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Thanks to all our soldiers and veterans out there! We truly appreciate all of your hard work.
The groups Operation Free and Vets Vote are working to increase clean energy and in turn decrease the need for foreign oil, aid in national security and help fight climate change. I very respectable cause from some of America's most respected citizens.
Source: switchboard.nrdc.org
Another Veterans' Day is upon us, a time to reflect on our armed servicemen and women who are stationed around the world to protect us. Many of these brave soldiers, sailors and marines have spent ...

Sustainable Table The Pacific Ocean's ever expanding island of trash.
Source: www.nytimes.com
A garbage patch in the Pacific is one of five that may be caught in giant gyres scattered in the world’s oceans.

Sustainable Table Nicholas Kristof's op-ed in the NYTimes on BPA is getting lots of attention today. Maybe since it's the most popular blogged article in the NYTimes, it will get some attention, right? Just kidding, but those government officials need to get moving on the ban on BPA.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Bisphenol A, or BPA, is linked to things like cancer, obesity, attention deficit disorder and genital abnormalities, and it’s been found in our food.

Daphne Oz is a graduate of Princeton University and author of The Dorm Room Diet, a national bestseller that helps college students create healthy eating habits. Her father Mehmet Oz is a cardiac surgeon, talk show host and acclaimed author...

Sustainable Table Marion Nestle explains (again) why a vegetarian diet is perfectly healthy. I am amazed that people still believe that you need meat to get protein. I still have friends who don't know what else you can get if from. Amazing.
Source: www.foodpolitics.com
I can’t believe the number of times I have been asked that question but it has just come up again in the context of recent complaints about the health and environmental hazards of eating meat. So ...

One of the most popular food trends in the past year or two has been local food. So why is eating local all the rage, and what can you do to be part of this growing movement? What is local? We need to start by defining the word local...

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? ...

Tomorrow is full of online chats about sustainable agriculture – the first hosted by the USDA at 3pm (Eastern) with Kathleen Merrigan and the second hosted by Take Part featuring Gary Hirshberg at 9pm (Eastern). Thursday at 3 p.m. ...

Sustainable Table More on the White House front - Iron Chef is challenging executive chef Cristeta Comerford to a fresh food cook-off. Michelle Obama reveals the secret ingredient.
Source: www.nytimes.com
At the White House, politics, cooking and popular culture collide.

Sustainable Table Great article on White House chef Sam Kass. Not only is he cute, but he's way into local food, school nutrition and helping Michelle Obama in her crusade for healthy, fair food.
Source: www.nytimes.com
When Sam Kass is not grilling fish for the first family, he is pondering the details of child nutrition legislation, funding streams for the school lunch program and the best tactics to fight childhood obesity.

Sustainable Table Two more deaths from E. Coli. Very sad that Big Beef is getting away with this.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Two people, one from New Hampshire and another from upstate New York, have died after eating ground beef that may be responsible for an E. coli outbreak.

From our friends at Healthy Monday… There seems to be a lot of chatter lately about the nutritional value of meatless meals. While some agree limiting meat is a healthy choice, others worry that plant-based fare won’t provide adequate protein. Tr...

Sustainable Table Great review of Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, "Eating Animals" in The New Yorker. I'll have to check this one out, although I'm not sure I'll agree with all his points. Has anyone out there read it yet?
Source: www.newyorker.com
BOOKS review of “Eating Animals” (Little, Brown; $25.99) by Jonathan Safran Foer. American love animals. Americans also love to eat animals. How is it that Americans, so solicitous of the ...

Sustainable Table For all you grass-fed beef lovers out there, Nicolette Hahn Niman's response to recent reports linking meat production and climate change.
Source: www.nytimes.com
Singling out meat-eating as harmful to the environment is overly simplistic. Encouraging judicious choices for all types of food is a better approach.

Sustainable Table The Economist pointing out that we are one of the most dangerous developed nations to eat in. What great press for the U.S.
Source: www.economist.com
Bar codes that let shoppers trace their food back to the field























