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Swedish guidelines on how to reduce food’s footprints

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Photo: Jan-Erik Andersson, Malmö Turism. www.imagebank.sweden.se

A while ago I wrote about the advice on how to eat in a more environmentally conscious way that the Swedish National Food Administration has put together.
Sweden is the first country to make a collection of guidelines like this, and the food administration says it hopes that other countries will follow, since food production stands for a large part of our carbon dioxide emissions. Food production also makes big ecological footprints in other ways, like when rainforest is being cut down to prepare space for livestock and the growing of fodder.
The proposal, “Environmentally effective food choices” has been sent to the European Commission and to the other EU member states and is now translated into English. Read it here!

Sara Jeswani - Sustainability

July 3, 2009

  • Inger

    The blue one is slånbär and the red one rönnbär. According to google that means sloes or blackthorn and rowan berry or mountain ash berry. Both edible. Sloes is more fun to trick others into eating, though. Both should be picked after the first frost. Not picked now and put in the freezer for a while.

  • Monica-USA

    Kate, I am glad to  hear you finally were able to go blackberry picking.  Enjoy  your bounty and good luck with  your mushroom hunting. :o )

  • http://www.transatlanticsketches.com Kate

    Thank you! :D  

  • http://www.transatlanticsketches.com Kate

    Wow! Thanks so much for telling me about the berries! That is really cool about the first frost… now I’m going to have to learn more. Thank you! – Kate

  • http://www.transatlanticsketches.com Kate

    Hi! Thanks so much for reading. My experiences learning about nature will be one of the best things I take away from my life in Sweden. It’s really incredible, and it’s too bad that so many people have fallen out of touch with that part of their lives… I certainly knew very little. 

    Good luck finding your way back! Wishing you the best! Kate

  • Linnea Sternefält

    Hi Kate!Yes, the blue one is ‘Slånbär’, like Inger said. The berrys themselves doesn’t taste good at all; apparently they contain an acid which gives them a very bitter taste. However, when the berries becomes frozen the first time, the acid is transformed and the bitter taste disappears. Now you can make a really nice ‘saft’ out of them. :) It’s not quite as good as ‘flädersaft’, but if you like making your own stuff you should really try it. My mother does both ‘flädersaft’ and ‘slånbärssaft’ every year.

    /Linnea

  • http://twitter.com/OfficeSuppliesC OfficeSuppliesComic

    You’re much braver than I am! When it comes to picking berries and mushrooms, I’m still as paranoid as they come.

    Oops! Posted under my other Twitter acount – Lola

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