Small changes can have large, lasting impacts, so join the millions of people who are now making wiser choices about the food they eat. Find out what you can do – and then go do it!

• Visit our Get Involved section for suggestions on simple actions you can take, from shopping in your supermarket to starting your own community garden.
• To find sustainable meat, dairy and eggs in your area, visit The Eat Well Guide. Our Shopping Guides section also lists other local and national directories for sustainable food.
• Learn how to cook sustainably by visiting Sustainable Kitchen, where you'll find mouth-watering recipes, sustainable cookbook reviews and articles on healthy, wholesome food.
• Read Farm Aid’s “10 Ways to Ensure Healthy Food for You and Your Family”.
• Read through as much of the Sustainable Table site as you can. You’ll find tips and ideas throughout each section. If you have a question, first visit our Frequently Asked Questions or FAQ page. If you don’t see an answer, or you would like to share something with us, please drop us a line at info@sustainabletable.org.
• Ask questions. Visit our "Questions to Ask" section for more information on how to approach sustainable producers and retailers.

For more information:

• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser. This New York Times bestselling, nonfiction book gives a thorough and accurate account of problems with today’s fast food society, including conditions on factory farms and in slaughterhouses. Excellently written and researched.
• “How Sustainable Agriculture Can Address the Environmental and Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture,” Leo Horrigan, Robert S. Lawrence, and Polly Walker, Center for a Livable Future, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Well researched and easy-to-read article on the benefits of sustainable agriculture and the problems with factory farming. Published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed journal, in May 2002.
• My Year of Meats, by Ruth Ozeki. Though fictional, this easy-to-read novel exposes the American meat industry for what it is. Ozeki uses humor to make a confusing, overwhelming issue palatable.
• The Meatrix and The Meatrix II: Revolting. For short, entertaining films on the problems with our meat and dairy supplies, watch the award-winning animated Matrix spoofs produced by Sustainable Table and Free Range Graphics.