In Him

The Climate Change Diet 

~ Buy fresh, locally-produced food, which has less distance to travel and therefore uses less fuel.

~ Eat fewer processed and refrigerated foods, which take more energy to manufacture, transport and store.

~ Waste less food – about one-third of the food we prepare is thrown away uneaten. Don’t over-order in restaurants, and eat smaller portions.

~ Drink tap water, not bottled water, which uses large amounts of energy to produce.

~ Reduce the amount of meat and animal and diary products we eat. Meat is much more energy intensive and requires proportionally more land to graze animals than crops. Instead, eat foods lower down the food chain – grains, fruits and vegetables that are cheaper to grow, use less energy and less land space.

~ Buy foods in season – seasonal products generally use less energy to produce.

I was just out the front of our house as hubby checked the letterbox and heard one of our chooks “going off”.  I thought she was simply laying an egg, but it went on for too long.  Dave went to look and a black cat had her backed into a corner screaming.  The second the cat saw Dave it was off.  We had the girls out free-ranging today, but it looks like their freedom has been cut short because of another’s greed.  We’ve been looking at putting some netting above the chook enclosure for a while now.  This will speed it up I’m sure.  Gorgeous (the attacked chook) is unhurt, apart from a couple of missing tail feathers.