How to eat local in Hong Kong

It?s a weekend afternoon and for once you?ve decided to eat at home. So you wander down to the nearest supermarket to pick up a chicken fillet, some broccoli and a few oranges for dessert. It?s a simple recipe for a home-cooked meal. Except there are a lot of hidden problems.

The chicken? It?s from a factory farm in Brazil, where it?s pumped full of hormones to keep it fat and complacent. The broccoli? Grown in China where it was sprayed with pesticides. The oranges? They?re from Florida, and because they were picked too early so they could be shipped around the world, they?re dry and sour when you cut them open.

There?s a solution to all of these problems: eat local. read more

Sarah Wynter Scarlett Chorvat Scarlett Johansson Selita Ebanks Shakara Ledard Shakira