Cheap Weekly Organic Food Sale Launches In The Hive

The People and Planet society have launched a weekly ‘Food Co-op’ which allows students to buy cheaper organic and ethically sourced foods.

The green society manned a busy stall from 3-5pm in the Hive yesterday for the first time.

A happy customer checking out the baked beans…

UEA People and Planet, who you may have seen washing the windows of the campus Natwest branch in a quirky green protest last semester, will repeat the dry food sale every Wednesday.

Products on sale included dried fruit and nuts, grains and pulses and tinned tomatoes. The Co-op is a not for profit initiative and all foods are bought directly from the Suma, a wholesaler.

Ben Brown, the Union’s Environment Officer told the Tab that the prices being charged are much cheaper than supermarket equivalents.

He said: “We did a price comparison on the tinned tomatoes, our organic ones are 60p, whilst a Tesco organic tin is 79p and even a simple own brand one is more expensive at 68p.”

A poster from the society’s quirky online ad campaign.

People and Planet is a student campaign group with societies at Universities nationwide. The Food Co-op movement, known as ‘Scoop’, has also been set up at the Universities of Kent, Strathclyde, Durham, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Oxford Brookes University.

To find out more about the cause have a look at the national ‘People and Planet’ website:

http://peopleandplanet.org/

Or check out the group’s Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/ueapeopleandplanet