experience
Who’s controlling your friends? Drug gangs come from nearby cities to get people just like you to sell their drugs for them. Don’t think all drug dealers are adults. They may only be a few years older than you. They will pretend to be your friend at first. They may offer you cigarettes, or other
This is what started me thinking… It left me feeling sad, angry and confused. But I realise there is hope… The desperation of asylum seekers Early last year I went to a meeting when asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Eritrea and Zimbabwe described the fear which drove them from their homelands, the desperation of their journey
Southend Together Partnership is teaming up with Britain’s biggest supermarket chains to support The Big Swap™ as part of Fairtrade Fortnight. Fairtrade is about establishing better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. Offering a fair price for goods enables them to improve
Tools with a Mission (TWAM) is sending a container to Ahkom School, Sierra Leone with equipment such as tools, school books, science equipment etc. We have all that but they hope to start a marching band. This would really help the morale of the school. They deserve help, it is in a poor area. The
‘Many people are concerned about “cheap” chicken available in the supermarkets. Often, these chickens have been kept in inhumane conditions – squashed together in squalid cages with no natural light – and fed a diet with excesses of growth hormones and antibiotics. But what happens once these birds are killed? We are aware some companies
Are you concerned about genetically engineered food products? Please read the following information from Greenpeace and sign the petition: Dear friends,The world’s most important staple food is under threat and we need your help urgently. Sign the petition Rice is daily food for half of the global population. It has been grown around the world for
There is a G20 conference in London on 28th March when world leaders will be meeting to discuss the economic crises. Avaaz are arranging a Citizens’ March to ensure the leaders ‘Put People First.’ Would you like to be involved and ensure we, the people, are listened to? The following is their news bulletin: “This