By: Manar Ammar
CAIRO: International animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) distributed chili peppers to Egyptian passersby on Sunday in Cairo in an effort to promote vegetarianism in the country.
Egyptian and foreign PETA and animal rights activists promoted the message “spice up your life: go vegetarian” by having a two-meter high pile of red and green chilies and handed out flyers explaining the benefits of vegetarianism. The noon demonstration grabbed Egyptians’ attention despite the mounting heat, and people rushed to collect the chilies afterwards. The demonstration saw …

By: Daria Mahgoub
1- The pound you spend supports the source you buy from:
If you are buying from an organic, local, sustainable farm, you’re supporting a practice that is both safe for you and the environment.
2- Less chemicals:
Fertilizers and synthetic pesticides are not used to grow/harvest organic food,  therefore you’re less likely to ingest the persistent chemicals residues (e.g. DDT, dioxin, PCBs) that concentrate in your fat tissues.Organic agriculture and livestock focus on keeping the soil healthy and fertile by using methods such as crop rotation. Additionally,  the animals aren’t fed …

By: Daria Mahgoub

When I asked my mom to start buying organic, she didn’t need an explanation. She had read and heard about what agriculture is like nowadays from the abundant amount of scandals in the news papers. My dad – the kind that rubs a tangerine a little and dives in before he’s made the walk from the vendor to the car, was mockingly amused at the lengths we have to go now before biting a fruit.
Apparently, a long time ago, trusting the integrity of our food was second-nature; …

By: Daria Mahgoub

Luckily, the Environmental Working Group has disclosed some great news!

You can pick and choose which items you buy organic to save some money and make sure you’re not involuntarily poisoning your self and family. This is because some items generally require fewer pesticides to grow, while others can be well off after washing.
When buying fresh veggies and fruit, you want to buy the following items from organic farms:
Apples, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, kale, peaches, carrots, pears, grapes, lettuce and bell peppers.
This is because they have a …

By: Maha Khalil
You stand with a plate in your hands over the garbage bin about to throw away scraps of leftover food from your kids’ meal or some vegetable peals, and you think, this isn’t right, this is so not right. You often feel guilty throwing away so much food and knowing that there are people out there who would kill to have those scraps. But knowing there is nothing you can do about it, you hesitate for a moment……  you end up doing the expected, you throw away your leftovers anyway.
But …