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Food – it’s literally everywhere, we need it to survive, and yet we know less about it today than ever before. The way food is planted, cultivated, harvested, distributed, prepared and consumed holds the power of life and death for our planet, people, health, and resources. A growing, spontaneous movement is afoot to re-educate ourselves about food and truly celebrate our culinary traditions, rather than just feel confused and guilty about what we’re supposed to eat. What follows is a fairly comprehensive blog and website roundup of the Sustainable Food movement – here you will find diverse-but-complimentary perspectives on how to start an urban (or suburban) garden, how to support regional farmers, what national and international policy changes would support health and freedom, who to connect with to recover local food varieties and swap recipes with – and who to party with!
Bon Appetit!
To Orient
I recommend you begin by viewing Food Systems in Nine Minutes, a brief KedgeForward presentation by Frank Spencer & I
Articles
The Nation’s Food Issue – An excellent starting point (see this summary)
Eating Right – The American Conservative (anytime our flagship progressive & conservative intelligencia publications agree on something, you know it must be true!)
Christianity Today on Global Hunger Crisis
Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food – Time Magazine
The Power of Food – Yes! Magazine
The Ethics of Eating – NPR
Become an Urban Homesteader – Reality Sandwich
Blogs & Resources
Abundant Nutrition with Brooke Evans
Animal Vegetable Miracle the book! The movement! By Barbara Kingsolver
Bread For The World National & global food policy
Center for Urban Education and Sustainable Agriculture
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
Culinate Eat to Your Ideal
Deconstructing Dinner Radio Show
Eating Well A documentary film exploring Christian perspectives on factory farming
The Ecological Farming Association
Ecological Farming Association
The Ethicurean Chew the right thing.
Feeding America Was Second Harvest; working within today’s corrupt food system to liberate excess so others might simply live
Finding Balance Eating, Image, and Life
The Food Pantry Peace on Earth & Food for All; helpful guidelines here
Hyperlocavore – Yardsharing Community
Holma 35 – Integral farm!
Heifer International “Ending hunger, Caring for the earth”
Journey to Forever – A plethora of resources
Local Harvest Find fresh tasty local food close to you!
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
Northwest Local Mandi: an exploration of local food and community in the Pacific Northwest
Organic Schmorganic “Debunking the Myth of Organic”
Organic Working Group of the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (see also CropWatch)
Raj Patel – see also his amazing three-year-long Stuffed & Starved blog
Slow Food Movement (See also Slow Food USA and the Slow Food Wikipedia article)
Soul Food with the Ecclesia Collective
Take This Bread by Sara Miles
The Snail – publication of Slow Food USA
True Food Network Calling attention to genetically modified foods
What Would Jesus Eat? with Lucas Land
World Community Cookbooks from the Mennonites
World Hunger and Poverty Scott Hughes, Hartford, CT
World Hunger Relief Sustainable Agriculture & Hunger Relief
The World Institute of Slowness
Documentaries
Bad Seed: The Truth About Our Food
The Greenhorns (see their blog)
Aren’t humans amazing? They kill wildlife – birds, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice and foxes by the million in order to protect their domestic animals and their feed.
Then they kill domestic animals by the billion and eat them. This in turn kills people by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative – and fatal – - health conditions like heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and cancer.
So then humans spend billions of dollars torturing and killing millions of more animals to look for cures for these diseases.
Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals.
Meanwhile, few people recognize the absurdity of humans, who kill so easily and violently, and then call for “Peace on Earth.”
~Revised Preface to Old MacDonald’s Factory Farm by C. David Coates~
Check out this informative and inspiring video on why people choose vegan: http://veganvideo.org/
Also see Gary Yourofsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagt5L9wXGo