Fantastic Site: Sustainable Table

I think we have blogged about this before, but I want to draw your attention to it once again.

THE SUSTAINABLE TABLE

Sustainable Table was created in 2003 by the nonprofit organization GRACE to help consumers understand the problems with our food supply and offer viable solutions and alternatives. Rather than be overwhelmed by the problems created by our industrial agricultural system, Sustainable Table celebrates the joy of food and eating.

Today’s dominant form of agriculture relies on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, large amounts of water, major transportation systems and factory-style practices for raising livestock. Industrial farming creates over-processed, over-traveled, and under-nourishing food that may contribute to health problems like obesity, diabetes and heart disease. This type of food production causes pollution and creates environmental and public health problems that cost taxpayers both money and quality of life. Sustainable Table was launched to offer consumers a choice and to show that fresh food from small, independent family farmers is still available.

I have been following them for quite a while and had the pleasure to meet Diane Hatz, the founder and Exec. Producer of the Meatrix video series.  (check out the video on the sidebar if you don’t know what this is).  Just recently, I started following them on Twitter, which introduced me to their blog: The Daily Table.  This has fantastic information about recommended summer reads and movies about food, information on school lunch programs, genetically modified foods and much, much more.

You can follow them on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/eatsustainable