Health Food Meet Conservation At These Stores

Health food meet conservation at these stores.

- Weets Goh

What started out loosely as a metal straw proselytising, cloth bag-carrying minority has grown into a massive movement to live an ecologically sound life. You really know it’s no longer a niche topic when the Prime Minister makes a special mention about climate change in the National Day Rally message.

In this green quest, food can play a huge part in making a change – according to 2014 data from Climate Watch, agriculture alone is responsible for roughly 10 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. And around the world, consumers are acknowledging the problem by turning to lab-grown meat. There are many other ways to vote with your wallet, as the sprout of eco-conscious food retailers here hope to prove.

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There’s a wave of bulk food stores opening. The idea’s simple: The stores stock their products in loose form, and customers bring their own containers to load up, paying by weight. This minimises packaging and single-use plastics, while creating a situation where customers can buy only as much as they need so wastage is also reduced.