Your Choice Their Voice - The Animal Lover's Guide to Ethical Shopping (Food and Drink)

By Donna Robson

Welcome Animal Lovers!

This book is the first in an empowering series that gives you the facts you need to make easy life-style choices impacting the lives of animals all over the world. It is a non-judgemental book of information and tips for anyone who wants to make a difference - big or small.

How are our food and drink choices important to the safety and welfare of animals?
The food and drink that is so readily available to us in supermarkets is often there at a cost to the environment and to animals. Feeding an expanding world population becomes more challenging in a changing climate where food and water resources are dwindling.
A trip to the local supermarket, restaurant or market can present a myriad of choices for those of us who wish to shop ethically. Origins of food, fair trade, preservatives, palm oil, packaging, factory farming - all of these have an impact on animals world-wide.

Subsequently the choices are endless and often overwhelming. Free-range, vegetarian, dairy-free, palm-oil free, locally produced, GMOs. The truth is you can’t tick every box, but you can make product selections that will benefit your family, animals and the environment we all live in. And by choosing food that has less packaging and has been produced and transported in a sustainable way, together we can reduce the size of our ecological footprint and help to save animals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Donna Robson
• Release date: Jan 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370392490

Donna Robson

Donna Robson is a veterinary sales and marketing administrator and is a passionate animal welfare and environmental campaigner. Donna lives in Perth, Western Australia with her adopted cattle dog Ollie and her cat Tasha.

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Your Choice Their Voice

The Animal Lover’s Guide to Ethical Shopping

Food and Drink

Copyright 2018 Donna Robson

Published by Donna Robson at Smashwords

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Table of Contents

A message from the Author

CHAPTER 1 THE POWER OF YOUR PURCHASE

CHAPTER 2 FRUIT & VEGETABLES - Getting to the root of the problem

CHAPTER 3 THE DAIRY DILEMMA - Milk without Guilt

CHAPTER 4 MEAT ME HALFWAY - Do I really have to give up steak?

CHAPTER 5 FREE AS A BIRD - The Truth about Eggs

CHAPTER 6 FISHING FOR THE FUTURE - Keeping it Reel

CHAPTER 7 PALM OIL - It’s Not Vegetable Oil

CHAPTER 8 BAKED GOODS - The Proof is in the Pudding

CHAPTER 9 FAST FOOD FACTS - Good to Go?

CHAPTER 10 PACKAGING - The Cost of Convenience

CHAPTER 11 HIDDEN EXTRAS - The Truth Behind the Label

Tools and Resources

Recipes

A Message from the Author

Welcome animal lovers!

Thank you for purchasing this book. This book is the first in an empowering series that gives you the facts you need to make easy life-style choices impacting the lives of animals all over the world. It is a non-judgemental book of information and tips for anyone who wants to make a difference - big or small.

How are our food and drink choices important to the safety and welfare of animals?

The food and drink that is so readily available to us in supermarkets is often there at a cost to the environment and to animals. Feeding an expanding world population becomes more challenging in a changing climate where food and water resources are dwindling.

A trip to the local supermarket, restaurant or market can present a myriad of choices for those of us who wish to shop ethically. Origins of food, fair trade, preservatives, palm oil, packaging, factory farming - all of these have an impact on animals world-wide.

Subsequently the choices are endless and often overwhelming. Free-range, vegetarian, dairy-free, palm-oil free, locally produced, GMOs. The truth is you can’t tick every box, but you can make product selections that will benefit your family, animals and the environment we all live in. And by choosing food that has less packaging and has been produced and transported in a sustainable way, together we can reduce the size of our ecological footprint and help to save animals.

Having worked with not-for-profits and within the veterinary industry for many years, my experience has been that people generally want to do the right thing by animals. My wish is to help people wade through the minefield of conflicting information relating to the standards of animal welfare for the products and