Happy Healthy Fairtrade Chocolate Valentine’s Day

February 10th, 2010 by Savvy Veg
Chocolate Cake

We’ve heard about chocolate’s health benefits, but  – only 1 cent from a typical candy bar goes to the farmer. Buying Fairtrade chocolate helps farmers escape poverty Valentine’s Day is indelibly associated with chocolate. The desire for chocolate is even stronger because of all the reporting of chocolate’s remarkable health benefits. But are we being [...]

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Ten Things You Can Do to Fight World Hunger

May 20th, 2009 by Savvy Veg
Feed The World

From the The Nation (This article appears in the June 1, 2009 edition of The Nation) Our planet produces enough food to feed its more than 960 million undernourished people. The basic cause of global hunger is not underproduction; it is a production and distribution system that treats food as a commodity rather than a [...]

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Capitalism, Climate Change, Poverty & Hunger

May 9th, 2009 by Savvy Veg
Global Warming

You’d think that anybody who’s paying attention couldn’t possibly miss what’s going on in the world, but sometimes we can’t see the deforestation for the trees. Yesterday I read three articles which helped me connect the dots: Capitalist greed, leading to planetary destruction and global suffering – pandemics, drought, extreme poverty, starvation, mass migrations, and [...]

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