Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of recycling and climate change news from around the world…
Last week I touched on solar power, the Circular Economy and Factory Farming, and a few other topics…Factory Farming has never sat easily with me…although I eat meat I am not a huge meat eater and veggies make up the biggest part of my plate I do care where my meat/fish comes from and how it is reared and on what…
Yesterday I went shopping in one of our two supermarkets and I was horrified when I visited the meat section and the vegetable section…The meat was hacked into portions there was no other word for it…The vegetables looked like they had seen better days I didn’t buy any meat or veg there and will only visit again if I need dry goods i.e flour.
Coupled with an article I came across this morning I am deeply concerned…I haven’t had the chance to fully investigate neither has the parties who wrote the article but they have recommended further investigations…
My initial thoughts are as follows:
For meat to be butchered like that I am almost certain they were not happy animals who were treated to the best in animal husbandry during their lives as in death their meat also was not treated with care or respect and it showed.
The report I read today argues that there is growing evidence that the virus was elsewhere before it emerged in Asia.
That Coronavirus may have lain dormant across the world and emerged when environmental conditions were right for it to thrive.
Those environmental conditions have caused the spotlight to fall on food factories and meatpacking plants and could uncover major new transmission routes, they believe. It may be shared toilet facilities coupled with cool conditions that allow the virus to thrive.
“We’re doing a living review, extracting environmental conditions, the ecology of these viruses which has been grossly understudied,” said Dr. Jefferson.
“There is quite a lot of evidence that huge amounts of the virus in sewage all over the place, and an increasing amount of evidence there is a fecal transmission. There is a high concentration where sewage is four degrees, which is the ideal temperature for it to be stabled and presumably activated. And meatpacking plants are often at four degrees.
Factory Farming, Food Manufacturers, and meatpacking plants all three come under scrutiny time and time again…No smoke without fire springs to mind…All are increasing around the world…Food for thought…?
This next article is close to home for me…
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1945744/monkey-picked-coconut-boycott-spreads?fbclid=I
While I don’t agree that animals should be exploited like this...I do think there are many cases where double standards apply in many areas…
I don’t see major retailers pulling supplies of Monsanto weedkiller, chicken, beef, pork when meat packaging plant practices are highlighted and proved to be cruel.
These companies are constantly proved to be unethical, whether it be for tax avoidance or the treatment of workers at their fulfillment centres., environmental reporting, conflict mineral use, and supply chain management they are always in the news…
Amazon, Walmart, Nestle, Tesco, CocaCola…Do we boycott them?… Nike trainers again…always in the news, children working in sweatshops..the list is endless but are they boycotted… they maybe by you or me…But is enough done? those same people who are pulling coconut products from their shelves are still stocking their shelves with other products which shouldn’t be there either until they improve and prove they have improved their manufacturing and packing standards…
Personally, I think with everything that is going on that we all need to have a rethink…because if this all carries on I dread to think what kind of world my grandchildren will inherit…
Some Good News...
An international collaborative study led by Professor Derrick Yuk Fo Lai at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), joined by top-tier scientists from around the world, has discovered that sustained methane emissions from the subtropical estuarine mangroves can reduce its climatic cooling effects by over 50%, over a period of 20 years.
Whilst the problem of plastic pollution and microplastics in our oceans is gradually receiving more attention, there is still so much that we don’t know and so many solutions that need to be found.
Where does it come from, how much of a problem is it, where does it end up, what effects is it having on wildlife and people, what happens to it in the food chain, how do we get rid of it…?
Are you a committed to recycling do you think about what you buy and whether it can be recycled or reused? Or do you just buy it anyway? This video will inspire you to recycle…
Well, that’s all for me this week on the environment and climate change…we are in our rainy season now so hot steamy days and stormy nights so everything is growing super quick…including the bamboo…x
Thank you for reading be well and stay safe xxx
About Carol Taylor: Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.
I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.
Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing.
Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!
Thank you once again for reading this post I hope you all stay safe and healthy xx