Day 9: Eco-friendly food

According to WWF, food production is the reason for 60% of diversity loss. So part of my challenge, I have decided, is to make the food I buy eco-friendly. It encourages me to learn that consumers are searching supermarkets for eco-friendly products.

What specifically? Well, I have learnt that 1 cup of coffee = 1 inch of rainforest gone… 

Rainforest Alliance is one way, although their standards have gone down in recent years. Two other labels to look for are Shade Grown and Bird Friendly. 

If tea is more your thing: Look for B-Corp accreditation, aimed at being more sustainable and fairer. It’s not just for tea, so look out for it elsewhere.

UTZ is the same: a way to show farms are working for sustainability.

As regards teabags: they actually release plastic particles as the tea brews (https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/some-plastic-your-tea-300919). So perhaps now is the time to find a better type of tea…?

Guess what I’ll be doing in the coffee aisle next time I go shopping!