>
>so I have a few questions for other list members on this:
>- i had heard teabags are bad for the environment,
>but i never got a detailed explanation, anyone
>know about this?
>- do you know of any good web sites that give people
>this kind of information (earth friendly choices to make on an
>individual consumer basis)
>- i would like to buy organic milk products, the kind that
>does not have this bovine hormone junk, but
>i've had a heck of a time finding products (yogurt and cheese)
>that tell you, the consumer, that they are bh free - anyone
>know more about such producers/distributors?
>
>i think that's all that i can think for now...
>thanks in advance for any more info...
>
>Vera Britto
>([EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.umich.edu/~fiatlux)
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Hey Vera,
I bet that its the dioxin that comes from bleaching the tea bag paper that
you've been warned about. There are teas that use unbleached paper. The
best teas are loose anyway, so using a tea strainer is cheaper, more
environmentaly friendly and you end up with better tea. There are some
very good organic black teas available now. I'd certainly hope that
Celestial Seasoning and other tea companies use unbleached paper, but i
don't know this for a fact.
As for milk, i don't know why your health food store or co-op doesn't have
organic milk products. I suspect they do. We've been buying organic milk
,at our local health food store, in returnable glass bottles for a number
of years now and are satisfied customers or someplace called the "Chrome
Dairy". If we can buy this in our one stoplight, 10 k pop. , appalachian
county, then i would assume you can get it where you are. We can also get
organic cheese and yogurt at a better price through a local buying club.
This is through an outfit called FORC which i think is the Federation of
Ohio River Cooperatives and they sell about every health food product you
can imagine and deliver in a huge area that i would think includes you . (
It does, i found a page devoted to U.S. food co-ops
http://www.ncba.org/fwhole.cfm ) So you could get with some friends and
make an order. Also found a great page called "the rise of organic milk"
that describes organic dairys in Ottowa, i crashed before i could get you
the address but enter "organic milk" in a search engine. It was interesting
and i think pertinant to ecofeminism as she was talking about the women and
families on small farms and how now her milk supplier isn't faceless to her
anymore.
In our area there are several very small farmers who milk a cow ( or goat)
or two and sell the unpasturised milk to friends and neighbors. We used to
do this ourcellves. Some excellent goat cheese available around here like
that. I wish more people who eat meat would make deals directly with
farmers. I've come to prefer tempeh mycellf ( i make my own) , but my
teenage sons don't much go in for soy products. We've been buying a half
a steer in the fall from friends. Its much cheaper and also cleaner and
less cruel.
Is there a CSA in your area. That is a great way to have some
input into where your food comes from.
hope this finds you well,
will bason
