The car industry, brands & food retailers conspire to keep us driving, though it's bad for the environment, our waistline & our wallet.
This UK tv series illustrates how most of us buy far more than we need & waste time, money & food...
@EatWellForLess
bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05…
It inevitably turns out we're seduced by packaging & dishonest, spurious offers & relentless primetime high-cost brand advertising, & 'forced' to take the car so we can carry it all home.
Where our cupboards & fridges are already full to bursting with last week's splurge...
Despite claiming to make 'only one' main shop a week, it turns out most of us make many extra weekly top-up trips. Our already burgeoning diet is further supplemented with convenience snacks, school meals, junk food deliveries & eating out at pubs & restaurants...
The outcome of this avalanche of food is that we buy far more than we can reasonably - or healthily - consume.
As a result anything fresh - eg, fruit & veg, of which there's shockingly little compared with packaged, highly-processed food - frequently rots & is binned...
Another negative outcome of constantly shifting large amounts of food around is the increased burden of traffic on local roads. Even small towns contain clusters of vast retail sheds surrounded by massive parking craters that can take an hour or more to negotiate by car...
This hugely wasteful cycle has been normalised to the extent we even take our bored kids, feeding their acquisitive urges, boosting pester power, ingraining wasteful habits & likely damaging their health through enforced inactivity...
...not to mention poisoning them through in-car air pollution & the crap we feed them, as well as damaging their mental health by constantly moaning about the traffic we're contributing to...
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Food giants are slowly waking up to the enormous damage their business practices are wreaking on the environment, but they aren't so hot on the more direct damage they're doing to the people & communities around them.
They need to wise up fast to #PedalPower.
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