Ecologist Guide to Food

to cover all the issues connected to our modern food system we’d need a book many times the size of this one.

Add to this the ‘bigger’ challenges facing the planet – climate change, a rising population, water shortages – and you have a potential recipe for disaster.

THE HIDDEN COST OF CHOICE If you are reading this, you are probably lucky enough to live in the ‘developed’ world, where – as long as you have the means of paying for it – there are seemingly endless food choices and a year-round abundance of often frighteningly cheap foodstuffs from every corner of the earth.

As the environmental debate has evolved and increasingly moved into the mainstream, The Ecologist has placed more emphasis on promoting ethical consumerism.