TRYING to buy "green" groceries with a nine-month-old baby has become an interesting challenge ("Choosing green groceries", (WT, January 20).

Being a new mum is fraught with enough emotion - are you doing the right thing, breast feeding for long enough, using the right nappies, and then your little creature starts food.

I guess if you want the best I feed my baby organic rice cereal that is made in Tasmania - but rice cereal in Tassie (let alone Australia)?

Another organic option is made in the US.

I can't even begin to imagine the carbon footprint that pack of organic rice cereal has on making its way to Australia - as much as the wee man enjoys eating it.

I guess I'm glad he's ending his rice cereal days and heading into the light of whole rice product of Thailand, where I can picture a family making their income working in a rice paddy in a country that has monsoonal weather, appropriate for rice growing.

It's a prettier picture but I wonder about the carbon footprint.

Heather Thege, Northcote, Victoria

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