Food for the Future

On Monday January 24th over 80 people gathered at Organic bar-restaurant Nectar in Hale to attend Manchester Friends of the Earth's "Food for the Future" event.

	Intended both as a campaign fundraising event and an evening of fun and interest regarding food issues, the audience heard speakers such as Michele Barlow, who talked about the increasing popularity of the Slow Food movement. She then introduced local cheesemaker Anne Connolly and affineur Carol Faulkner who described their work and brought some cheese samples along for the audience to taste.
Brigid Benson then talked about the bid for Altrincham to become a Fair Trade town, and Dave Coleman finished by highlighting the links between "Thinking Global" when looking at our environmental impact, and "Acting Local" in terms of making conscious decisions as to how we live and where we buy our food and drink, and referring people to the Real Food Guide website for more information.
	The audience then enthusiastically tucked into an organic and Fairly Traded gourmet buffet provided by Nectar and many took time out to sign up to food, corporate and other related environmental actions at the campaign stalls or take part in the raffle for organic goodies donated by local ethical investment advisors The Gaeia Partnership, Duchy Originals, Green And Blacks and Doves Farm.

Organiser Dave Coleman commented:

"Running this event has highlighted not just that people in Manchester are really passionate about their food and where it comes from, but just how many people are passionate about the organic movement and keeping our food free of GM contamination."

In fact the event was so popular it was sold out well in advance and many applicants had to be turned away.

Dave added:

"It's revealed a real appetite for these issues, and this event has been so successful we intend running another similar one in the next few months time."

Sounds like you will need to get your orders in early!

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Take Action!

Visit the Real Food Guide website at www.realfoodguide.org.uk to find out more about real food and where to get it in the Manchester area.