FOOD AND FARMING


agriculture, food production systems: policy making and government oversight

  • Agriculture Committee U.S. House of Representatives
  • Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry U.S. Senate
  • Food Safety U.S. Food and Drug Administration's gateway to government food safety information
  • agriculture, food production systems: public interest and advocacy organizations

  • Center for Food Safety promoting sustainable food production technology
  • Center for Rural Affairs working to strengthen small businesses, family farms and ranches, and rural communities
  • Community Food Security Coalition dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems
  • Confédération Paysanne Européenne European Farmers Coordination
  • Land Stewardship Project fosters an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities
  • Organic Consumers Association campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability
  • animal rights

  • Farm Animal Reform Movement
  • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
  • cookery and food-related periodcials, general

  • Chef Magazine professional magazine for chefs
  • Cook's Illustrated: Recipe Resource from America's Test Kitchen
  • Cooking Lignt
  • Epicurious online home of Gourmet and Bon appétit
  • Food and Wine
  • Gastronomica
  • Saveur
  • cookery and food-related periodcials, vegetarian

  • Herbivore
  • Vegetarian Journal Vegetarian Resource Group
  • Vegetarian Times Active Interest Media
  • food distribution

  • Community Supported Agriculture portal
  • Cooperative Grocer online magazine for retailers and cooperators
  • Fair Trade Federation
  • Midwest Natural Food Co-ops
  • National Coooperative Grocers Association
  • labor: agriculture and food industry unions

  • United Farmworkers Union
  • United Food and Commercial Workers Union
  • labor: union federations

  • American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Unions
  • Change to Win Coalition
  • labor: news

  • LaborNet democratic communication network for the labor movement
  • Labor Notes focusing on labor organizing as well as internal union democracy
  • LabourStart internet-based trade union news source
  • Workday Minnesota labor news from Minnesota
  • labor: government agencies

  • United States Department of Labor
  • Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
  • National Labor Relations Board
  • sustainable development, social justice

  • Food First Institute for Food and Development Policy
  • Global Exchange fair trade advocacy
  • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  • Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology based in India, founded by Vandana Shiva
  • TransFair USA fair trade certification
  • tea
    Some sources for tea, as well as teaware.

  • Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse, Boulder, Colorado
  • Camillia Sinensis, Montréal, Québec
  • Choice Organic Teas, Seattle, Washington
  • Imperial Tea Court, San Francisco, California
  • Holy Mountain Trading Company, Fairfax, California
  • Mariage frères, Paris, France
  • Norqvist, Vantaa, Finland
  • La Sociéte du Thé, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Special Teas, Stamford, Connecticut
  • Tea Source, Saint Paul, Minnesota
  • Ten Ren Tea, San Francisco, California
  • vegan and vegetarian organizations

  • American Vegan Society
  • International Vegetarian Union
  • Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
  • Vegetarian Resource Group
  • vegan products

  • Moo Shoes vegan shoes et al.
  • Pangea vegan products
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