Sustainable Table

sad

Tragic and people don't seem to care!

it is all over the place...I suppose they must make money on our illnesses and our deaths...otherwise why would 'they' continue to let this be ubiquitous in our environment. Eurpope has outlawed it - I think.

I do think it's important to get B12--not everyone is a carb type and not everyone will do well without meat.

I love what Jojo Newcomb said about not considering one's own diet before they ask about others'. I can't WAIT to use that line!!

I would say if all your fruit, produce, meat and seafood can be sourced within 60 miles of where you live, you are indeed fortunate. When it comes to dining out, I eat at restaurants in my town, who fortunately source most of what they serve from within the county.

In Raleigh, NC, its easy to buy local with some of the best farmers markets in the nation nearby, many opportunities for community supported agriculture for produce, meat and seafood and a long growing season for a few plants on the porch or filling your yard with fruit bushes and trees and growing fruits and vegetables in your yard or one of the many area community gardens. Eat local. It tastes better.

Janet, where do you live? I bet you could find some local food - there's bound to be a farmers market and someone who raises chickens/eggs at least not too far away...its easier than you think...and sometimes just doing it once a week can save a lot in fossil fuels in addition to improving your health...speaking with some local chefs/restauranteurs to see if they can make small steps like local carrots or local chicken/eggs/milk...so much can be done with just a small local investment...

There was the Nobel Prize winner in econmics who won it for proving (somehow) that every decision we make is based ON MONEY...ECONOMICS... I do not know if taxing products stops people from buying them... does it? I know very poor people who are paying $5.00 a pack for cigarettes - stupid people that they are...

The government should tax soft-drinks and junk food like they tax cigarettes... they are not necessary...

can we have an organic farm bill, please?

The Chairman will be there taking a huge bite out of a red pepper. Crunch.

The secret ingrediant is alice waters...remember the one who REALLY came up with this idea

and yet, the US demonizes raw milk, which sickens fewer people than pasteurized milk every year....

found this blog posting interesting, and relevant to this topic: http://postconflicted.blogspot.com/2009/05/recent-trip-to-polyface-farms.html

like we need as much protein as our ancestors ate, who had no modern conveniences and still managed...

"There is no “need... Read More” for animal proteins at all" as quoted from the article above is only true if you don't want absolutely vibrant health.
Dr. Weston A Price discovered in the back 1930's that the only truly healthy peoples in the world ALL consumed some sort of animal food (meat, milk, bugs, seafood, etc). Those societies that were mostly vegetarian (or vegan) did not have the same vibrant health as those who ate some animal foods. They were more suseptible to dental deformities, cavities and degenerative diseases. It should also be noted that Dr. Price was hoping to find a exceptionally healthy vegan society and it was to his great dismay and surprise that none existed.
www.westonaprice.org

The issue is not that the amino acids exist in vegetable sources, but that the human body cannot properly digest and make use of them. I say this as a lacto-ovo vegetarian of 16 years who has two young children with minor digestive issues. Neither is suited to a vegetarian diet. One does the world no favors by eating oneself ill.

.don't get it -- in the biggest of big pictures, how is vegetarianism going to save the planet (or even one country) in the face of corporate agriculture, failing farm(ers), and continued commercial pesticide/herbicide production? what on earth is sustainable about that?

Encouraging oppositional, informed thinking and positive activism based on scholarly data are sustainable!

Nicolette Hahn Niman is right on the money. It is CAFOs that are the problem, and a society that is addicted to fast-food burgers.

and shame on the people who buy the stuff

I hear it all the time, "organic food is so expensive." Oh yeah, how much do you spend on cable tv every month, and how much do you spend on those plastic nails, and what's your monthly car payment? It's all about daily choices. The food industry, and politicians are creating the stuff because people buy it. It takes two to tango.