Category Archives: Conscious Eating

Slavery for Shrimp

23 Monday Jun 2014

Posted by in Anti-Trafficking, Conscious Eating, Food Consciousness, Rising

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shrimp slavery

In Thailand, they are called the ghost ships.
There are no ghosts. Instead, there are human beings. The marginalized. The poor. The migrant worker…trafficked and enslaved, forced to work on these unregistered ships, so shrimp can be sold to you cheaply. Slave laborers harvest “trash fish” — the fishmeal fed to farm raised shrimp.

CP Foods (Charoen Pokphand) is the world’s largest supplier and offender. They report that over 3 billion people a year globally consume their products. From UK, to Europe to US — in your friendly supermarket, and the largest of the big guys: Costco, Carrefour and Walmart (that’s Woolco in Canada, Walmex in Mexico, Bompreco in Brazil, Asda in the UK), are buying from CP Foods and selling you a forkful of misery in every bite of Thai shrimp…at low, low prices!

Project Issara, founded by Anti-Slavery International, works to eliminate slavery within export-oriented industries in Thailand. The project seeks to push brands to stop buying slavery-made products, and to leverage their power to eliminate slavery within global supply chains. Plausible deniability of Thailand’s deep-sea forced labor is no longer an easy defense for importers. But the practice, and world-wide profiting is still very much a reality.

How can you help? My dear friends…it’s so easy.
Don’t eat the misery…put down your fork and stand up. Stop buying Thai shrimp. Shut your wallet. Feel the power. Use your power! Sign the petition:

Sign the petition at SumofUs

Eat the Sun

21 Saturday Jun 2014

Posted by in Conscious Eating, Family Farms, Food Consciousness, Greenmarkets, Healthy Eating, Locally Grown, Organic

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(Photo: Flickr4jazz


The sun is up,
the sky is blue
Eat the sun,
It’s good for you.

The Solstice spins us into summer today. Shift into the sun with conscious eating: know what’s in your food and where it comes from. Promise yourself you will eat well…and keep your promise.

In June, The CDC reported that more than 29 million people in the United States have diabetes. Three million more since 2010. One in four people with diabetes doesn’t know he or she has it. And another one in three people — 86 million adults, have prediabetes.

The short of it? That’s a lot of people getting sick.

Control, and even cure, includes exercise and better diet choices.

Celebrate summer with fresh, local, non-GMO produce from greenmarkets and natural food centers. Help support local farms, farmers and your own good health.

Go outside! Walk to that produce, my friend, get some Vitamin D from the sun, and find something healthy for dinner.

In NYC?
Visit Grow NYC to find greenmarket locations and hours, which ones accept EBT/Food Stamps, offer textile recycling and have a food scrap compost drop off: http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/search

Visit What Is Fresh for greenmarket details around the city.