In the workshops came quite often the question of responsabilities…
Please take the test
Here is how to read your result :
4 or 5 good answers: Congratulations! You’re a catastrophe for your wallet.
The inflation of the food prices is a reality, but don’t let your own habits ake it even worse…
Maybe you should reflect about how to consume in a healthier way, and take more time to choose your diet.
3 or 2 good answers: It seems that you still can make better to save money consuming food. You may need more time to go shopping, but don’t forget how essential it is to eat well, and not only for your health or for environmental reasons. Also because it can help you saving money.
1 or 0 good answers: Too bad… You have nothing to learn about how to buy food reasonably. So, who is really to blame ? Read what follows to explore some more leads :
You don’t agree at all with the results of this test, let us know what you really think !
“To eat or not to eat: that is the question (of ethics)
We always want to find someone to blame for our problems. When we asked Philip Mikos, an agro-economist, who was to blame for the inflation in food prices over the recent years, he answered very spontaneously “Georges Bush!”. Of course, that made us laugh. But the fact is that the Europeans (and probably the most part of the world) want to find who is really to blame.
But shouldn’t we call into question our own responsibility? Don’t the prices increase also because of our behaviour towards food shopping? Indeed, as Marco Zatterin, a journalist, explains it, the prices increase because we do not know how to stop ourselves, we always want more than we can afford. Thus, Marco Zatterin talks about “greed and fear”. We are greedy to get much more than we already have and we are scared of not managing to get it anymore…
Many people accuse Euro of causing the inflation. We cannot deny that this new currency is one of the causes: in France for instance, the price of the “baguette” jumped from 3 Francs (0,45€) to 0,70€ in 2001 and 0,80€ in 2008 and this is only an example! But it is too easy to stop here.
The point is that many people do not behave ethically – and sometimes without even realizing what the matter is. I’m sometimes one of them! Indeed, when I eat a mango in October just because I love it, buy some tomatoes whereas it is not the season anymore but I really want to do a ratatouille, or cook rice for dinner and then realize that my two other housemates cook rice for their meal as well (in two separate pots, of course!). With a bit of organisation, self-restriction and effort, I should manage not to do this kind of things anymore.
The financial crisis of these weeks may derive from such behaviours. Even if the governments do not learn any lessons, I hope that we do.”
