Fair Trade:
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www.fairtradefederation.com
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Fair Trade Federation is the trade association that
strengthens and promotes North American organizations fully
committed to fair trade.
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Farmer's Markets:
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www.ams.usda.gov
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USDA Farmer's Market Info Page.
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apps.ams.usda.gov
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USDA Farmer's Market Search Page. Find a Farmer's Market
near your home.
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Food Aid:
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www.secondharvest.org
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Second Harvest is the US's largest domestic hunger relief
organization. Second Harvest Network Food Bank provides
food assistance to more than 25 million low-income hungry
people in the United States, including more than 9 million
children and nearly 3 million seniors.
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www.frac.org
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Food Research and Action Center is a US nonprofit working
to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to
eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States.
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www.worldhungeryear.org
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World Hunger Year is a non-profit advocate for innovative,
community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. WHY
challenges society to confront these problems by advancing
models that create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal
access to nutritious and affordable food in the US and
abroad.
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''Currently, up to 45 percent of U.S. corn is genetically engineered as is 85 percent of soybeans.
It has been estimated that 70-75 percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves--from soda to
soup, crackers to condiments--contain genetically engineered ingredients.''
www.centerforfoodsafety.org/geneticall7.cfm
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Food Miles:
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www.leopold.iastate.edu
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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Calculating
food miles for a multiple ingredient food product. PDF.
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www.leopold.iastate.edu
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Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. How far do
your fruits and vegetables travel? PDF.
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pubs.acs.org
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Environmental Science and Technology. "Food-Miles and the
Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States"
Carnegie Mellon University. April 2008.
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www.ethicurean.com
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Ethicurean Blog "Fighting climate change: Food miles vs. food
choices" 23 June 2008.
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In developing countries, 2.5 billion people rely on
biomass, such as wood, charcoal, agricultural waste and animal dung for cooking.
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Food Safety:
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www.foodsafety.gov.
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FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
FoodSafety is a gateway website that provides links to
selected government food safety-related information. Part of
the National Food Safety Information Network.
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www.centerforfoodsafety.org
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Center for Food Safety is a non-profit public interest and
environmental advocacy membership organization established
for the purpose of challenging harmful food production
technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives.
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www.foodandwaterwatch.org
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Food & Water Watch is a nonprofit consumer organization
that works to ensure clean water and safe food. Challenges
the corporate control and abuse of our food and water
resources by empowering people to take action and by
transforming the public awareness about what we eat and
drink.
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www.foodsecurity.org
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Community Food Security Coalition is a non-profit 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. Aims to develop
self-reliance among all communities to create a system of
growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and
selling food that is regionally based and grounded in the
principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability.
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www.fao.org
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United Nations- Food and Agriculture Organization's Food
Quality and Standards Service (AGNS) is committed to the
enhancement of food safety and quality along the food chain
at international, regional and national levels, with the aim of
protecting consumers and promoting the production and trade
of safe, quality food.
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www.consumersunion.org
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Consumers Union’s food safety efforts seek to focus public
attention on food safety risks and regulatory deficiencies
that can result in harm to the public. The non-profit publisher
of Consumer Reports.
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Genetically Modified Organisms: (spliced and diced DNA)
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www.gmo-compass.org
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GMO Food Database.
Enter the name of a plant, foodstuff, ingredient or additive to
find food products or plants gene technology. The setting-up
of this website was financially supported by the European
Union within the European Commission’s Sixth Framework
Programme.
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www.sierraclub.org
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Sierra Club has launched a campaign against genetically
engineered foods, and is targeting Kraft Foods, which is the
largest packaged food producer in America. Philip Morris, the
tobacco giant, owns most Kraft's stock. Instructions on how
you can help.
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pirg.org
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State PIRGs and Genetically Engineered Food Alert are
urging Kraft Foods and other food companies to stop using
genetically engineered ingredients until mandatory and
thorough testing, labeling and liability standards are in place.
Instructions on how you can help.
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www.i-sis.org.uk
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Institute of Science in Society is a not for profit
organisation dedicated to providing critical and accessible
scientific information to the public and to promoting social
accountability and ecological sustainability in science.
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www.centerfor
foodsafety.org
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The Center for Food Safety a non-profit public interest and
environmental advocacy membership organization established
for the purpose of challenging harmful food production
technologies and promoting sustainable alternatives.
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www.geaction.org
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Genetic Engineering Action Network seeks to support and
further the work of those organizations and individuals
working to address the risks to the environment, biodiversity
and human health, as well as the socioeconomic and ethical
consequences of genetic engineering.
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Genetically Modified Organisms Reports:
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www.greenpeace.org
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GreenPeace. "Genetically-engineered food: potential threat to
fertility" Study shows that genetically engineered maize
affects reproductive health in mice. November 2008.
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bmgfj.cms.apa.at
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FiBL & Universität Wien "Biological effects of transgenic
maize NK603xMON810 fed in long term reproduction studies
in mice" 11. November 2008. Over all generations studied,
about twice as many pups were lost in the GE group as
compared with the control group. Kidney size was smaller in
the GE group as well as impaired liver metabolism and
important differences in gene expression. PDF.
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History:
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www.foodtimeline.org
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Food Timeline was created in response to students, parents
and teachers who frequently asked for help locating food
history and period recipes at the Morris County Library NJ.
Find when and how specific foods became popular. Fun!
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Local:
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attra.org
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ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information
Service. Listings for local food directories and promotional
programs, searchable by state.
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www.glynwood.org
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Glynwood. "Guide to Serving Local Food on Your Menu" A
guide for Chefs and Food Service Professionals on how to
integrate local food into their operations. Provides advice and
insider tips. PDF.
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www.eatwellguide.org
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Eat Well Guide is a free online directory of thousands of
family farms, restaurants, markets and other outlets of
fresh, locally-grown food throughout the United States and
Canada. Visitors simply enter a zip or postal code to find good
food and create free printable booklets
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www.localharvest.org
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Local Harvest, a directory of small farms, farmers markets,
and other local food sources.
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www.newfarm.org
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Rodale Institute. Farm Locator; locate a farm in your area. A
place where farmers and businesses can match-make with
each other. Coming soon, restaurants, retail stores,
institutional buyers and other food businesses interested in
purchasing produce from local farmers.
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www.nutrition.cornell.edu
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Cornell's Northeast Regional Food Guide Fact Sheets
""Seasoning" Your Kitchen" -Eating season appropriate.
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www.foodroutes.org
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FoodRoutes is a national non-profit 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. Plus, Tools for Action, including
campaign materials for farming advocates and toolkits.
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Eating Local
Eliminates lengthy transport and middlemen.
Reconnects you to those who grow your food.
Builds commitment to a sustainable way of life and society.
Contributes to the local economy and saves local farmland.
Eating local and fresh guarantees better food quality and nutrition.
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Milk:
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www.mindfully.org
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Mindfully.org Lists Dairies Using Glass Bottles for Milk in the
US.
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A mother’s breast milk level of DDE (a metabolite of DDT),
may be 6 to 7 times higher than that found in her blood.
Wolff M. Occupationally derived chemicals in breast milk. Am J Ind Med.1983; 4 :259 –281[ISI][Medline]
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Milk Reports:
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orgprints.org
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Quality Low Input Food. Subproject 2: Effects of
production methods, "Effect of dairy management on quality
characteristics of milk" Paper presented at Joint Organic
Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006
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www.rodaleinstitute.org
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Rodale Institute. "The truth about milk" Raw milk proponent
and dairyman Mark McAfee sheds light on pasteurization, the
benefits of consuming unadulterated food, and the war on
bacteria.
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Monsanto’s U.S. plantings of GE corn (NK603 x MON810) have grown from
2.2 million acres in 2002 to 38.2 million acres in 2008.
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Monsanto: indexed in agriculture as well
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www.centerforfoodsafety.org
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The Center for Food Safety. Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers
Report. 2005 report that documents Monsanto's lawsuits
against American farmers, revealing thousands of
investigations, nearly 100 lawsuits and numerous bankruptcies.
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www.etcgroup.org
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ETC Group "Patenting the "Climate Genes" ...and Capturing the
Climate Agenda" The world’s largest seed and agrochemical
corporations are stockpiling hundreds of monopoly patents on
genes in plants that the companies will market as crops
genetically engineered to withstand environmental stresses
such as drought, heat, cold, floods, saline soils, and more...
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''Americans eat 815 billion calories of food each day - that's roughly 200 billion more than needed
- enough to feed 80 million people.
Plus, Americans throw out 200,000 tons of edible food daily.''
http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Americans-Consume-24percent.htm
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News Sites:
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www.nutritiondata.com
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Nutrition Data- well presented nutritional analysis, news and
blog. Condé Nast Publications. Analyze your recipes for
detailed nutrient information and tracking and then save them
on site! Info such as nutrient loses due to processing, food
comparisons, lots more.
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News/Articles:
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henrysfarm.com
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Henry's Farm. ”Organic Matters” By Henry Brockman
(Excerpt) *** A must read !
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www.nytimes.com
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NY Times article on small scale farming. "Change We Can
Stomach" By DAN BARBER Published: May 11, 2008. ***
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www.conservationmagazine.org
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Conservation Magazine. "The Problem of What to Eat"
Organic farming and eating locally make intuitive sense. But
does conventional wisdom about eating sustainably hold up to
the science? July-September 2008.
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www.nytimes.com
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"Unhappy Meals" By Micheal Pollan. NY Times.
Published: January 28, 200. "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly
plants."
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www.treesforlife.org
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Trees for Life. Moringa leaves could practically wipe out
malnutrition on our planet.
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Nutritional Databases:
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www.nal.usda.gov
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USDA National Nutrient Database. Lists calories, vitamins,
minerals, proteins and more... ***
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www.cfsan.fda.gov
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition. Total Diet Study Statistics on Element
Results. Information on the trace minerals arsenic, cadmium,
iodine, lead, mercury, nickel and more. PDF. ***
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fnic.nal.usda.gov
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USDA National Agricultural Library's Food Composition Portal.
Lots of resources, links, etc...
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www.nutritiondata.com
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Nutrition Data- well presented nutritional analysis. Condé
Nast Publications. Analyze your recipes for detailed nutrient
information and tracking and then save them on site! Info
such as nutrient loses due to processing, food comparisons,
lots more.
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www.oldwayspt.org
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Old Ways- Non-profit "food issues think tank" that promotes
sound nutrition. Educational activities, conferences and
materials about healthy eating, drinking, lifestyle and the
traditional pleasures of the table.
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"perhaps the greatest culprit behind lost nutritional value is simply that old nemesis, the passage of time.
As soon as a vegetable is picked it begins losing nutritional value—and fast. Leeks, for example, lose over
50% of their total carotene within three days. A study by Mary Eheart and Dianne Odland showed that
even under optimal storage temperatures green beans lose 60% of their Vitamin C in the first three days
after harvest and lose another third by the end of the fourth day."
”Organic Matters”By Henry Brockman henrysfarm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30&Itemid=51
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