It's important to check with the store manager exactly what's in the food they are selling you. Not all GM foods or ingredients are labelled. Unless they're labelled as organic, dairy products and meat may also be produced from animals fed with GM crops. Further information on genetically modified food 2 Buy fair trade products Fair trade means paying the producers a decent price and not destroying their environment. Buying fairly traded products, such as coffee, puts money back into local communities to give everyone a better standard of life.
Fair trade allows real, lasting change and transforms people's lives.
3 Shop locally, buy direct Liberate yourself from the weekly supermarket trawl and sample your local shops and local produce. This can help guarantee the survival of local specialities like Scottish shortbread, Cornish clotted cream, Derbyshire oatcakes or Whitby kippers. In general the shorter the distance your food has travelled from farm gate to your plate, the less pollution and wasteful packaging it involves. Buying food direct from UK farmers and producers gives you fresh, seasonal produce and gives farmers a better financial return. It's just like a street market except it is farmers selling their produce direct to consumers.