A big green rant
Hello,
this weekend, I advise a little recipe to make and I took the chopped I missed in Delhaize.
It was when I took the package out of the fridge that I was amazed by the label.
This pig who gave his body to the kitchen has traveled an incredible mileage, and alive to do well.
Take a good look at the label and you will see:
birth: Canada
breeding: Australia
slaughter: Belgium
cutting: elsewhere in Belgium
(see the scan below)
Between Canada and Australia there are more or less 17000kms and between Australia and Belgium there is more or less the same distance. If I had to travel the same distance with my Fiat, I would need more than 1500 liters of fuel oil at almost one euro per liter, or roughly 1500 euros, and yet the price per kilo of this meat is completely normal.
I don't know why, but I kind of feel like eating oil rather than lean pork.
I just insist that we have producers at home and that the basis of ecology and energy saving is not to go around the planet to the beast that is intended to our plate.
In conclusion, take a good look at the label of what you buy in supermarkets, there is something to be surprised.
The label scan:
An idea of the road traveled:
A) It is a Belgian label, I do not believe that there is such traceability on meat packaging in France ...
B) We will check the info the next time we go to a Delhaize (quite rarely)
