If "you are what you eat", how can you make simple changes in your diet to get a boost in all aspects of your life? Get easy to follow advice from experts.
Chemicals, hormones and pesticides. Sound yummy? These are all things that can be found in regular food. Michel Nischan breaks down the principles of organically grown food and why it's better for your health.
Touted as the largest celebration of food in America. Slow Food USA's subsidiary Slow Food Nation, was created to organize the first-ever American collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable food movement and introduce thousands of people to food that is good, clean and fair.
The first annual event of Slow Food Nation takes place on Labor Day 2008 in San Francisco (August 29th - September 1st).
Slow Food Nation is dedicated to creating a framework for deeper environmental connection to our food and aims to inspire and empower Americans to build a food system that is sustainable, healthy and delicious.
Slow Food USA is a part of the International Slow Food Movement.
August 1, 2008 - Going organic: Movement taking root as prices, awareness rise
LaReeca Rucker
lrucker@jackson.gannett.com
He draws a picture of a bicycle and writes the words "Self-reliance is patriotic" every weekend on a large door at the Starkville Community Market where produce and fruit is sold.
Owners of the Lafayette Street business allow the public to paint messages on the door, and Mississippi State University student Ryan Storment, 23, is eager to share his ideas about environmental sustainability.
Storment has given up driving and now bikes everywhere he goes. He's also gone organic.
According to the Organic Trade Association, U.S. sales of organic foods and beverages grew from $1 billion in 1990 to an estimated $20 billion in 2007, and are projected to reach nearly $23 billion in 2008. Organic food sales are expected to increase an average of 18 percent each year from 2007 to 2010.
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