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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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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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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In case you weren’t already convinced by the tons (literally) of anecdotal evidence that High Fructose Corn Syrup is bad for you, science has finally proven it. Read the details on Grist about how HFCS alters metabolism and goes straight to the thighs.
What do anthropologists do? They take all the factors– biology, culture, ecology – [...]

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The menu may say sustainable, but they may be “fudging” the truth. The Washington Post reports on one well-known eatery whose promise of local/sustainable doesn’t always pan out in reality.
Marion Nestle gives a nice round-up of what our tireless food agencies have been (or haven’t been) up to lately.  USDA – FDA – FTC
How does [...]

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Another win for Big Ag and CAFO lovers alike. Ohio passed a constitutional amendment creating a “Livestock Care Standards Board”. While this may sound promising, it thwarts organizations such as the Humane Society from trying to improve the standards of animal care and prevents new laws from being passed such as the one in California [...]

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We tax cigarettes, we tax alcohol, we may even tax soda. Now the idea of taxing meat is being bandied about by Peter Singer, professor of bioethics at Princeton University in The New York Daily News. Is it a classist ploy or the earth’s environmental salvation?
Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book, “Eating Animals”, is the [...]

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When I think “diet”, I don’t normally think “cookies”, but according to the New York Times, a “cookie diet” indeed exists. I think I’ll stick with a good old fashioned weight-loss program of grapefruit and cabbage broth.
I knew they would find a use for all that poop! A Vermont dairy farm will be turning manure [...]

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Did you know that Denmark is the world’s largest exporter of pork? And on top of that, much of that pork is produced sans antibiotics! While American agribusiness has given the Danes lots of slack for their anti-antibiotic stance calling it a “failure”, the numbers prove otherwise. Check out Laura Rogers report on the Huffington [...]

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At a wine tasting, one sniffs, gargles, spits and comments on the terroir – land on which the grapes were grown and whence comes the flavor. But have you ever gotten a good sniff of the terroir itself? Anne Zimmerman, writing for Culinate, gets up close and personal with some soil, and has an opportunity [...]

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