Food Articles

Burgers à la Thomas Jefferson - Orion, May/June 2007. Interview with Tod Murphy, founder of Farmers Diner in Quechee, VT. Sustainable restaurant offering food from within 70 miles, hand towels in bathroom, supports enforcing Shermon Antitrust Act of 1890 and 1935 National Labor Relations Act, creates healthy community relationships.
Community Food Security Coalition
National farm to school and national farm to college program. They help schools, colleges, and other institutions work with local farmers to improve and expand the fresh and nutritional options in the cafeterias and other campus food.

Danby (Vermont) woman is growing lemons and limes in a greenhouse surrounded by snow, The Associated Press, 1 April 2001, link from VCE. Annette Smith grows lemons, limes, tangerines, apricots, peaches year round in her greenhouse. She is also founder and executive director of Vermonters for a Clean Environment (VCE).

'Farm Raisers' Make Cents for Schools - Michigan Land Use Institute 20 August 2006. Michigan school fundraiser with local cherry orchard. Healthy alternative to magazine sales.

The Hundred-Mile Diet - The Nation, 23 August 2007.

Is Organic Food Worth It?, National Resource Defense Council This Green Life article, April 2007.

Squandering Miracles, PennFuture's article, 7 March 2007. Read the problems of buying antibiotic fed livestock. The American livestock industry uses 70% of all antibiotics manufactured. The European Union and Australia have bans on feeding antibiotics to healthy livestock but not here. Factory farms oppose measures by the American Medical Association and World Health Organization to ban the use of antibiotics in healthy animals. Using low doses of antibiotics in healthy animals increases the risk of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in food, air, and soil.

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