The entire Guide to Good Food series has been developed to help you get to know your food, but here’s an easy tip to help you when shopping. This will apply mainly to grocery stores, not to farmers’ markets where you’re buying your food direct.
As you look for fruits and vegetables, especially now at [...]

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“Champagne wishes and caviar dreams…” Robin Leach’s signature phrase at the end of the show “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” gone, but not forgotten (not by all of us – the show was on from 1984-95). I like to think of the now defunct idea of “rich and famous” being [...]

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At various points during this series, I’ll post about issues surrounding food and agriculture to offer a more complete picture of the problems (and solutions) related to our current food system. Today, we’re going to talk about hormones.
We all have hormones – humans and all other animals. These chemicals are produced naturally in our [...]

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In the past two weeks, we’ve talked about sustainable and organic food, as well as industrial agriculture and factory farming in our Guide to Good Food. This week, we’re going to compare sustainable with industrial so you can see a side-by-side difference.
In general, the biggest differences between sustainable and industrial farms are the size [...]

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Last week we talked about sustainable and organic, and the difference between the two. This week, we’re going to delve into the real issue – factory farming and industrial agriculture. The differences between sustainable and organic aren’t as big when you compare them to industrial food production.
Factory farming and industrial agriculture are unsustainable [...]

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Thinking about the holidays but not sure how you’re going to decorate? How about printing out our Meatrix holiday ornaments and hanging them on your tree! All you need is a color printer and some paper clips – and wah-la! Beautiful tree ornaments. Laminate them to use year after year or [...]

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Welcome to the July newsletter for Sustainable Table & The Meatrix! Please feel free to send any feedback or ideas for future newsletters to info@sustainabletable.org.

Feature Article – More Outdoor Cooking, the Sustainable Table Way
Featured Event – Slow Food Nation, Aug 29th – Sept 1st
Special [...]

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“Sustainable Planet™ is a film festival that promotes sustainable development. It is the first platform where moviemakers can meet with for-profit and non-profit organizations in order to watch movies and discuss sustainable solutions in an entertaining way. Films to screen come from India, Belgium, the USA, Haiti, Lebanon, Germany, Australia, and Brazil and showcase community [...]

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This article was written by Sea Stachura from Minnesota Public Radio (June 27, 2008)
A battle is underway for the hearts and stomachs of meat eaters and, it’s taking place on YouTube.
The video to video debate is between animal protection groups and the National Pork Board. Both sides see the most trafficked entertainment Web site as [...]

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Just in – Sustainable Table will be hosting a campfire cookout with Farm Aid on Saturday, June 14th, at the Bonnaroo music festival – we’ve named it the Bonnaroo Barbe-roo. We’ll be having it at the Farm Aid campsite. Unfortunately, we can’t have it open to the public, but if you’re going to be at [...]

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