In this issue:
Keep 'em coming
This week's organic specials
Vegan Awareness Month
Past issues online
Keep 'em coming
We'd like to thank you
for the comments and questions that you email to us each week. The most frequent question that we get from
you is "where can I find organic products from Goodness Greeness in my city or town". In response, our sales
team will guide you to one or more stores in your area.
Also, we loved hearing
about your excitement over last week's featured organic
fruit - Ambrosia apples. One reader wrote:
"Now
those are apples! The taste is far and above what I
have been used to eating. Something tells me these are
what apples are SUPPOSED to taste like."
We encourage you to keep
'em (your comments and questions) coming. We'd also appreciate any feedback
you might have on what you would like to see in upcoming
issues of this
newsletter. Contact us at:
newsletter@goodnessgreeness.com
This
week's specials
We've got some great
organic produce for you this week. Here's a sampler:
Red table
grapes - they're so sweet,
Bosc pears -
with an abundant supply this year, you'll
love the price of these elegant and tasty pears,
Baby roots -
we have a new supply of tender baby beets,
baby carrots and baby turnips. Have you tried these yet?
And, Navel
oranges are here!
You can find these
specials this week at your local market. If you can't
find them, email us at:
newsletter@goodnessgreeness.com
and we'll help you locate
them at a market near you.
Vegan
Awareness Month
November is Vegan
Awareness Month (and October was Vegetarian Awareness
Month). In honor of these awareness campaigns and in
honor of our vegetarian and vegan readers, let's talk about
this movement.
Vegetarians do not eat
meat, fish or poultry. For some, this is a dietary
choice, often health related. For some, it is more, a
belief system and a way of life that promotes caring about
how animals are treated. And for others, it has a
spiritual meaning.
There are several
sub-groups in the vegetarian movement. The largest
group is "lacto-ovo" vegetarians, who's diet includes eggs
and dairy products. Another group is vegans, who do
not eat any animal products and who often do not use animal
products in their lifestyle. A third and smaller group
is live-food adherents, who do not eat cooked food, only
"live" fruits and vegetables.
From a dietary
perspective, vegan and vegetarian awareness campaigns are
designed to educate all of us about the issues associated
with the current American diet. The issues boil down
to this - it is an inherently unhealthy diet that spawns
obesity and a variety of serious diseases.
These awareness campaigns
promote the increased use of fruits and vegetables in our
diet and a corresponding decrease (and elimination) of
animal products in our diet. These campaigns also
serve to educate us about the health factors involved in
these dietary choices.
The bottom line of these
awareness campaigns is that, no matter what we choose to eat
or to feed our children, we all have to realize the
implications of our choices and have the responsibility to
deal with the results of our choices.
Vegans and vegetarians
are helping all of us get this message and we thank them for
this invaluable service.
For more information on
the vegetarian and vegan movements, including a huge choice of
vegetarian and vegan recipes, check out these sites:
www.vegan.org
www.almostvegan.com
The Vegetarian Resource Group
Past
issues online
As you know if you've
been reading this weekly newsletter each week, there is a
lot of information provided on organic fruits and vegetables, their
nutritional qualities, availability, shopping and
preparation tips, as well as some recipes.
You can now access most of
the past issues of Organics for you on our web site (www.goodnessgreeness.com).
Click on the Newsletter link at the top of any page on the
site. There you'll find a quick index to most of the past
issues.
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