Comment in response to Gordon Ramsay on seasonal food
9 May 2008
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has said that restaurants should be fined if they serve fruit and vegetables which are not in season.[1]
Dr Tom MacMillan, Executive Director of the Food Ethics Council, comments:[2]
“Eating with the seasons can cut our carbon footprint and many people find it a real pleasure. It’s great to see Gordon Ramsay championing this - restaurants and supermarkets helped get us into this fix, where it is hard to eat seasonally, and they need to lead us out of it again."
"More effective than a ban would be to have a strong, positive government-backed campaign, a clampdown on misleading ‘seasonal’ marketing [3] and policies that mean we meet the high environmental costs of producing food out of season.”
Notes:
1. See 'Ramsay orders seasonal only menu'.
2. The Food Ethics Council is the independent advisory body on the ethics of food and farming. A report of a meeting about seasonality with food industry executives is available here.
3. For examples see the 'Ethical hijack' report by Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming.
ENDS
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has said that restaurants should be fined if they serve fruit and vegetables which are not in season.[1]
Dr Tom MacMillan, Executive Director of the Food Ethics Council, comments:[2]
“Eating with the seasons can cut our carbon footprint and many people find it a real pleasure. It’s great to see Gordon Ramsay championing this - restaurants and supermarkets helped get us into this fix, where it is hard to eat seasonally, and they need to lead us out of it again."
"More effective than a ban would be to have a strong, positive government-backed campaign, a clampdown on misleading ‘seasonal’ marketing [3] and policies that mean we meet the high environmental costs of producing food out of season.”
Notes:
1. See 'Ramsay orders seasonal only menu'.
2. The Food Ethics Council is the independent advisory body on the ethics of food and farming. A report of a meeting about seasonality with food industry executives is available here.
3. For examples see the 'Ethical hijack' report by Sustain, the alliance for better food and farming.
ENDS
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