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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
  • Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:52:30 -0700


Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
links to each organization or reference are in the page at
http://www.mercola.com/article/agriculture.htm
Dr. Joseph Mercola

Consumers are paying a high cost for substandard, cheap factory food. The
following links are working on different areas but all have the same goal -
to support sustainable agriculture. There are far too many groups to
mention here (apologies to those we missed). Be sure to find local
sustainable agricultural groups in your area as many of them hold extremely
informative annual meetings where you can meet local farmers. Depending
upon your area of interest, familiarize yourself with any or all of the
following links.

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If you are concerned about the quality of the food you are buying at
the grocery store, some of the following links will help guide to healthier
more humane choices through local farms.
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If you are interested in stopping factory farming, some of the
following links will help show you how to get involved.
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If you are a farmer who is interested in producing food for
consumers, there are links below that will help show you how.
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Some of the following links will also be able to provide scientific
literature supporting the benefits of sustainable agriculture.

It is important to understand the impact you have when you spend your money
on factory food. Changing your shopping patterns by supporting local
agriculture will not only help improve your health, it will also help
improve the environment and bring back our rural communities.

Weston A. Price Foundation
The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human
diet through education, research and activism. It supports accurate
nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of
livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling,
prepared parenting and nurturing therapies.

Slow Food
The association's activities seek to defend biodiversity in our food
supply, spread the education of taste, and link producers of excellent
foods to consumers through events and initiatives.

Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance is an advocate for the many thousands
of independent farmers, ranchers, livestock owners, and homesteaders in
this country.

Eat Wild
Eatwild.com is an excellent source for safe, healthy, natural and
nutritious grass-fed beef, lamb, goats, bison, poultry, pork and dairy
products.

The Meatrix
An excellent flash presentation about factory farming and links about what
you can do about it.

Food Routes
The FoodRoutes Find Good Food map can help you connect with local farmers
and start eating the freshest, tastiest food around. Find your local food
on their interactive map, listing farmers, CSAs, and local markets near
you.

Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)

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Grace Factory Farm Project
The GRACE Factory Farm Project (GFFP) works to create a sustainable
food production system that is healthful and humane, economically viable,
and environmentally sound.
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Eat Well Guide: Wholesome Food from Healthy Animals
The Eat Well Guide is a free, online directory of sustainably-raised
meat, poultry, dairy and eggs from farms, stores, restaurants, inns and
hotels, and online outlets in the US and Canada.
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Sustainable Table
Helping consumers make healthy food choices to create a sustainable
system.
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Sustainable Food In Schools
If you don't like the food being served in your or your child's
cafeteria, do something to change it! Includes guidelines on what to do,
how to do it, and examples of successful initiatives underway around the
country.

Local Harvest
This website will help you find farmers' markets, family farms, and other
sources of sustainably-grown food in your area, where you can buy produce,
grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.

Farmers Markets
National listing of farmers markets.

Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Kerr Center was established to provide farmers and ranchers in the area
with free technical assistance and information on how to improve their
operations. Wise stewardship was emphasized.

National Farm to School
Farm to School programs are popping up all over the U.S. These programs
connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy
meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health
and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and
supporting local small farmers.

Farm to College
This site presents information about farm-to-college programs in the U.S.
and Canada collected by the Community Food Security Coalition.

Center for Food and Justice: Farm to Hospital
The CFJ has a program Farm to Hospital: Promoting Health and Supporting
Local Agriculture.

Farm to Cafeteria: Community Food Security Coalition
Putting Local Food on the Table: Farms and Food Service in Partnership
Farm to school programs have been addressing the dual issues of improving
children's health and providing new marketing options for family farmers.

Food Security Coalition
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a North American
organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional
food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally
appropriate food for all people at all times

The True Food Network
The goal of the True Food Network Working is to create a socially just,
democratic and sustainable food system.

Acres USA
Acres U.S.A. is the only national magazine that offers a comprehensive
guide to sustainable agriculture. Drawing on knowledge accumulated in more
than 35 years of continuous publication, we bring our readers the latest
techniques for growing bountiful, nutritious crops and healthy, vibrant
livestock. Acres U.S.A. has helped thousands of farmers feed the nation's
growing appetite for clean, delicious food.

Ecological Farming Association
Eco-Farm supports a vision for our food system where strengthening soils,
protecting air and water, encouraging diverse ecosystems and economies, and
honoring rural life are all part of producing healthful food.

National Family Farm Coalition
The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) provides a voice for grassroots
groups on farm, food, trade and rural economic issues to ensure fair prices
for family farmers, safe and healthy food, and vibrant, environmentally
sound rural communities here and around the world.

Rural Coalition
The Rural Coalition is an alliance of regionally and culturally diverse
organizations working to build a more just and sustainable food system
which: brings fair returns to minority and other small farmers and rural
communities, ensures just and fair working conditions for farm workers,
protects the environment, delivers safe and healthy food to consumers

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy promotes resilient family
farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research
and education, science and technology, and advocacy.

Grain
GRAIN is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) which
promotes the sustainable management and use of agricultural biodiversity
based on people's control over genetic resources and local knowledge.

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture explores and cultivates
alternatives that secure healthier people and landscapes in Iowa and the
nation.

Rodale Institute
The Rodale Institute works with people worldwide to achieve a regenerative
food system that renews environmental and human health working with the
philosophy that "Healthy Soil = Healthy Food = Healthy People ®

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New Farm (Rodale Institute)
Helping consumers, brokers, restaurateurs and other farmers find the
farm services they're looking for.

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has
helped advance farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound
and good for communities through a nationwide research and education grants
program.

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is a diverse nationwide
partnership of individuals and organizations cultivating grass roots
efforts to engage in policy development processes that result in food and
agricultural systems and rural communities that are healthy,
environmentally sound, profitable, humane and just.

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
ATTRA provides information and other technical assistance to farmers,
ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable
agriculture in the United States.

Family Farm Defenders
The FFD mission is to create a farmer-controlled and consumer-oriented food
and fiber system, based upon democratically controlled institutions that
empower farmers to speak for and respect themselves in their quest for
social and economic justice.

The Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) is an interest and environmental advocacy
membership organization established in 1997 by its sister organization,
International Center for Technology Assessment, for the purpose of
challenging harmful food production technologies and promoting sustainable
alternatives.

ETC Group
ETC group is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable advancement of
cultural and ecological diversity and human rights.

Environmental Working Group
EWG specializes in environmental investigations. They have a team of
scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers who
pore over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own
laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and
to find solutions.

WorldWatch Institute
WorldWatch is an independent research group working for an environmentally
sustainable and socially just society. An excellent book published by
WorldWatch institute is by Brian Halweil, Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown
Pleasures in a Global Supermarket, 2004.

Union of Concerned Scientists
UCS is an independent nonprofit alliance of more than 100,000 concerned
citizens and scientists. We augment rigorous scientific analysis with
innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build a cleaner,
healthier environment and a safer world.

Institute of Science in Society
ISIS promotes science responsible to civil society and the public good,
independent of commercial and other special interests, or of government
control and a science that can help make the world sustainable, equitable
and life-enhancing for all its inhabitants.

Organic Consumers Association
OCA is building a national network of consumers promoting food safety,
organic agriculture, fair trade and sustainability.

Organic Center for Education and Promotion
OCEP generates credible, peer reviewed scientific information and
communicate the verifiable benefits of organic farming and products to
society.

Food and Water Watch
FWW is working on issues such as food and water safety, mad cow,
sustainable agriculture, irradiation. Also has a factory farm campaign
which aims to change government policies that promote factory farms, fight
corporate control that forces farmers "to get big or get out," and
encourage sustainably raised meat.

United Poultry Concerns, Inc
UPC is dedicated to the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic
fowl.

Sierra Club
(Including a toolkit for Factory Farm Pollution Activists)
The Sierra Club's mission is to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places
of the earth. Practice and promote the responsible us of the earth's
ecosystems and resources. Educate and enlist humanity to protect and
restore the quality of the natural and human environment. Use all lawful
means to carry out these objectives.

Beyond Factory Farming
Beyond Factory Farming is a coalition of citizen's organizations from all
across Canada that share a vision of livestock production for health and
social justice. Their mission is to promote livestock production that
supports food sovereignty, ecological, human and animal health, as well as
sustainability and community viability and informed citizen/consumer
choice.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

Wegmans Cruelty
Video showing what goes on inside a factory chicken farm. Includes news and
events.

Humane Society of the US
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has worked since 1954 to
promote the protection of all animals.

Humane Farming Association
HFA is an animal protection organization. Campaigns against factory farming
and slaughterhouse abuse. Also home to the world's largest farm animal
refuge.

Compassionate Consumers
Compassionate Consumers was founded in 2003 by a small group of people
concerned about animal welfare in the food industry.






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