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Discussions around sustainability of everyday eating habits
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Eating Greener

Sharing ideas around sustainable practices and behaviors around how we select foods for everyday eating.  Understanding how these decisions imact the environment around us and the communities involved.


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Counting Food Miles for the "Rich" Only?

I recently read two articles that made me reconsider counting food miles. That is purchasing only food grown locally or within 250 miles of your home.

The first described this practice as yet another way to make middle class moms feel bad about the decisions they make to feed their families. We already have to count calories, carbs, nutritional value, sugars, etc. Now we have to be concerned with how many miles our dinner table food travelled. » read more

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