Center for Informed Food Choices advocates for a diet based on whole, unprocessed, local, organically grown plant foods; their website contains a useful FAQ page about food politics and eating well, as well as an archive of relevant articles.

Eat Local Challenge is a group blog written by authors who are interested in the benefits of eating food grown and produced in their local foodshed. Spanning the United States, the group is committed to challenging themselves to eat mainly local food during a specific period of time during the year. 

Eat Well is an online directory of sustainably-raised meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs. Enter your zip code to find healthful, humane, and eco-friendly products from farms, stores, and restaurants in your area.

Eat Wild lists local suppliers for grass-fed meat and dairy products. Food Routes (www.foodroutes.org) is a national nonprofit dedicated to "reintroducing Americans to their food—the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to our tables."

Heritage Foods USA sells mail-order 'traceable' products from small farms—maple syrup, pole caught tuna, grassfed kobe beef—whose labels provide every detail about their production and processing.

Just Food works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region, through projects including City Farms (a NYC community garden program) and Community Supported Agriculture (which connects regional farmers with produce-hungry city dwellers).

Local Harvest offers a definitive and reliable nationwide directory of CSAs, farmers markets, family farms, and other local food sources.

Locavores, based in San Francisco, encourages people to eat only foods produced within a 100-mile radius of home. Their Food Web page offers a plethora of additional resources, including books, articles, and websites.

Organic Consumers Association, a research and action center for the organic and fair-trade food movement, maintains a comprehensive web archive of articles about genetically engineered foods, cloning, food safety, organics, and globalization.

Rural Roots is an Idaho organization working for healthy food and healthy communities

Seafood Watch —a program of Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources—offers a downloadable, pocket-sized region-by-region guide to eco-friendly seafood.

Slow Food USA is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to land stewardship and ecologically sound food production; to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America; and to living a slower and more harmonious life.

Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture is a hands-on educational center and restaurant that aims to demonstrate, teach and promote sustainable, community-based food production on a working farm 30 miles from Manhattan.

Sustainable Small Farms Education creates and implements educational programs to increasethe number and foster the success of sustainable small acreage farmers and ranchers in Idaho and Washington. 

Sustainable Table offers an introduction to the sustainable food movement and the issues surrounding it, plus resources for further investigation (the links for 'Introduction to Sustainability' and 'The Issues' are good places to start).

Touch the Soil is a publication based out of Idaho Falls, ID that promotes the personal and social benefits from wholesome and nutritious foods that comes to us in a sustainable and responsible manner.

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service includes a state-by-state listing of farmer’s markets across the US.

White Dog Cafe is a Philadelphia cafe known for their unusual blend of award-winning cuisine and social activism. The cafe presents numerous events throughout the year which please palates while raising consciousness.

Whole Foods Market is a leader in selling organic goods and they also are a great resource to all those food questions you might have.

Worldwatch Institutue is an independent research organization working "for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society." Their website features accessible, compelling, analytical publications—including their annual State of the World book—that address critical global issues.


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