These are both sources and recommended readings. If you have any suggestions not listed here, please send them via the contact form and include all pertinent information. Thank you!
Books
Health, eating, politics, and chemicals- The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating
Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon - The Crazy Makers
Carol Simontacchi - The End of Food: How the food industry is destroying our food supply — and what you can do about it
Thomas F. Pawlick - Food Fight: The Inside Story of the Food Industry, America's Obesity Crisis & What We Can Do About It
Kelly Brownell, Katherine Battle Horgen - Food Politics
Marion Nestle - The Hundred-Year Lie: How food and medicine are destroying your health
Randall Fitzgerald - The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan - What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating
Marion Nestle
Websites
Sustainability and local food- 100 Mile Diet
"Local Eating for Global Change" - Eat Local Challenge
Group blog; benefits of eating locally-grown food - Eat Well Guide
"The easiest and most comprehensive way for you to find wholesome, fresh, sustainable food in the US and Canada" - FarmFolk/CityFolk Society
"Farm & city working together to cultivate a local, sustainable food system" - Harvestin' the County
Ontario, Canada's Prince Edward County-based community site on eating local - Seed Savers
Seed saving and sharing - "Seeds of the world to be conserved on Svalbard"
About the planned Norwegian seed vault - Slow Food
Bringing back local food traditions and the love of food - Sustainable Table
Sustainable food movement, food-related issues, community-building through food - WorldChanging
"Tools, models and ideas for building a bright green future"
Organic food information & brands
- Grocery Store Wars
Join the Organic Rebellion. An informative pastiche of Star Wars and information on organics - Organic Valley Farms
Informative site plus products and recipes - Seeds of Change
Tips on growing organic; product info
Animal welfare and the meat industry
- The Meatrix Films
Animated exposés on the meat industry, as a pastiche of The Matrix trilogy
Food security
- Bridging Borders Toward Food Security
Annual conference on food security issues
Health — toxicity
- Guide to Less Toxic Products
Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia - The Hundred-Year Lie
Website of author Randall Fitzgerald (see above, in books) - Toxic Nation
How to avoid and get rid of the pollution that has accumulated in our bodies - Politically Incorrect: The Neglected Nutritional Research of Dr. Weston Price, DDS
The truth behind diets, diseases, and medicines - Seventh Generation
"The nation's leading brand of non-toxic and environmentally safe household products"
