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Have yourself an ethical Christmas
With the average Christmas dinner reportedly clocking up the equivalent of two journeys around the world in food miles, staging an ethical Christmas is no easy task
All that giving and receiving can end in one big day of over-indulgence and waste.
While it's tempting to head to the local supermarket to load up on everything we need for Christmas dinner (and the rest), there are some simple ways to tick as many organic, sustainable and ethical boxes as possible. Your head may not be clear post-party, but your conscience will be.
Food
The piece de resistance of any Christmas dinner is the meat. Whether you're going for turkey, ham, or a more upmarket duck, goose or pheasant, the golden rule is simple: don't buy your intensively-reared meat from the supermarket.
It may be more expensive, but top-quality, ethically-produced meat is a wise investment. Shuffle your budget and resist temptation to overspend on other products. Think about all the uneaten food you bin every year, not to mention all the unnecessary calories you consume.
The Ginger Pig butcher in London have become one of the most respected organic meat producers in Britain, rearing rare breeds of pig, cattle and sheep on the Yorkshire Moors.
Avoid jet-lagged fruit and vegetables that have circumnavigated the earth in a state of suspended ripening. Buy your vegetables from a local farmer's market and buy loose, local produce free from plastic packaging, often at a fraction of the price.
Sign up to award-winning organic home delivery service Abel and Cole and you'll have fresh, organic and seasonal vegetables, and other ethical products, delivered to your door. Their organic Christmas range includes all the trimmings, from meat to mince pies and brandy butter.
Smoked salmon and Champagne is quintessentially Christmas, but choose your salmon carefully. Bleiker's Smokehouse is a family-run business based in the Yorkshire Dales. They pride themselves on traditionally curing and smoking organic Scottish salmon, free from colourings, additives or preservatives, with an organic range also available.
After dinner, sweeten your guests with some Burnt Sugar fudge, made with Fair Trade sugar from West Kenya.
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