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This site contains information to help recovering readers of The Omnivore's Dilemma(Amazon.com) locate healthy food in the Seattle area. My wife and I have been doing research and needed a place to collect our findings. I thought it might be useful for others, so here it is in wiki form. Please feel free to join this wiki and contribute.
Not Just Organic
The food I am looking for is almost certainly organic, but the term "organic" doesn't mean the same thing that it once did. The first thing I learned is that you need to be specific about what you want. I am looking for food that is:
This is often referred to as "sustainable food." Read more about sustainable food.
This site contains information to help recovering readers of The Omnivore's Dilemma(Amazon.com) locate healthy food in the Seattle area. My wife and I have been doing research and needed a place to collect our findings. I thought it might be useful for others, so here it is in wiki form. Please feel free to join this wiki and contribute.
Not Just Organic
The food I am looking for is almost certainly organic, but the term "organic" doesn't mean the same thing that it once did. The first thing I learned is that you need to be specific about what you want. I am looking for food that is:
- Free from chemical pesticides and fertilizers
Not only are they bad for you, but these chemicals often have a high carbon footprint. - Sustainably produced
Farming methods that protect the land and use minimal energy. For meat and dairy products this ideally means management-intensive grazing. - Local
Keep the distance from farm to table to a minimum. A short supply chain cuts energy use and makes it easier to verify food source and growing methods.
This is often referred to as "sustainable food." Read more about sustainable food.
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Here is a TerraPass blog post about carbon footprint of food:
http://www.terrapass.com/blog/posts/cutting-the-carbon-from-your-diet His conclusion is that an easy way to cut your carbon footprint is to eat less meat. I think that grass-fed meat is less energy-intensive than grain-fed (as one of the commenters points out), so the math is a little different if you're getting MiG beef. However, I tend to agree with his conclusion. Meat is a much less efficient form of calories - I've seen figures that estimate beef to be 125 times less efficient than grains. Put another way: an acre of land devoted to growing grains could feed 125 people; the same acre devoted to beef can feed one. With a global food crisis going on, that's pretty sobering. I think you can achieve a happy medium by devoting your meat budget to buying only pastured meats. Because this meat is more expensive, you will eat it less often, thus improving your carbon footprint. The meat you eat will also be better quality, so you'll be healthier and it will taste better. |
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