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I am a little weary of being told that my green efforts will not make any difference, that one person's actions can't have an effect. That my decision to support fair trade, organic food and to give up my car would be pointless.
I just don't believe that. One person's actions are important to them, and they may just provide an example for others to follow.
After all, and this is an obvious and cliched example, it was just one woman, Rosa Parks, whose act sparked a boycott of the bus system by black people that lasted more than a year. The boycott raised an unknown clergyman named Martin Luther King, Jr., to national prominence and resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city buses. Over the next four decades, she helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle.
My point is, I started refusing to buy caged eggs years ago, and now it seems that finally they are on the way out.
The report Iin The Times) highlighted the growth in the organic and free-range egg sector, now outselling eggs produced by caged birds. The Soil Association claimed that public concerns with battery hen welfare had driven the shift.
I just don't believe that. One person's actions are important to them, and they may just provide an example for others to follow.
After all, and this is an obvious and cliched example, it was just one woman, Rosa Parks, whose act sparked a boycott of the bus system by black people that lasted more than a year. The boycott raised an unknown clergyman named Martin Luther King, Jr., to national prominence and resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city buses. Over the next four decades, she helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle.
My point is, I started refusing to buy caged eggs years ago, and now it seems that finally they are on the way out.
The report Iin The Times) highlighted the growth in the organic and free-range egg sector, now outselling eggs produced by caged birds. The Soil Association claimed that public concerns with battery hen welfare had driven the shift.
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