Tennessee Town Passes Nation's First Green Food Resolution : Tre. Image via: neilalderney123 on Flickr.com Beating out New York City, the small Tennessee town of Signal Mountain is the first in the nation to pass a Green Food Resolution. But, just what does a Green Food Resolution mean for farmers, consumers, and even the livestock themselves?
Read on to find out more. Farm Sanctuary, the organization fueling these resolutions is looking for more towns and yours just might be next.For starters, a Green Food Resolution is, "an ordinance designed to counteract the massive health and environmental damage created by large-scale factory farms and the meat industry, by encouraging local farms, plant-based diets, ecological sustainability and nutritious eating habits. " In the case of Signal Mountain, the leaders all agree that steps need to be taken to not just promote but to ensure that local, organic, plant-based food is given priority. What Does a Green Food Resolution Do? In the case of Signal Mountain, their GFR Who will pass a GFR next?
Institute » Blog Archive » ‘Evangelist’ for Organics Going Ag. The New York Times By ALLISON WINTER of Greenwire SIOUX CITY, Iowa — In the midst of sprawling corn and soybean fields, industrial animal-processing plants and ethanol refineries, Woodbury County is charting an unusual course. It’s trying to go whole-hog into organic agriculture. “This is a totally new direction for us,” said Debi Durham, president and CEO of the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce. “We are an agribusiness economy, but there is room for an alternative lifestyle.” Durham added, “Within the next 10 years, we will be known as the organic capital — of the world.” Such a prediction is almost mind-boggling, considering that the county had not one registered acre of organic farmland in the 2007 U.S. The area has moved slightly toward organics since then. By packaging tax incentives for organic farmers with aggressive promotion of locally grown food, Marqusee is trying to use family farming as an economic engine for shuttered stores on Main Street and shriveled rural school districts.
Welcome to the Green Restaurant Association. Traceability Institute - Home. The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and. Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and CO2 emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. Here, we calculate the energy content of nationwide food waste from the difference between the US food supply and the food consumed by the population. The latter was estimated using a validated mathematical model of metabolism relating body weight to the amount of food eaten. We found that US per capita food waste has progressively increased by ~50% since 1974 reaching more than 1400 kcal per person per day or 150 trillion kcal per year.
Food waste now accounts for more than one quarter of the total freshwater consumption and ~300 million barrels of oil per year. Figures Citation: Hall KD, Guo J, Dore M, Chow CC (2009) The Progressive Increase of Food Waste in America and Its Environmental Impact. Editor: Thorkild I. Received: September 8, 2009; Accepted: October 26, 2009; Published: November 25, 2009 Introduction and. Institute » Blog Archive » Giant Organic Livestock Operation.
Federal Organic Enforcement Hammer Falls Hard to Protect Farmers/Consumers WASHINGTON, DC: In an investigation and legal case that dragged on for almost four years, one of the largest organic cattle producers in the United States, Promiseland Livestock, LLC, was suspended from organic commerce, along with its owner and key employees, for four years. The penalty was part of an order issued by administrative law judge Peter Davenport in Washington, DC on November 25. Promiseland, a multimillion dollar operation with facilities in Missouri and Nebraska, including over 13,000 acres of crop land, and managing 22,000 head of beef and dairy cattle, had been accused of multiple improprieties in formal legal complaints, including not feeding organic grain to cattle, selling fraudulent organic feed and “laundering” conventional cattle as organic.
“We are pleased that justice has been served in the Promiseland matter,” said Mark A. The USDA’s decertification order can be viewed at: Food Sources. Home is Where the Food Is: 100 Mile Diet (Video) 6 Questions to Ask Before You Buy Ground Beef. Popular in Food & Drink Do you feel lucky? That was pretty much the takeaway from a recent, chilling New York Times article about E. coli and ground beef. One hard truth: If only the family of 22-year-old Minnesotan Stephanie Smith had known to ask a few simple questions of the local grocer before buying ground beef, Stephanie might not be paralyzed today.
Stephanie’s Story In the fall of 2007, Stephanie Smith was a vibrant 20-year-old children’s dance instructor who was stricken with E. coli (O157:H7) poisoning from a hamburger prepared by her mother. After exhibiting symptoms of food poisoning, she was hospitalized with severe complications. Her condition was so serious that she was placed in a coma for nine weeks to facilitate survival. She experienced kidney failure; she could only breathe with the aid of a respirator. Stephanie’s illness prompted food giant Cargill to recall 844,812 pounds of ground beef patties. Hamburger Is the Biggest Culprit Two Rules One, don’t skimp. The 6 Questions. The 7 foods experts won't eat - Healthy Living on Shine.
How healthy (or not) certain foods are-for us, for the environment-is a hotly debated topic among experts and consumers alike, and there are no easy answers. But when Prevention talked to the people at the forefront of food safety and asked them one simple question-"What foods do you avoid? "-we got some pretty interesting answers. Although these foods don't necessarily make up a "banned" list, as you head into the holidays-and all the grocery shopping that comes with it-their answers are, well, food for thought: 20 ways to feed your family for $100 a week. 1.
Canned Tomatoes The expert: Fredrick vom Saal, PhD, an endocrinologist at the University of Missouri who studies bisphenol-A The problem: The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. 14 worst health mistakes even smart women make. 2. The problem: Cattle evolved to eat grass, not grains. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Who owns organics?