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Food In Real Life →

Preaching truth to packaging. Pictures of packaged food, cooked to specifications, compared to the photo on the box.

Smart Choices Program Helps Shoppers Identify Food and Beverage Choices →

This first-ever uniform front-of-pack nutrition labeling program, developed by a diverse coalition of scientists, nutritionists, consumer organizations and food industry leaders is designed to promote public health by helping shoppers make smarter food and beverage choices within product categories.

Here's the Meat of the Problem →

It’s not simply that meat is a contributor to global warming; it’s that it is a huge contributor. Larger, by a significant margin, than the global transportation sector.

Ezra Klein, ch–ch–ch–check it out. I also love this — Switching to a vegan diet would have a bigger impact than trading in your gas guzzler for a Prius (link to a .pdf file.)

You Are What You Eat →

[…] if the aphorism holds true—if we really are what we eat—then refrigerators are like windows into our souls.

Mark Menjivar made a collection of photographs of strangers’ refrigerators exploring the “you are what you eat” saying. Really interesting stuff.

Don't Buy Any Food You've Ever Seen Advertised →

The real food is not being advertised. And that’s really all you need to know.

Awesome interview, and not in a good way, it will definitely come as a reality check to some (in respect to the recent swine flu epidemic). Please share this link with anyone you know who thinks there’s nothing wrong with what and how we eat.

Does Being Vegan Cost More Money? →

I think the idea that being vegan is more expensive comes from the fact that many people think going from a meat-centered diet to a plant-based one means you have to “replace” your meat with Tofurky and Morningstar Farms. Or that you have to shop exclusively at Whole Paycheck (aka Whole Foods).

Good pointers on how to reduce the amount of money you spend on food from Vegans of Color.

Do you find being vegan/vegetarian/healthy eater more expensive?

Graze — Nature Delivered →

Graze boxes are always: nutritionally balanced, personalized to your tastes, delivered to your desk

This is an awesome concept, I’d definitely at least try it out if I would be able to (they are UK only.)

Ethical Meat vs. Meat Hype: A Look at “All Natural”, “Grass-Fed” and Other Half-Truths →

I’ve come to realize that, if conscious eating — knowing where your food comes from and how it’s both raised and killed or harvested — is the key to ethical eating, labels are the new battleground for your mind and dollars…

Tim Ferriss — author of the bestseller “The Four Hour Workweek” — on his views about ethical eating and labeling systems.

10 Ways to Support a Sustainable Urban Food System through Politics and Participation in the Food Economy →

It seems hard to change our eating habits and just consume food out of convenience; “because it’s there”, but once you start paying attention to what you eat, you will realize why you need to, and why you need to let others know what they are eating as well. These are 10 awesome tips from Jen Dalton to get you started.

Thanks to @abundanceleague for the tip.