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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Resources for Sustainable Eating
  • Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:29:06 -0600


this is all from

http://www.michaelpollan.com/eat_sustainably.pdf

Resources for Sustainable Eating

BOOKS:
This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, by Joan Dye
Gussow

Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods, by Gary Paul
Nabhan

Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, by
Marion Nestle

Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm-Fresh Food, by
Joel
Salatin

Slow Food: Collected Thoughts on Taste, Tradition, and the Honest Pleasures
of Food,
by the Slow Food Movement

The Slow Food Guide to Chicago: Restaurants, Markets, Bars, by Kelly
Gibson, Portia
Belloc Lowndes, Amy Cook, and Melissa Graham

The Slow Food Guide to New York City: Restaurants, Markets, Bars, by
Patrick Martins
and Ben Watson

The Slow Food Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area: Restaurants,
Markets, Bars, by
Sylvan Brackett, Wendy Downing, and Sue Moore

Slow Food: The Case for Taste, by Carlo Petrini

WEB RESOURCES:

Center for Informed Food Choices (www.informedeating.org) advocates for a
diet
based on whole, unprocessed, local, organically grown plant foods; their
website contains
a useful FAQ page about food politics and eating well, as well as an
archive of relevant
articles.

Eat Well (www.eatwellguide.com) is an online directory of
sustainably-raised meat,
poultry, dairy, and eggs. Enter your zip code to find healthful, humane,
and eco-friendly
products from farms, stores, and restaurants in your area.

Eat Wild (www.eatwild.com) lists local suppliers for grass-fed meat and
dairy products.
Food Routes (www.foodroutes.org) is a national nonprofit dedicated to
“reintroducing
Americans to their food—the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce
it, and the
routes that carry it from the fields to our tables.”

Heritage Foods USA (www.heritagefoodsusa.com) sells mail-order
‘traceable’
products from small farms—maple syrup, pole caught tuna, grassfed kobe
beef—whose
labels provide every detail about their production and processing.

Just Food (www.justfood.org) works to develop a just and sustainable food
system in
the New York City region, through projects including City Farms (a NYC
community
garden program) and Community Supported Agriculture (which connects
regional
farmers with produce-hungry city dwellers).

Local Harvest (www.localharvest.com) offers a definitive and reliable
nationwide
directory of CSAs, farmers markets, family farms, and other local food
sources.

Locavores (www.locavores.com), based in San Francisco, encourages people to
eat only
foods produced within a 100-mile radius of home. Their Food Web page offers
a plethora
of additional resources, including books, articles, and websites.

Organic Consumers Association (www.organicconsumers.org), a research and
action
center for the organic and fair-trade food movement, maintains a
comprehensive web
archive of articles about genetically engineered foods, cloning, food
safety, organics, and
globalization.

Seafood Watch (www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp)—a program of Monterey
Bay Aquarium designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of
buying
seafood from sustainable sources—offers a downloadable, pocket-sized
region-by-region
guide to eco-friendly seafood.

Slow Food USA (www.slowfoodusa.org) is a non-profit educational
organization
dedicated to land stewardship and ecologically sound food production; to
supporting and
celebrating the food traditions of North America; and to living a slower
and more
harmonious life.

Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture (www.stonebarnscenter.org) is a
handson
educational center and restaurant that aims to demonstrate, teach and
promote
sustainable, community-based food production on a real working farm 30
miles from
Manhattan.

Sustainable Table (www.sustainabletable.org) offers an introduction to the
sustainable
food movement and the issues surrounding it, plus resources for further
investigation (the
links for ‘Introduction to Sustainability’ and ‘The Issues’ are
good places to start).

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets)
includes a state-by-state listing of farmer’s markets across the US.

Worldwatch Institute (www.worldwatch.org) is an independent research
organization
working “for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society.”
Their website
features accessible, compelling, analytical publications—including their
annual State of
the World book—that address critical global issues.







  • [Livingontheland] Resources for Sustainable Eating, Tradingpost, 06/18/2009

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