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Why it is a good practice?
Camile Thai is innovating the fast-food world by demonstrating that take-away or delivery of ‘fast-food’ can also be healthy food and can be produced in a sustainable and ethical manner. The restaurant chain through its development strategy has supported its franchisees every step of the way to deliver a quality and consistent product. No matter in what location, they are all aligned with the same principles of locally sourced produce, hand-made aromatic sauces and made-to-order dishes of ‘good mood Thai food’. Through digitalization, they are going that one step further and promoting health, through the use of their App. Here, they provide calorie and macronutrient counts, which are lab tested and certified by Nutritionists. Their website is very much health and nutrition-focused.

About
Camile Thai was established in 2010, opening its first restaurant in Dublin, Ireland. It was small beginnings, but through franchising, the company has expanded to other parts of Ireland. They now have ~30 outlets in the country, as well as restaurants in the UK. Camile Thai has grown to be a well-known and trusted brand in Ireland. Camile Thai have innovated and come up with new ways to grow their business and in the process to break the mold of the ‘traditional takeaway’ by delivering local, healthy and fresh, restaurant-quality Thai food straight to your door. They have a recipe for success and have won the best Thai restaurant in Ireland for several years running.

Sustainability
Environmental and sustainable development has become at the heart of everything Camile Thai is working on. Camile was the first restaurant chain in Ireland, and among the first in Europe, to introduce compostable delivery packaging across its stores. They use the most sophisticated recycling program available to restaurants, as well as water-regulating woks and on average have <1% food waste weekly. They believe in keeping their environmental impact as low as possible. Camille Thai uses locally grown, grass-fed Irish beef and pork, as well as locally grown vegetables and herbs when in season.
Recently, they also added Carbon Counting to their menus, allowing the consumer to make conscious decisions. The also have a wide range of vegan dishes which have 51% fewer emissions on average.

Healthy
With all the menus, the Camile Thai approach is simple. Their expert Thai chefs create restaurant-quality Thai food using fresh, natural ingredients. No grease, no guilt, just delicious, healthy food. Camile is committed to the idea that fast food doesn’t have to mean unhealthy food. Their menus are certified by a nutritionist, and they cater to all diets. Everything on the menu is calorie counted, including macros, so the customer can track exactly what they are eating. At Camile they try to bridge the gap between treat days and tracking days, catering to vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, and omnivore diets. and they are even on MyFitnessPal. They also run free yoga classes across Dublin and give healthy cookery demos.

Ethical
Camile Thai believe in positive change as they grow, and they know how important it is to be both ethical and to reflect guests’ dietary choices. They recently created a Vegan menu, which is cooked using separate, meat-free woks, oil and utensils, which are only ever used for preparing Vegan dishes. They aim for zero food waste and are trialing ‘cleaner’ delivery methods via Drone delivery. They also put a delivery radius from each outlet to minimise the carbon footprint of the food.

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BiaSol is a family-owned food start-up driven by the need for more sustainable, nutritious foods. They care about our environment and the people who live in it and strive to make highly nutritious, zero-waste food products that are easily accessible in Ireland. They are fighting back against typical processed foods and their low nutritional value. They have been repurposing spent brewers’ grains, to make ‘a delectably malty hero ingredient’. Every BiaSol product is designed to help one make better food choices in the simplest way possible. Not only are their products good for you but they also taste great. BiaSol is committed to building a zero-waste world via innovative solutions to food waste that also support local businesses.​

About ​

Bia Sol was established in 2020, by sister and brother team Niamh & Ruairi when they realised that repurposing food waste was a viable way to be more sustainable AND create healthy food products. The rapid growth of craft brewing across Ireland led them to their first ingredient: brewers’ spent grains.​

A lot has changed since they began their journey. For one, they’ve refined their product range and invested in bigger premises and more resources to grow the business. There is one thing that will never change – their commitment to simple, nutritious products that are good for you and good for our planet. In the future, they plan to release many more healthy food products that focus on minimising waste while also providing nutritional value.​

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Ethical ​

BiaSol believe in positive change as they grow, and they know how important it is to be both ethical and have an impact. They are slowly attempting to create a better way of producing food and creating awareness. They aim for zero food waste not just in their business but are creating a stop food waste community and are supported by a bunch of fantastic Irish Independently owned craft breweries whom all share the same vision – how can we reduce waste and build circular food systems?​

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Sustainable​

Environmental and sustainable development is at the heart of everything BiaSol is working on. Their entire business is built on creating a circular economy. They remove waste (spent brewers’ grains) from several brewing companies and give the ‘waste’ product an extended life by repurposing the grains into nutritious food ingredients. It can’t get much better than that.​

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Healthy ​

Niamh with her background in nutrition and food science has been spreading the word about the health benefits of their products. Approx 75% of Irish adults don’t meet the RDA of fibre and now their product is helping to put more fibre in everyone’s diets. It’s super important, so Niamh and the team have been putting together some useful insights into why Fibre matters and this can be found on their website. For every tablespoon of BiaSol Super Milled Grains, you’ll get 10% of your recommended daily allowance (RDA) of fibre.​

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Last year during the Asia-Pacific Agri-Food Innovation Summit, nine exciting Asia-based startups pitched their sustainable technologies aimed at building up our food system’s resilience to crises in the post-pandemic world.

Without further ado, below is a round-up of the startups hailing from all over Asia who are slated to pitch at the Summit next month and the disruptive technologies that they’re bringing to the table.

1. Augmentus (Singapore)

Founding date: 2019

Headquarters: Singapore

Founders: Yong Shin Leong & Daryl Lim

Mission: Augmentus is a Singapore startup that has developed a full-stack code-free robotic automation platform to enable any user, including those without any robotic experience such as urban farmers, to develop robotic systems. This solution means reduced time, lowered costs and skill barriers for robotic automation.

2. AuroraFood (Singapore)

Founding date: 2019

Headquarters: Singapore

Founders: Jing Gao & Xiaoxuan Jin

Mission: Created by scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Aurora Food is a patent-pending food tech platform offering a glycemic index (GI) lowering technology that enables the production of baked goods and desserts with a slow sugar release without the use of any sugar alternatives. The company hopes to make sweet indulgences healthier and more diabetic-friendly via a B2B model with foodservice chains. Their first product is a baking mix that enables a slower sugar release without any sugar alternatives.

3. Chilibeli (Indonesia)

Founding date: 2019

Headquarters: Jakarta, Indonesia

Founders: Alex Feng, Damon Yue & Matt Li

Mission: Jakarta-based Chilibeli is an online shopping platform for fresh products such as fruit, vegetables and other daily household items, but with an added “social commerce” aspect whereby users can interact and buy and sell with other members of the community. Through this social commerce concept, Chilibeli hopes to facilitate micro-entrepreneurship through its Mitra Chilibeli, or Chilibeli for Partners program, in the process empowering Indonesian women.

4. GreenPod Labs (India)

Founding date: 2019

Headquarters: Chennai, India

Founder: Deepak Rajmohan

Mission: GreenPod Labs is an agri-biotech firm creating sustainable solutions to combat food waste in India. It’s flagship technology is a nano-tech active packaging that can extend the shelf life of fresh produce like fruit and vegetables across the supply chain. It works by using plant phenolic compounds to slow down the ethylene biosynthesis process, as well as activating an acquired resistance of the product to help it retain its fresh quality.

5. Senzagro (Sri Lanka)

Founding date: 2017

Headquarters: Colombo, Sri Lanka

Founders: Miller Alexander Rajendran, Anton Crises John Nirajh & Tharmakulasingam Jeyjenthan

Mission: Senzagro is an agriculture company that has created the world’s most advanced smart irrigation service, which automates optimal irrigation and adaptation to increase crop yields for farmers, while providing water and energy cost savings too. It’s IoT technology collects information about all environmental conditions that affect agriculture, from weather to moisture and soil fertility, which in turn is used to provide the data to automate the drips and sprinklers, providing exactly what farms need.

To read more and discover further start ups in the area of ethical food production, follow the link below:

https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/sustainable-food-startups/

There are plenty of ways to approach food ethics and various reasons for making ethical food choices. Some make the change for moral reasons, while others do it for their health. No matter why you’re making this choice, ethical eating requires knowing where your food comes from as well as the impact it has on other people, animals, and the environment.

Reduce the Amount of (Red) Meat You Eat

Meat products, beef, in particular, have become a very unethical food choice. Producing meat takes a far greater toll on the environment than vegetables. Not just in things like animal-feed production and water use but also in transportation, packaging, and energy.

Increase the Amount of (Raw) Plants You Eat

To continue on the theme of balance, increasing the amount of plant-based foods in your diet is an ethical food choice that is good for all. To stay healthy, the human body requires a good deal of nutrition, much of which can be found in plants. Meals should consist of small portions of animal produce (otherwise, e.g., vitamin B12 supplementation becomes vital), with the rest of our plate space going to fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes

Support Local Farms and Shop at Farmers’ Markets

One of the most impactful ethical eating choices you can make is to buy food from the local farmers in your area. The farm may sell its products through your local grocery or sell from the farms themselves. Some even allow the public to come harvest crops for themselves or even sell you animals to have butchered.

Look for Fair Trade Foods

Issues surrounding workers’ rights are prevalent throughout the global agricultural industry. Many foods, including oranges, strawberries, chocolate, and coffee, are often picked by enslaved workers.

Always Read the Ingredient Lists

Food packaging is virtually always deceiving and foods are made to look better than they are. Often, pictures of the food on the packaging looks better than the actual product inside, and there are plenty of companies that claim their food to be healthier than they are via misleading statements and the like.

To find out more ways to become a sustainable consumer, follow a link to the original blog:

https://impactful.ninja/make-ethical-food-choices/

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The European E-learning Institute (EUEI) is committed to providing high-quality learning experiences and innovative educational programmes which engage learners from a range of sectors and socio-economic backgrounds. EUEI is committed to promoting social cohesion, inclusion, and sustainability across Europe, making them a perfect fit for the EFE Project.

Our experienced team of trainers, researchers and technical experts are uniquely placed to guide educators from VET, HEI, Adult and Youth sectors to harness the opportunities that innovative and collaborative e-learning and digital tools offer for learners.

We specialise in the delivering of high quality, responsive   and innovative projects to educators and learners in the topics of pedagogic approaches, entrepreneurial competences, digital skills, inclusion, and sustainability.

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Meet our the EUEI team working on the EFE project

Canice Hamill- Managing Director

Canice has worked in the field of lifelong education for over 20 years and is recognised as an expert in instructional design and the development of e-learning solutions for education and training. A former trainer and lecturer, Canice utilises a holistic approach to creating innovative, interactive learning environments and works closely with tutors, trainers, and development teams, emphasising the importance of empathy and user experience in every learning solution.

Our Logician -Innovative Inventors with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge

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Catherine Neill- European Project Manager

An experienced EU project manager, Catherine is an integral member of our team. She is an effective communicator and has a strong background in areas of Inclusion. The oldest of 5 children Catherine quickly learned how to lead the pack, utilising organisational skills alongside her passion for helping others, she is committed to making the world a more accessible, sustainable, and friendly place.

Our Protagonist -Charismatic and inspiring leaders, able to mesmerise their listeners.

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Aine Hamill- European Project Officer

Aine plays an important role in the learning design and subsequently in evaluating the effectiveness of our eLearning products on completion. Aine is always keen to engage with her creative side and implement the newest digital tools, pedagogies, and trends into our e-learning solutions. She is passionate about finding effective and relevant ways to engage learners from all walks of life.

Our Defender-dedicated and warm protectors, able to implement ideas and “create order from chaos”.

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Including our key role in the initiation of the Ethical food Entrepreneurs project we will also work tirelessly alongside our project partners to deliver the highest quality project results as possible. Within the project EUEI will develop the project website and be responsible for the technical realisation of the materials.

Learn more about EUEI here:www.euei.dk