This post comes from Diane Hatz, originally posted on CSRwire Talkback:
What’s the best way to feed Haiti’s starving masses?
The earthquake that devastated Haiti on January 12th shocked the world. Immediate relief efforts must continue for as long as necessary and need to focus on providing food, shelter and medical care for the millions [...]

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Taco Bell is touting its new “Fresco” menu options as a legitimate path to weight loss yet somehow, I don’t think it’s the best diet plan.  I’m not even really sure where to begin wailing on this one – the factory farmed meat, the sodium, the processed food, the chemicals. All I’m going to say [...]

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Catch “What’s on Your Plate?,” the documentary about kids and food politics (and a favorite of the Sustainable Table staff), on national TV this Sunday – February 7th!
Join families across the country for a Family Cook-In! on Sunday, February 7th and spend an afternoon learning with your kids about food – what it’s made of, [...]

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From our friends at Healthy Monday…
Next time you look at a bunch of broccoli, think of those stalks and florets as a bouquet bursting with beneficial compounds.  Açai and goji berries may be the darlings of the superfood set, but there’s a reason why the Romans revered broccoli.  Ounce for ounce, this offspring of a [...]

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This thorough rebuttal of “Demystifying the Environmental Sustainability of Food Production” was originally posted on The Green Fork blog by Chris Hunt:
Something’s been bothering me since Thanksgiving, festering deep in the gut like an angry conglomeration of undigested yams and cranberry relish… The disturbance: junk science.  The offending bit of ivory tower mediocrity: Demystifying the [...]

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The first installation of Alice Waters Edible Schoolyards program will be hitting the East Coast soon. The NYTimes reports a price tag of $1.6 million making it an easily replicable project for cash-strapped New York schools.
New York City: Home of Wall Street, the Yankees, townhouses and haute cuisine. Also home to 3.3 million people struggling [...]

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On Tuesday (because we were off on Monday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day) from our friends at Meatless Monday:
Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I want to state unequivocally that discrimination on the basis of color is never, ever acceptable–unless we’re talking about the respective merits of white grapefruits versus pink or [...]

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This post comes from Kerry Trueman at the Green Fork Blog.

The horror in Haiti is beyond anything we can imagine in the U.S., but this apocalyptic catastrophe has something in common with Hurricane Katrina; in both cases, a terrible natural disaster was made infinitely worse by human negligence and incompetence. How many thousands of [...]

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To start today’s Dish, I’d like to say our thoughts here at Sustainable Table are with all those affected by the tragic earthquake in Haiti. If you are able, we encourage you to donate much needed funds to the relief effort. You can find a list of dependable relief agencies on CNN’s website. And now [...]

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Have you visited the Sustainable Table website lately? It’s packed with information about why sustainable agriculture is so important to personal health, environmental health, community health, and more. Worried about disease (obesity, cancer, diabetes), climate change, the air you breathe, or the water you drink?  Care about fair labor standards, immigrants’ rights, family farmers, or [...]

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