Presented by:
The Sierra Club National
Sustainable Consumption Committee
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The True Cost of Food:
A campaign to promote sustainable food choices.
from the Sierra Club National Sustainable Consumption Committee.

We, the consumers, through our food choices, can stop the practices that harm our health, our planet, and our quality of life.

The True Cost of Food is a 15 minute educational and entertaining video about sustainable food. Email truecostoffood@aol.com to get a copy of the video (DVD or VHS) and discussion guide.

links

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Sustainable Consumption Links

Sierra Club's Sustainable Consumption Pages:
http://www.sierraclub.org/sustainable_consumption

Sierra Club's Factory Farms Pages:
http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms


Cooking Links

Carnegie Library Searchable Online Archive of Recipes (SOAR)
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/food/

Conscious Choice
http://www.consciouschoice.com/cooking/index.html

The Global Gourmet
http://www.globalgourmet.com

Mollie Katzen Online
http://www.molliekatzen.com/

Organic.org
http://www.organic.org/?section=recipes&recipe_classification=1&option=1

Stoneyfield Farm:
http://recipes.stonyfield.com/recipecategories.cfm

Sustainable Table:
http://www.sustainabletable.org/kitchen/recipes/


Science and Research Links

Worldwatch Institute Consumption:
http://www.worldwatch.org/features/consumption/

Worldwatch's Online Food Feature:
http://www.worldwatch.org/features/food/

Union of Concerned Scientists Food and Environment Program:
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_environment/index.cfm

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Food, Farming and Health:
http://www.nrdc.org/health/pesticides/default.asp

The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education:
http://www.sustainabilityed.org/


Foundations and Organizations that Focus on Food

Diet for a New Frances Moore Lappè's Small Planet Institute:
http://www.smallplanetinstitute.org/

Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE):
http://www.gracelinks.org/

Organic Consumers' Association:
www.organicconsumers.org/

Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health:
http://www.jhsph.edu/Environment

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture(NCSA):
http://www.sustainableagriculture.net/

Center for Ecoliteracy Food Systems (CEFS):
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/

Center for Food Safety:
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/


Information on Finding Good Food

Grace's Sustainable Table:
http://www.sustainabletable.org/home/

Local Harvest:
www.localharvest.org

CSA Center:
www.csacenter.org

I Buy Different:
www.ibuydifferent.org/


USDA and EPA Resources

U.S. EPA's Potential Environmental Impacts of Animal Feeding Operations:
http://epa.gov/guide/cafo/

USDA Sustainable Agriculture Site:
www.sare.org/


Further Reading: We are a working on a list of books and articles that supply information about sustainable food choices. Check back to see more sources.

  • Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
  • The Meat We Eat, Ken Midkiffe
  • Eat Here, Brian Halwell

"The Oil We Eat" - Following the food chain back to Iraq" which tells the story of the energy it takes to grow/make our food. Harper's Magazine, February 2004. By Richard Manning.


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