Why I am a Vegan

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Sorry, a little off-topic, but just stumbled upon this article, and thought you might be interested to read it as well: Are You Eating Smuggled Avocados?

yeah, great article facettes.

The article seems to pinpoint that restaurants are the main buyers of these stolen items.  But I'm sure they can infilitrate supply chains in insidious ways.

 

Hopefully, going organic, and where possible local or fair trade, might offer a chance to avoid this? Better even, growing your own (no chance in our climate)!

yeah, the business that I buy from (organic, delivers to most areas in Sydney) seems pretty trustworthy, although I've never been to their warehouse and seen how they operate, from the inside.  They claim to establish a one-on-one relationship with all the farmers that supply the produce that ends up with the customers (ie, me).

They even have profiles of the farms - and where they're located; so if someone was ultra-vigilant, they could contact the farms directly, and talk to the people involved.

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as for growing your own, I'm not much of a green thumb myself, and I live in an apartment building.  Greens could be viable, but haven't gone down that route myself.

Definitely would be very re-empowering to have some of your own food grown right under your nose.

There was actually someone at Homecoming this year who talked about how much of their own food that they grow.  Very inspiring!