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Lancashire Food - A Sustainable Future

Can you help contribute to a sustainable food future?

Would you like to see changes in the way we source our produce, not only in Lancashire but throughout the UK?

For a great number of reasons, our current dependency on supermarkets and heavy on the 'food miles' ingredients is unsustainable. There are a great many ways in which you can contribute to a more sustainable food future and the changes you make will be supporting your community, local businesses and the UK economy, not to mention the difference you'll be making to your health and to reducing the effects of climate change.

What are you waiting for, consider making some of the following changes and see what difference we could all make:

  • Cut down on exotic and imported foods.
  • Support your local farmers market or farm shop.
  • Cut down on supermarket shopping, use your local butcher, baker, fishmonger, etc.
  • Eat more vegetables.
  • Cut down on meat and dairy consumption - try smaller portions with more vegetables.
  • Cut down on food waste - use up leftovers.
  • Buy British - our animal welfare and production standards are among the best in the world.
  • Join or start a community initiative - join your local Slow Food group, for example.
  • Buy more local produce.
  • Choose products that have less packaging.
  • Grow Your Own vegetables, herbs, etc.

Choose produce that's Good, Clean and Fair:

Food should taste GOOD: the fast world's obsession with unnecessary industrialisation, excessive food miles, standardisation and homogeneity very often result in bland food that simply doesn't taste as good as food that has been produced locally with care, pride and passion.

Food should be CLEAN: it should be produced in a sustainable way, without any negative impact on our environment, and with a minimum of artificial intervention.

Food should be produced in a FAIR way: its producers should not be exploited but should be paid a fair amount for their skill and labour.

If you'd like to do more to support good, clean and fair produce in Lancashire, come and join your local Slow Food group - more details here.