Monday, June 23, 2008 at 12:08PM Monday
23Jun
The Fife Diet
by Ally
Ally Have you heard about the latest diet craze to sweep the nation? It's called the Fife Diet and no, it isn't about pizza suppers, and Irn-Bru - who would think such a thing?
There's a meeting at the wrong end of Leith Walk about it this Thursday, at the quaker Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace. The originator of the Fife Diet, Mike Small, will give the curious an insight into what he's been eating and why. Here's how he describes it:
"We’ve had whole foods and slow food, fast food and organics. We’ve had road-food, and freeganism, Masterchefs and Naked Chefs, the F Word and the Atkins, Meals on Wheels and Free School Meals. The difference about the Fife Diet is, it’s not actually about you any more.
"Acting under the motto ‘Think Global, Eat Local’ the Fife Diet aims toreduce not your waist line but your carbon footprint, by eating only food from Fife for a year. "
Did you know that 95% of the fruit and half of the vegetables in the UK are imported? The amount of food being flown into the UK doubled in the1990s and is predicted to rise further each year. As we know, air freighthas a far bigger impact on the environment than sea or road travel has.
Another reason for mounting food miles is comparative labour costs. Forexample, some British fish is now sent to China (where labour costs aremuch lower) for processing, then sent back to the UK to be sold. This is crazy. "Come and hear about bioregionalist solutions to restoring and repairing our ruptured food culture."
The talk is hosted by Friends of the Earth Scotland, and starts at 7.30pm.
Monday, June 23, 2008 at 12:08PM 
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