Organizations We Like!
Allergy Kids
Universal Food Allergy Awareness
AllergyKids designed the universal symbol for food allergies as seen on our products and around the world to help identify and protect the millions of children with food allergies.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - A Year of Food Life
Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this book (released May 2007) tells the story of how the Kingsolver family was changed by one year of deliberately eating food produced in the place where they live.
Beyond Pesticides
National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
Beyond Pesticides works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides.
Center for Food Safety uses multifaceted strategies, including legal actions, submission of policy comments and public education, to accomplish its goals of curtailing industrial agricultural production methods that harm human health and the environment, and promoting sustainable alternatives.
Center of Science in the Public Interest
Food Additives Guide
CSPI has been a strong advocate for nutrition and health, food safety, alcohol policy, and sound science. Check out their great online Food Additives Guide.
Change.org aims to address this need by serving as the central platform informing and empowering movements for social change around the most important issues of our time. One of their issues is Sustainable Food.
Join Chef Ann Cooper on her mission to change the way our children are eating. Together, you’ll tackle outdated district spending policies, commodity-based food service organizations, political platforms with no mention of school food or child health — and ultimately the USDA — to ensure that kids everywhere have wholesome, nutritious, delicious food at school.
Civil Eats promotes critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems as part of building economically and socially just communities. In our efforts, we support the development of a dialog among local and national leaders about the American food system, and its effects abroad.
Consumers Union
Nonprofit Publisher of Consumer Reports
Consumers Union’s food safety efforts seek to focus public attention on food safety risks and regulatory deficiencies that can result in harm to the public. You can take action on food safety by visiting their sister site, www.notinmyfood.org.
Eat Well Guide
Local, Sustainable, Organic Food
Eat Well Guide is a free, online directory of family farms, restaurants, food co-ops, farmers markets and other purveyors of local, sustainably produced food in the U.S. and Canada.
Farm Sanctuary
Rescue. Education. Advocacy.
Works to end cruelty to farm animals and promotes compassionate living through rescue, education and advocacy.
Food & Water Watch protects our essential resources by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink and by helping people to take action to make a difference. Food & Water Watch is a non-profit organization working with grassroots organizations around the world to create an economically and environmentally viable future.
A Blog by Marion Nestle, author and professor in Food Studies, Public Health, and Sociology focusing on how science and society influence dietary advice and practice.
Food, Inc.
You’ll never look at dinner the same way!
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer.
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Where Global and Local Meet Sustainability
IATP advocates for fair trade policies that promote strong health standards, labor and human rights, the environment and, most fundamentally, democratic institutions. We are developing alternative economic models that include clean sources of energy, working to stop the overuse of antibiotics an agriculture and aquaculture, and monitoring the impact of genetically engineered crops on the environment, human health, and farmer income.
KidsSafe Seafood
The Healthiest Fish in the Sea
KidSafe Seafood is a collaborative effort of chefs, pediatricians, and sustainable seafood experts to help parents serve more nutritious seafood to their children. Their goal is to provide the best information available about how to make ocean-friendly seafood choices while avoiding the mercury and PCBs that can be found in fish.
Local Harvest
Real Food, Real Farmers, Real Communities
Find locally grown produce anywhere in the country! Use our map to locate farmers markets, family farms, CSAs, farm stands, and u-pick produce in your neighborhood.
Kitchen Window commentaries on food and entertaining are published every Wednesday and features recipes and informational articles.
In this groundbreaking book, author Michael Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us—industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves—from the source to a final meal, and in the process develops a definitive account of the American way of eating.
The Organic Center's unique mission is to advance verifiable scientific research behind the health and environmental benefits of organic foods, and to communicate those benefits to the public.
Organic Consumers Association
Campaigning for Health, Justice, Sustainability, Peace, and Democracy
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. We are the only organization in the US focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests of the nation's estimated 50 million organic and socially responsible consumers.
Sage Spoonfuls provides parents with all the tools they need to make homemade baby food with ease. It is a complete grab-and-go system for today's busy parents. Instead of piecing a system together, Sage Spoonfuls provides everything you need in one convenient package. All products are BPA free and made with non-toxic materials. Plus, Sage Spoonfuls' baby food storage system is Made in the USA!
Seafood can play an important role in a balanced diet. Overall seafood is very healthy for us, though in some cases we can risk exposure to harmful levels of toxins when certain types of seafood are eaten frequently. By using the Seafood Watch’s downloadable pocket guides, you can find seafood that is healthy and sustainable for your family and the environment.
Sustainable Table
Serving Up Healthy Food Choices
Sustainable Table celebrates local sustainable food, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food.
The Edible Schoolyard is a kitchen and garden classroom model that teaches the connections between food health and the environment through hands-on activities.
The Ethicurean
Chew the Right Thing.
The Ethicurean has been a leader, churning out hard-hitting stories on food policy, food safety and the models for improving the food system. Featuring the writing of editor Bonnie Powell, Elanor Starmer and others, the newly redesigned site has also come to be known as the place to catch up on the weekly food policy news via their well-sourced digest. Check out Powell’s recent look at the allotment system in Britain.
The Good Guide
Find Safe, Green and Healthy Products
The Good Guide provides the a great source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the specific products in your home. Their “Issues” is a great place to learn from experts and get more important food focused information.
The New York Times
Dining and Wine
Under the New York Times, the Dining & Wine page offers restaurant reviews and recommendations, weekly recipes, and the latest news and video about restaurants, chefs, and food.
Union of Concerned Scientists
Citizen and Scientists for Environmental Science
Sustainable agriculture practices can protect the environment and produce high-quality, safe, and affordable food. Our goal is to promote such practices while eliminating harmful CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) and strengthening government oversight of genetically engineered food.
Vital Choice is the trusted source for fast home delivery of the world’s finest wild seafood and fine organic fare – healthful “real” foods that are among the purest foods on the planet – always sustainably harvested from healthy, well-managed wild fisheries and organic farms. All our products are recognized for their superior taste and health benefits, and are endorsed by respected health and wellness experts, including physicians specializing in nutrition, pediatrics, and integrative health care.
A rich and searchable database designed to make the public problem of pesticide exposure visible and more understandable. Building on a 27-year tradition of pesticide science, this project of Pesticide Action Network (PAN) will equip you with all the information you need to take action on pesticides.
