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Help Us Help You!
February 1st, 2008 4 CommentsOn Wednesday, we posted up a survey about Sustainable Table and the educational kits we’re currently putting together for those of you who’d like to share information on sustainable food with others.
If you’re interested in taking the survey, please click here. (We really appreciate any feedback you can give us.)
Some of the results we’ve found so far are:
- 60% of you are interested in receiving our educational kits.
- Information on Buy/Eat Local and Organic were the two most requested types of information (over 70% of respondents are requesting both).
- Besides information, the top requested item for the kits are handouts to encourage consumers to take positive action.
- 80% of respondents are repeat visitors to the site, with over 30% having visited 9 or more times!
- Over 80% want regularly updated information, and over 84% want more information on local food.
Interestingly, 83% of respondents have never visited the blog here, which is a bit surprising to us. We’re wondering if our blog audience is different from our web site audience – which is why we’d appreciate you taking about 10 minutes to fill out the survey – we’d like to see if any of the results will change.
It also has become apparent that people come to Sustainable Table for information on the issues, so this year we’ll be working harder to explain and bring you up to date with current information in the sustainable food world.
Our last question in the survey is a general, open-ended question where you can write in anything you want. If there’s something you’d like to see on the blog that we’re not providing, or something you’d like to see more of, please let us know. Thanks!
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4 Responses to “Help Us Help You!”
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Michelle February 1st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Though you make some valid points about agriculture and corporate farms for the most part this was very uninformed or misinformed. For starters large farms tend to leave less of a carbon foot print then small operations because the takle measures to reduce this. Dairy cattle have to be healthy and happy otherwise the will not produce, in general producing dairy cattle are treated like gold. And ass for the downer cattle being fed back to other cows legislation has been put in place to not allow any animal by products to be fed to bovine species since the mad cow out break in the UK. Also in the case of the farrowing stalls that sows are kept in they are put in place to decrease the mortality of the piglets. Which is more inhumane phaving a sow confined or having her crush and kill her piglets? I think most of you know the answer to that. Slaughter houses are also very clean and steril operations there are not feces in beef. Battery cages are not the most pleasent practice but they are very efficent and do not subject the hens to poor air quality. Aslo chickens are debeaked to prevent canniblaism and to keep them from inficting pain on each other. ARE people allowed to stab other people, i think not. Also there are alot of so called ‘factory’ farms that are still a family operation they have simply intesified to production so that they can afford to make there living farming in todays economy. Needless to say i think you need to get some of your facts straight before condeming the agriculture industry the welfare of the animals is highly regulated and they arent living in a life of suffering.
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Hi
I was wondering if you might write a review of our new web cooking show on your blog. Cookus Interruptus, how to cook fresh locacl organic whole foods despite life’s interruptions found at http://www.cookusinterruptus.com .
Thanks. I enjoyed reading many of your posts.
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HI Cynthia!!
Is this really you?? I love love love your book, “Feeding the Whole Family!” I went to school at the Institute of Integrated Nutrition and they gave me the book… I use it for myself (I have no kids!) and I give it to all of my friends who have babies. It is really a wonderful book and I’m excited to take sometime to look around your website, it looks pretty entertaining.
Maybe we can do a trade? I’ll review your website on our blog, if you will share a recipe with us on our website??? (I’ll still blog if you have some fancy legal issues about sharing recipes!).
Thank you for writing in! Dawn
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Hi Michelle -
Obviously, we have two very different opinions. Everything here on the Sustainable Table website is backed up with footnotes. I’ve also been to a factory farm and they’re inhumane for all invovled – people, animals and the environment.
I don’t have time or space to answer all your comments – though I can refute each of them, the one thing I must say is that we in no way are criticizing or putting down farmers of any size. We understand that some farmers felt they had to get bigger and have been put in a really difficult situation. It’s the system that’s the problem, and the system needs to be changed. And I am confident that our facts are straight. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment.
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