Is your coffee "fairly traded"? Do you eat range-free eggs?
It seems that today's picky eaters come not just from those who are watching calories, and their waistline, but origins of certain foods--where it came from, are the farmers paid fairly? Today's college students are setting the trend.
“It’s changed totally from ‘You want chicken or fish?’ to a partnership between the chef, the nutritionist and the student,” says Jeff Gourley, executive chef at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, N.J.
Read the entire article from the New York Times.
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Jenn's willing to pay a high premium for both organic food and for free-range eggs and meat (the meat's for me). ... I'm willing to pay a little more, but I've seen her pay double price for milk. I just look the other way and try to convince myself it's worth it for the ethical reasons. But it's an interesting conflict, since I was raised to conscious of being thrifty and all.
Yeah, sometimes thrifty in this case doesn't mesh with ethics. ...
I tried to find free-range beer, but couldn't.
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