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This site contains (hopefully) useful 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.is in wiki form. Please feel free to contributejoin if you havethis anythingwiki toand add.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.

The BookAuthor Michael Pollan undertakes a simple task: to find out where his food is coming from. He takes four meals (dinner a McDonald's, an organic meal purchased at Whole Foods, a meal from a family farm, and a meal he hunted himself) and attempts to go all the way back to the source to learn how they were made. What he finds is actually pretty startling. If you can read the book and still want to eat corn-fed beef, you have a stronger constitution than I do. Order "The Omnivore's Dilemma" from Amazon