Buddhism for Meat Eaters by Josephine Moon

Author:Josephine Moon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
Published: 2019-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

Mindful purchasing

The act of buying food is a fantastic opportunity to practise mindfulness. You can learn to feel food and most people will be able to notice the difference between the feel of food that is in a supermarket, and which has probably been in storage for months, or come from overseas (and possibly chemically treated before it was released into the country) and fresh produce from farmers markets. It’s tangible.

Where you buy your food and how much thought you put into it is so important. If you want to help save the earth and animals, then choosing organic produce is obviously your best choice, given how much synthetic chemicals do to the environment and its inhabitants. Buying locally produced food is also a no-brainer, as it means lower carbon footprints through lower food miles and it also means your food is as fresh as you can find it without growing it yourself. Of course, growing as much of your own food as you can is wonderful too and it means you can utilise that nutritious compost we’re all supposed to be making in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Meat that has been raised free range goes some way to improving the life of the animal, though it can be a tricky thing to monitor. For instance, free range eggs are notorious for not accurately describing what a chicken’s life is really like, because there is currently no legal definition of what ‘free range’ means in terms of number of birds per hectare or their access to pastures and sunshine, for example. Organically raised meat is, by definition, free range (though, again, the actual conditions of what that means does vary).

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