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  Ramps at Risk: Is Overforaging a Problem?

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  Sustainable Food: [caption id="attachment_48828" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Ramps were responsible for the naming of Chicago"][/caption] Ramp season is of

  

  Christina Filipovic • April 30 • 0

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  New Foraging App for Adventurous Eaters

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  Sustainable Food: [caption id="attachment_48731" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="As locally grown, foraged food becomes increasingly trendy, plants like wild ra

  

  Christina Filipovic • April 27 • 0

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  House Bill 589: The Breakdown

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  Sustainable Food: Nothing is more distasteful than shady business practices, except maybe shady business practices that seek protection by state and federal laws. HF5

  

  Keri Marion • April 02 • 2

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  Millions Against Monsanto March, Washington DC March 26

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  Sustainable Food: Consumers deserve a choice of whether or not to purchase genetically modified foods. Monsanto says that we have that choice: simply buy organic. But

  

  Keri Marion • March 22 • 0

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  Ownership of Product vs. Food

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  Sustainable Food: Those that own the food, own the people. Most of us understand the dangers in patenting staple seed crops like corn, wheat, soy, alfalfa however, I s

  

  Keri Marion • March 16 • 0

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  Food: A Project Envision Documentary

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  Sustainable Food: This little documentary is only about a half hour long, but it does brush across the general scope of the problem of industrial food in the United St

  

  Keri Marion • March 01 • 0

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  PLU Codes Are More Than Just Numbers

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  Sustainable Food: Have you ever wondered what all those numbers on the produce stickers actually mean? I had always thought they were just codes for the grocer to conn

  

  Keri Marion • February 27 • 1

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  Effects Of Glyphosate

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  Sustainable Food: Glyphosate is the primary ingredient to Monsanto's best selling herbicide, RoundUp. Conveniently and somehow without status of a monopoly, Monsanto a

  

  Keri Marion • February 22 • 0

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  USDA's National Organic Program And GMOs

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  Sustainable Food: In a somewhat recent interview with Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator for the USDA's National Organic Program, he made a couple interesting, but equ

  

  Keri Marion • February 20 • 0

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  Equal Exchange: Fair Trade Is A Movement, Not A Brand

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  Sustainable Food: (Rodney North, The Answer Man, employee-owner, & former Board Vice-Chair at Equal Exchange will be speaking at the Certification, Consumption, and Ch

  

  Keri Marion • February 19 • 3

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  The Ripple Effect Of Consumerism

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  Sustainable Food: In our economy, every single action we put forth reverberates globally. We all live in an enclosed system of atmosphere, soil and water. There is no

  

  Keri Marion • February 14 • 0

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  Baby Steps To Sustainability

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  Sustainable Food: Since the mid eighteenth- century, many countries have sought to streamline daily routines into marketable little packages, to "save us time" that we

  

  Keri Marion • February 14 • 1

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  The Importance Of Organics

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  Sustainable Food: Over the last few months I have been spending a lot of time defending the reasons why we should purchase organically grown food over "conventionally"

  

  Keri Marion • February 13 • 0

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  GMOs And Organics: A Potentially Complicated Relationship

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  Sustainable Food: So now that our government has completely deregulated genetically modified alfalfa, and as both studies and case reports have shown that cross-contam

  

  Keri Marion • February 12 • 18

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  Can Biotech Companies Provide Sustainable Food Options?

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  Sustainable Food: Pesticides and herbicides are poisons, no matter how a person wants to slice it. So far, biotech companies have instituted two major forms of genetic

  

  Keri Marion • February 05 • 4

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  Considering Past Pesticide Use for a Sustainable Future

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  Sustainable Food: The biotech industry wants us to believe that their products maintain "sustainable and environmentally-conscious agricultural practices." They claim

  

  Keri Marion • February 05 • 0

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  GM Alfalfa Backlash

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  Sustainable Food: The deregulation of RoundUp-Ready alfalfa brought with it a hurricane of outrage from food advocates all over the country. The subject was debated an

  

  Keri Marion • February 02 • 0

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  Step By Step Sustainable Food

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  Sustainable Food: If we can think of sustainability as a measure of making a number of small, capitalizing changes in our current lives (despite perceptions of how sus

  

  Keri Marion • January 31 • 0

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  GM Alfalfa Deregulated: Our Responsibility

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  Sustainable Food: Continued from Part One: GM Alfalfa Deregulated: An Organic Farm Responds /> It is possible, then, to consider using alfalfa that is not held to seed

  

  Keri Marion • January 28 • 1

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  GM Alfalfa Deregulted: An Organic Farm Responds

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  Sustainable Food: "After conducting a thorough and transparent examination of alfalfa through a multi-alternative environmental impact statement (EIS) and several publ

  

  Keri Marion • January 28 • 0

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