Jamie Oliver is on a mission.

He has a great campaign at the moment promoting better school diners, Feed Me Better.

What we eat affects everything. Mood, behaviour, health, growth, even our ability to concentrate. A lunchtime school meal should provide a growing child with one third of their daily nutritional intake. But the processed junk foods served in most school dining halls these days don’t.

Read more on the website www.feedmebetter.com.

If you are a meat eating vegan like me, then you might want to check out The Meatrix which gives a very light, but informative, introduction into the horrors of factory farms and where the meat on you plate often comes from. There is plenty of information, and advice on action, on the site.

This is not a bunch of tree hugging hippy crap (like that’s necessarily a bad idea anyway), it’s common sense. It’s about not crapping your own back yard. It’s about making sure the stuff you put into your body is good for your body, and the way it is produced has a minimum negative impact on the environment and maximum positive impact.

It’s about taking personal responsibility, and probably learning something really good into the bargain.

Get positive!

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