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Every day, more and more people are shopping smarter, eating healthier, and enjoying an abundance of fresh, locally-grown products. The website Sustainable Table was created to celebrate this fast-growing, dynamic movement, to educate consumers on food-related issues, and to help build community through food.

Today’s dominant form of agriculture relies on synthetic fertilisers and chemical pesticides, large amounts of water, major transportation systems and factory-style practices for raising livestock and crops.  Artificial hormones in milk, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, mad cow disease, and large-scale outbreaks of potentially deadly e.coli are all associated with this industrial form of food production.

Sustainable agriculture on the other hand involves food production methods that are healthy, do not harm the environment, respect workers, are humane to animals, provide fair wages to farmers, and support farming communities.  Sustainable Table promotes the positive shift toward local, small-scale sustainable farming by providing lots of interesting information ranging from why it is important to eat well to taking 3 steps to eat sustainably to shopping smarter. The site also looks closer at what sustainable agriculture means, includes a sustainability directory, covering a long list of terms  from agribusiness, GMO, pesticides and vegetarian diet to defining ‘watershed’, offers educational resources and much more.

Despite being US centred, Sustainable Table gives lots of inspiration to discover new ways to eating healthy, shopping smart, and enjoying sustainably-raised food!

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