Buy local and organic. Buying seasonal, locally produced food helps in a number of ways. Most food travels 1,500 miles from "farm to fork." But buying local food drastically reduces the energy spent on food shipping. Local goods also tend to use minimal packaging, are fresher and come in more varieties. The best place to track down local food is at your local farmers' markets or through the Community Supported Agriculture Department. Farmers who grow produce organically use less fossil fuel and release fewer greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Organic farming is better for the land, for the farmers and for the consumers.
Green Food for Thought
* Healthy Eating - "Let your food be your medicine," said Hippocrates.
* Books for Healthy Eating - featuring Michael Pollan
"We're just at the beginning of something that's going to be very big. And I think if we look in our food supply in 10 or 20 years, we're going to be very surprised at how much change has come about. The problem is our current food culture is pretty lousy. You could call it the culture of fast food.
Not everyone is going to change their diet. Many people can't afford to. Many people are happy eating that way. Industrial food is not going to go away, but it's going to get smaller. As organic rises, as local rises, all these things are going to get bigger, and there will be more alternatives. I'm not arguing that there's one single kind of food chain that's going to solve all our problems. We need a great many food chains. We want to have alternatives, just so we have choice.
As people are exposed to more fresh foods, you will wake up to the beauty of well grown produce and the tastefulness of it. You will take more care with it because it's such gorgeous stuff, to treat it carelessly in the kitchen seems a crime. So you'll start cooking. And cooking real food is really the beginning of health and happiness around food. When you cook, you're not going to want to cook for yourself, you're going to want to cook for other people. So you're going to eat a meal with other people at a table. And that's the beginning of a real revolution in our culture." -Michael Pollan
Books by Michael Pollan
* In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
* The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
* The Botany of Desire:A Plant's-Eye View of the World
Video with Michael Pollan
From: TEDtalksDirector
Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma
http://www.ted.com What if human consciousness isn't the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn's clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant's-eye view. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10
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