Going Green Friendly

Don’t Be Polite. It’s Your Right.

I was at a nice little tea room the other day, enjoying a brie and cranberry sauce jacket potato when I noticed a leaflet beside me about the ‘Simply Ask’ campaign.

To my amazement, this leaflet showed me a shocking statistic on how our resturants are using a whopping 80% of eggs that are not free range! 80%! still coming from battery hens! It should be zero!

National Trust have been using free range for 6 years, more than half a million free range eggs in its baking and cooking in this time. This is the kind of result that I am sure all of us would like to see in all of our resturants. So this is where you come in, the campaign is urging people to ‘Simply Ask’ any restaurant, cafe or pub if the eggs that they use are cage-free. Simple.

For more infomation on the ’simply ask’ campaign just click here!

Or for more details on the RSPCA freedom food, click here!

Lynda Brewer is the Catering Development Manager for the National Trust, this is what she had to say;

‘By taking simple steps, such as finding a national supplier of free range eggs, or even better, a supplier local to your business, all catering companies can easily follow our example and use only free range eggs in their cooking. There really is no excuse to use eggs laid by hens kept in appalling conditions.’

Backed by top chefs including Raymond Blanc, Antony Worrall Thompson, and Paul Merrett, the campaign urges people to ‘Simply Ask’ about where their food comes from when eating out.

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2000 trees is an intimate music festival set in the beautiful Cotswolds, with an affordable ticket price for anyone!

One of the many reasons I am so interested in this festival is because it reflects my desire to promote green issues and awareness. 2000 trees have made a huge effort to reduce the carbon footprint a music festival can have on the environment. They seek to do this in many simple but effective ways.

By serving locally produced organic food and drinks in reusable or biodegradable containers and allowing visitors to the site the chance to recycle and compost, has allowed 2000 trees to gain a 78% recycle rate, which is 48% more than your average music festival.

They have even taken into consideration the effect of flying bands in from different countries has on the environment. Consequently, most (but not all) bands are UK-based, resulting in less miles travelled, so fewer CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

To project the message of green energy even further the festival has on site demonstrations all about renewable energy, including solar panels, wind turbines and pedal powered chargers for mobile phones.  Despite all of the efforts, so far the organisers of the festival seek to do more. They are aiming to use solar, wind and pedal energy as a long-term environmentally friendly way of enjoying a music festival.

It is a festival that is truly inspiring. Click here for details.

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