But it's that attitude that has people buy peeled and cut banana slices sitting on a foam tray covered in cling wrap. I may not be able to stop companies from making foam trays and cling wrap, but they won't be making these article for me - at least not, so I can get cut-up banana slices.
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That's also why I get a little bitchy when I'm told to cut back on necessities but are expected to turn blind eye to little things that have a huge impact, too, even though we can't or refuse to see it immediately because it's just one paper cup, one foam tray, one artificial flower, one...
I'm far from perfect myself in this regard, but I'm not trying to be a hypocrite about it. Which is what annoys me in so many of our politicians.
@Leila We have the same problem concerning the quantity issue. I have heard somewhere that it is an underlying problem that compounds the effect that people in some areas are eating more meat than before.
At the same time, we heavily finance the meat industry by means of subsidies. I read somewhere that the Dutch pay 350 euros per per person each year to make meat affordable, whereas 'fake' meat or plant based dairy doesn't get the same financial backing. Now the EU is even campaigning to buy real European meat...How on earth?
Great to hear that you can get by with your own garden. Maybe you can even trade your own vegetables/fruit with those of your neighbours? I've heard that local bartering is quite a trend in some rural places.
Haha, sliced bananas to go. That does sound silly. Capitalism has it comforts but this is something you'd see in a dystopian film like Idiocracy
It's hard to find a politician who is not a hypocrite. Someone with a Jacinda Ardern or Bernie Sanders quality is hard to find. And someone like her or him is desperately needed to lead by example when it comes to climate change, meat consumption and more of that ilk.
My parents were the ones with the garden 
But since my mum died dad has turned their vegetable garden into a flower garden because, while he's good at growing things, he has no idea what to do with the harvested products.
But since my mum died dad has turned their vegetable garden into a flower garden because, while he's good at growing things, he has no idea what to do with the harvested products.
He still has his tomatoes and cucumbers and stuff that can be eaten raw and I benefit from that. He's also got fruit trees which is a blessing and a curse. The fruits are great but the fact that he thinks at his age he should still do the fruit picking, well, not so much
I like my homemade foods. It is a bit of work and the first couple of ties weren't really presentable but I've gotten better and it makes me happy to know exactly what I put into my bread, jam, stew, whatever...
Maybe I'm old-fashioned like this, but personally I feel that we ought to teach our children these kinds of skills once again. Many of the young adults I used to work with were in dept of had money problems.If asked what the problem was, they often couldn't tell.
And if you dug a little deeper one of the reasons was that most of them couldn't cook and relied on fast food or readily made food, and another reason was that they's shop at the petrol station because it was closer than the supermarket.
We teach our kids many things but fail to see that many parents aren't around a lit anymore to outfit them with the very basics. It's good and well to have academic knowledge but you also need to be "überlebensfähig".
I'm sorry to hear about your mom. It's a good thing you help your father with tending the garden.
I can imagine it's a tough nut to crack of teaching children how to be more in tune with nature. Maybe you can tell me if scouting clubs are a thing in Germany but I can say straightaway that it's not a big deal here in the Netherlands. On the other hand, I've seen at close hand that it's very popular in Belgium & France
It's a shame that people nowadays, especially the young, have trouble making ends meet or are strongly reliant on junk food.
I remember that my mom once told me that children had the opportunity to follow a course in home economics in high school in the '70s and '80s. It was not mandatory but it was quite a useful subject because you were taught to cook healthy meals and you had to learn how to use money wisely (concerning taxes, rent, food budget, etc.).
But somehow the course has been omitted from the high school curriculum (similar to Realschule/Gymnasium level) and now it's only taught in vocational schools
So I'm trying to relearn what still came naturally to my mother. And it sometimes makes me feel a little silly, because everything is available freely and in huge quantities.