Eat less meat. From the point of view of our body’s health, meat should be a supplement to, not the basis of, our diet.
Eating less gives you the opportunity to seek out organic or specialist butchers with more interesting meat. That has the added benefit of promoting better meat production.
Use meat better. What about the bones? Collect them, throw them in a pot, cov-er with cold water and simmer for two hours. You have produced a fantastic base for all types of soups.
Eat different meat. Check the range of offal and unusual cuts at your local butcher. Check out butchers who specialise in Australian and game meats — kangaroo, rabbit, hare, duck and venison. Try kosher and halal butchers. You can find camel, goat and donkey as well as your Aussie standards. Vegan hamburgers, synthetically grown in laboratory conditions, are now available.
Geoff Ebbs is the author of the best-selling Australian Internet Book and a long term environmental activist. He has written, edited and published a wide range of business and environmental books and participated in community radio and publishing.
His radio show and online news site, TheGenerator.news has been operating since 2005. A regular speaker and facilitator at Engineering conferences and workshops Geoff has built on his background in information technology, media and environmental engineering.to nurture the transition to a post-carbon economy.
Geoff continues to drive deep adaptation and regenerative sustainability as the primary agenda for both commercial and community organisations and is currently researching business approaches to those issues at the Griffith Centre for Sustainable Enterprise. The organisation he founded in 2005, Ebono Institute, continues to support community and social enterprise media and his consultancy, Great Notion, provides facilitation and strategic planning services to social enterprise and environmental organisations.
