Genetically modified food gets consumed by billions of people across the globe. Please do what this incredible young man did and find out how your food is prepared before supporting a product. If an 11-year-old is brave enough to stand up and talk about this, then the rest of us have no excuse.

Most of us prefer to eat organic fruit and vegetables, but they are not always easy to get hold of. One might find one or two products here and there in a supermarket, but who has the time to schlepp around in order to take care of your family and the earth simultaneously?

Deni and Carlin are 19 days into their trip and they have finally made it out of the Western Cape.

Siek en sat van die gejaagdheid van die stadslewe? Gesinslede sien mekaar soms net oor naweke. Insidente van spanningsverwante siektes styg jaarliks. Die koop, voorbereiding en gebruik van voedsel is net nóg een van die gejaagde aksies wat daagliks moet plaasvind. 

Nothing says I love you more than a super healthy Raw Stawberry Mousse. With the month of love and romance upon us there’s no better time to treat yourself and your loved ones to this healthy and nutritious fruit.

Most of our readers would most probably love to eat only organic foods? By now we know why it would hugely benefit the earth and our bodies, yet these foods are not always readily available and sometime still end up over-packaged and or over-priced on shop shelves.

800 million of the one billion starving people in the world would have food to eat if Americans all became vegetarian.

By raising awareness, Food With A Story hope to shift the choices people make, in turn encouraging more growers, manufacturers and suppliers to improve their ecological footprints.

Together with a set of stamps on 12 August 2011 celebrating six kinds of nutritious, easy-to-grow vegetables, the SA Post Office will issue a free recipe booklet containing recipes that feature each of the vegetables as the main ingredient.

Using updated research and statistics, The Protein Crunch summarises the problems of our current capitalist era, and gives us an idea of what is yet to come. Drew started doing research on our environment and food systems intensively after having two heart attacks. His motivation? He realised the only game worth playing is living.

At Spier we seek to employ people who compliment our current team. Warm and generous individuals who care about others (fellow staff members, our guests and surrounding communities), who are vibrant and creative in their approach to their jobs and the Vision of Spier. We look for purposeful individuals who are concerned about our environment, people and the sustainability of our business. Individuals who can and do make a difference!

If a peer reviewed article states that genetically modified plants are harmless, there's a good chance they are knowingly or unknowingly lying. Research published in the leading scientific journal Science Direct, concludes that commercial interests help shape the findings of peer reviewed articles about the health risks of genetically modified plants.

Waverley Hills (see pictures) was awarded not only a gold medal for their Shiraz Mourvèdre Viognier 2009 but also snatched the Best Organic Wine - Southern Hemisphere award at the 2011 Challenge International du Vin.

This challenge was held for the 35th time in Bourg(Bordeaux, France) on 8 and 9 April 2011. During the competition, 4624 wines from 35 countries were judged by 768 tasters, including people from the wine industry and consumer-connoisseurs.

Local shoppers are used to eating avocados right through the year and of course they are not seasonal all year round. Going the extra mile to cut their carbon footprint is what the new innovative Woolies avocado plan is all about.

In the past this green supermarket used to import avos for 3 months of the year from Spain. As they're super serious about their sustainability programme, called their Good business journey, this system no longer made sense.

In the US the majority of foods you buy at the supermarket contain corn in one form or another. Tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) a lighter fluid is used by the US government to preserve fast food when 5g of the fluid can kill you. In the US it is possible to buy organic microwaveable meals.

Indigenous natural and healing plants should be used with caution. In the case of the plant Sceletium tortuosum, the science seems to show that people should be careful not to overdose. Scientist Dr Carine Smith of Stellenbosch University warns that if you want to chew its leaves to calm you or make you feel less depressed, you should do so in moderation ' don't indulge yourself indiscriminately.

'Honey has been waiting for almost ten million years for a good biography. Essential to the food, drink, religion, economics, medicine and arts of every civilization since the Egyptians, honey ' and the bees that make it ' have been a vital part of the human record for millennia.'

Since 1981, World Food Day is celebrated on October 16th of every year to raise awareness of the issues behind poverty and hunger. The facts are still shocking: According to the 2010 Global Hunger Index 925 million of the world's population do not have access to sufficient food and drinking water. Consequently, every day 24.000 people die of hunger. To showcase and explain existing policies that can help solve this tragic global failure, on World Food Day 2010 the Hamburg-based World Future Council Foundation will launch a new 'Agriculture and Food' section on their policy solutions website www.futurepolicy.org.

The Woolworths Trust has joined forces with Absa as co-sponsor of the Siyakhana Food Garden Project in Bezuidenhout Park, Johannesburg. Siyakhana is an innovative urban agricultural project established by the Public Oral Health and Health Promotion Units of Wits University. The R1 million investment in Siyakhana represents a further substantial investment by the retailer in food security programmes in South Africa.

On Sunday the 4th of July, a group of customers, suppliers, friends and interested parties celebrated the official launch of AFRIKARA Co-op, a new style consumer-producer association. The founding of Afrikara was spearheaded by Aletta Venter, Francois & Henriëtte Malan, Gustav van der Merwe, Liesl Haasbroek and Louis le Roex, all of them passionate supporters of a new social order in which active communities and healthy environments form the foundation of sustainable living and prosperity.

More than 233 000 children across the Western Cape who receive their main meal of the day at school will no longer be eating mostly soya content 5 days a week, but from May are enjoying lots of fresh fruit and veggies.

Although soya mince will still be on the menu twice a week, the new menu will also include pilchards in tomato sauce and Breyani lentils.
'We are excited about being able to offer the children a more nutritionally balanced meal,' said Andy du Plessis, Director of the Peninsula School Feeding Association (PSFA). 'And we really hope that our donors will continue to support us through the increase in costs which are inevitable with the new menu.'

In keeping with the country's status as one of the most eco-progressive winemaking nations, local winemakers are starting to introduce lighter wine bottles into their collections to help off-set their carbon footprints. As reported in the Business Report recently, sales of individually packaged South African Wines in the UK rose by 11 percent in 2009 and Wines of South Africa (WOSA), expect further growth this year.

Livestock farming produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transport combined ' according to a recent UN report...

'The maximum potential from the world's oceans ... has probably been reached.' So reads the FAO World Fisheries Report for 2008. 76% of the world's ocean fish stocks, including South African line fish, are exploited at or above sustainable levels.

A midleading British study had overlooked the last 40 years of field trials and research which prove the superiority of organics and confused many consumers. It had claimed there is little benefit to eating organic food and was also aired locally in the media, but it was criticised for being methodologically flawed...

Sprouts are the only living food ' they are still growing when we eat them. This is an incredible thought because it means that the life force is transmitted to our bodies, with astounding benefits. I recently went to a Transition SA talk on sprouting by Joseph Fiegelson...

In 1989 three friends met at a pub in London called the Slug and Lettuce. When they noticed that the people at the next-door table were discussing green issues too, they pulled the tables together ' and thus the concept was born.

'Several animal studies indicate serious health risks associated with GM food. There is more than a casual association between GM foods and adverse health effects. There is causation.'

New-age markets, farmers markets, slow food markets, and true organic markets.