Today’s Tip: Drink tap water instead of unhealthy soft drinks and sports drinks.
The drink aisle at your local grocery store can be a very confusing place. The claim “Lite” on a soda makes the aspartame, sucralose, and acesulfame-K based drinks seem healthy (those are the top three artificial sweeteners). The claim of “natural” is [...]

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Here’s a review of Nicolette Hahn Niman’s book, Righteous Porkchop, written for us by Laura Edwards-Orr… so timely in the wake of the swine flu and all the speculation about factory farming! (for more info on the Niman’s, With Goat, a Rancher Breaks Away From the Herd, from the New York Times)
Righteous Porkchop – finding [...]

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When shopping for local, sustainable and/or organic food, there are several factors to take into account, including awareness, access, budget and time.
Awareness
First, you need to know what to look for and to understand what local, sustainable and organic mean. Hopefully, the earlier Guide to Good Food posts have helped explain this.
In an ideal world, [...]

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Our very own Regina Weiss (communications director for Sustainable Table) brings attention to the seemingly obvious connection between CAFOs/Factory Farms and a variety of environmental ailments, including the possibility of swine flu in this Op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Peach Bottom Township is engaged in a showdown with state officials over a proposed factory hog farm. [...]

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