{"id":161,"date":"2009-12-20T10:09:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T09:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=161"},"modified":"2009-12-20T10:09:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T09:09:37","slug":"it-not-only-seems-ok-to-eat-kenyan-green-beans-it-seems-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2009\/12\/20\/it-not-only-seems-ok-to-eat-kenyan-green-beans-it-seems-right\/","title":{"rendered":"It not only seems ok to eat Kenyan green beans, it seems right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome news from Oxfam, whose new publication, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/resources\/policy\/climate_change\/fair-food-miles\"><em>Fair Miles<\/em><\/a><em>: recharting the food miles map<\/em>,<span style=\"font-size: 22px\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px\"> explores the dilemma of whether it is ethically sound to eat fresh food shipped (air-freighted, more like) in from distant places. \u00a0Many a glass of new world chardonnay has been enjoyed whist debating such issues, of course. \u00a0Oxfam note:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 22px\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">This pocketbook delves into the realities of the produce trade between Africa and the UK, examining both sides of the equation in search of a diet that is ethically, as well as nutritionally, balanced.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 22px\"><span style=\"font-size: 13px\">This is a booklet for those who want to think through the issues for themselves, but who like the idea of an ethical \/ nutritional balance to what they eat, and the data provided here (although rather jumbled in my view) will help greatly, even though it inevitably remains a complex area. \u00a0The strong contribution of UK consumers to developing world economies through trade is laid bare, and ought to act as a counter weight to all those siren voices whose idea of the future is to go back to a time (just when was this?) when all food was grown locally. \u00a0A valuable ESD resource for teachers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome news from Oxfam, whose new publication, Fair Miles: recharting the food miles map, explores the dilemma of whether it is ethically sound to eat fresh food shipped (air-freighted, more like) in from distant places. \u00a0Many a glass of new...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}