{"id":107,"date":"2020-03-06T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/?p=107"},"modified":"2021-05-26T01:04:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T01:04:01","slug":"eat-politically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"Eat Politically"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"188\" src=\"http:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Milk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-108\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about my power as a consumer. In the lack of any useful government legislation, the most power I have is my middle class salary and my purchasing power. What if even 20% of the market pulled out of corporate economy as much as we have? I&#8217;m not sure the system could stand it. I think it would have to change. Granted.. I&#8217;m not an economist &#8211; if anyone is and wants to comment I&#8217;d love to hear from you. I started out making food choices to limit my plastic consumption. The fringe benefit has been that we are eating a lot more whole and healthy food. And, lately, now that the infrastructure is built and habits formed and bulk food purchased, we&#8217;re also saving money on our food bill. That means I have more money to eat politically (and go on more trips, we can talk about carbon foot print and planes another time, pick your battles I say). Here are some things that we&#8217;ve changed:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>-buy local and sustainable eggs and meat<br>-organic, waste free milk (yaaaa! <a href=\"https:\/\/limestonecreamery.ca\/\">Limestone Creamery<\/a>)<br>-buy in bulk from local distributors where possible<br>-make it as much as we can ourselves at home<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of these choices cost more in the short-term. Overall, and in the long run we actually save money. And in the loooooonnnng run (my grand kids long) it is going to cost much, much less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One small change at a time, making new habits slowly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about my power as a consumer. In the lack of any useful government legislation, the most power I have is my middle class salary and my purchasing power. What if even 20% of the market pulled out of corporate economy as much as we have? I&#8217;m not sure the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[37,35,36,34,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliahale.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}