INBOX
Something you read in MiNDFOOD got you thinking? We’d love to hear your thoughts, suggestions and views. You can email us at inboxnz@mindfood.com
CAN WE LOSE THE PLASTIC?
I am just reading your wonderful magazine’s March 2020 edition and upon ripping open the plastic bag it comes in I realised that in this day and age of plastic waste awareness, is there any chance this amazing magazine can arrive in paper packaging instead? Maybe something for your team to investigate and find a more environmentally friendly packaging material. Cheers and keep up the great work!
Joanne
Response from the editor-in-chief:
Thanks for your email and for supporting MiNDFOOD. We are always striving to be more environmentally friendly; this is something we are investigating and hopefully will have a solution soon for our subscription copies. Lots of the options we have been presented with actually cause more problems for landfill long-term, so it’s a long process trying to find the right solution. But we are chasing what hopefully will be a new solution moving forward. Thanks for reaching out.
NAOMI’S AN INSPIRATION
Thank you Naomi Lambert for your beautiful story (‘Why It’s Cool To Be Kind’, March issue). What a wonderful woman you are, turning your heartbreak and grief into something that benefits the world. You are a true inspiration.
Joan SAY NO TO ANIMAL CRUELTY
Indonesia has lost my tourism dollar. One million dogs butchered for human consumption (‘A Taste For Cruelty’, March issue)! I can’t support a country that allows such cruelty.
Richard CHILDREN ARE A GIFT
‘The Hidden Form Of Abuse’ article (March issue) was an interesting, true and very sad article. It is so hard when we live in an era when everything is at our fingertips, technology has all the answers, but the fraility of human life is sometimes overlooked. Nuture = good consequences. Lack of nuture = problems. Children are a precious gift and should be treated as such. It is necessary to have your eyes wide open and write down and report any abuse you see or hear, especially if it becomes more frequent. A child is a gift, growing up is a process and each child has the right to a loving upbringing.
Marilyn LIVING WITH THE PAIN
From the outside I look like I’m living a ‘normal’ life, smiling with friends, going to work, doing the food shopping, looking after the kids and getting on with things. But every moment I’m aware of a shooting pain that feels like someone is hammering my spine. After countless operations and injections I’ve been told this pain is something I will probably have to ‘live with’. It’s disheartening when people assume I’m ‘better’ because I’m not complaining, but like the women in your story (‘Living With Chronic Pain’, March issue), I’ve just learnt to live with it.
Christa TRAGEDY OF CHILD MARRIAGE
It’s amazing that child marriage still exists in parts of the world; that poverty is so awful that arranging the marriage of your 13-year-old daughter is your only option (‘When Poverty Outweighs Love’, March issue). The statistic that in South Sudan teenage girls are three times more likely to die in childbirth than they are to finish high school is horrific and sobering.
Thank you MiNDFOOD for shining a light on this issue, when so much of media these days is about reality stars and their plastic surgery! No more fake news for me or time spent on gossip websites.
Faith