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Behind
the Brands
Oxfam's new campaign assesses agricultural sourcing
policies of the world’s ten largest food and beverage
companies and calls on them to take the critical next
steps to create a just food system. Includes a scorecard
and tools so you can tell them exactly what needs to change.
> Behind
the Brands
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Take
the Local Harvest Challenge!
Monday
1st April - Sunday 7th April 2013
It's here again. Our annual Challenge week where
you can practice the art of eating locally, support
local and organic farmers and businesses, and discover
the face behind your food. Versatile, fun and free!
See the 2012 challengers blogs here
> Register here
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What's
in your Cleaning products?
In Australia,
like the US, there is no complusory disclosure of ingredients
in cleaning products (unlike personal care products).
Some ingredients commonly used have significant health
concerns.
So where do you start?
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- The Environmental
Working Group in the US in their 'Guide
to Healthy Cleaning' rate more than 2,000 popular
household cleaning products with grades A through F,
based on the safety of their ingredients and the information
they disclose about their contents. Just seven percent
adequately disclosed their ingredients. Find out more
at Findings,
Label
Decoder, and Hall
of Shame, or search their database.
- ‘What
is it?' is an industry-driven voluntary disclosure
initiative developed by Accord for household cleaning
products sold on the Australian market. Follow the links
to see ingredients in products from participanting major
brand-owners.
- Good
Environmental Choice have developed standards
outlining best practice for cleaning products. Listen
to the ABC interview about ‘Cleaning
up Green Claims' (Nov 2012) and search
for accredited products.
- See
how companies
compare in our Shop Ethica!l database.
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Food
Fight - cool vid
Vandana Shiva
goes hip-hop!? From the same people who brought
you the fantastic Plastic
State of Mind, this music video is subtitled
"Saving Kids From Processed Junk". Don't
miss the seriously counter-cultural message here
for the fun... and don't watch it over breakfast.
> Check
it out! |
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Quick
bites ...
- After 10 years, Asia
Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the biggest rainforest
destroyers, agrees to halt any further deforestation.
(6/2/13) Greenpeace
- Berkshire
Hathaway acquires Heinz (and Golden Circle) for
$28bn (14/2/13) Dawn
- Drinks giant Coca-Cola
won its court case to stop a popular and proven 10 cent
recycling refund scheme in the NT. (18/2/13). Sign the
Greenpeace
petition.
- Nestlé Australia
chocolates now 100% UTZ Certified (19/2/13)
BWA
- Inghams,
Australia's biggest poultry producer, sold to TPG Capital
(11/3/13) SHM
- The Federal Gov't
may favour of a mandatory supermarket code of conduct,
enforceable by the ACCC, over a voluntary code. (18/3/13)
Ausfoodnews
- If you haven't checked
out our new
look website yet, get in there. Clothing
is live!
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