I like to think I don’t preach. Just do my little bit as best I can and move on. Would like to be able to do much more in environmental terms but that takes serious cash (heat pumps, solar panels, top end insulation etc). I made the switch to being veggie and massively scaling down dairy...
This part is so true. I’m on the oat milk. Costs much more than cow juice. My supermarket shop has historically been at Waitrose, which recently came out joint top in a Which survey along with Lidl for sustainability ratings. I try and shop local for food where I can. But the sad postscript...
That’s a varied issue. Oat milk is said to be very good in terms of carbon emissions, Hemp milk still better if you can find it. Almond milk is thought to be hugely damaging to the bee population. Nothing’s ever simple.
You may be right but little by little the tide is turning on this stuff. I’m almost 50. Turned veggie a year back. Have massively cut down on dairy and am edging towards (gasp) going vegan. Just an increased awareness over time that all this stuff we like to think of as benign comes at a...