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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle_ A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver [183]

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www.newfarm.org

Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming (UK)

94 White Lion St., London N1 9PF, UK

www.sustainweb.org

The International Institute for Ecological Agriculture

PO Box 1882, Soquel CA 95073

www.permaculture.com

Organic Farming Research Foundation

PO Box 440, Santa Cruz CA 95061

www.ofrf.org

City Farmer—Canada’s Office of Urban Agriculture

Box 74567, Kitsilano RPO, Vancouver, BC V6K 4P4, Canada

www.cityfarmer.org

American Community Gardening Association

1777 East Broad St., Columbus OH 43203

www.communitygarden.org

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

The U.S. Department of Agriculture

1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington DC 20250

www.usda.gov

The National Agricultural Statistics Service

1400 Independence Ave. SW, Washington DC 20250

www.nass.usda.gov

USDA Economic Research Service

1800 M St. NW, Washington DC 20036-5831

www.ers.usda.gov

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration

5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville MD 20857-0001

www.fda.gov

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy

www.fao.org

National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation

1111 South Mason St., Fort Collins CO 80521-4500 Conserves genetic resources of crops and animals important to U.S. agriculture.

www.ars-grin.gov/ncgrp/index.htm

The National Agricultural Library (NAL)

Abraham Lincoln Building, 10301 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville MD 20705-2351

www.nal.usda.gov

FOOD POLICY, CONSUMER AND ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA)

Public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability.

6771 South Silver Hill Dr., Finland MN 55603

www.organicconsumers.org

GrassRoots Action Center for the Environment

The GRACE Factory Farm Project

215 Lexington Ave., Suite 1001, New York NY 10016

www.factoryfarm.org

The Center for Food Safety

660 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, #302, Washington DC 20003

Challenging harmful food production and promoting sustainable alternatives.

www.centerforfoodsafety.org

CropChoice

PO Box 33811, Washington DC 20033

Alternative news and information source for American farmers and consumers.

www.cropchoice.com

The Food Trust

1201 Chestnut St., 4th Fl., Philadelphia PA 19107

Works to increase access to affordable and nutritious food.

www.thefoodtrust.org

American Society for Nutrition

9650 Rockville Pike, Suite L-4500, Bethesda MD 20814

www.nutrition.org

Pesticide Action Network North America

49 Powell St., Suite 500, San Francisco CA 94102

www.panna.org

Union of Concerned Scientists

2 Brattle Sq., Cambridge MA 02238–9105

www.ucsusa.org

International Food Policy Research Institute

2033 K St. NW, Washington DC 20006-1002

www.ifpri.org

The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First

398 60th St., Oakland CA 94618

www.foodfirst.org

The True Food Network

2601 Mission St., Suite 803, San Francisco CA 94110

Dedicated to stopping the genetic engineering of our food.

www.truefoodnow.org

SIDEBAR RESOURCES


Other Web sources are included in the sidebars. More comprehensive resources can be found on our Web site: www.animalvegetablemiracle.com.

OILY FOOD

David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel, and Marianne Karpenstein-Machan, “Energy Use in Agriculture: An Overview,” dspace.library.cornell.edu/ bitstream/1813/118/3/Energy.PDF.

Richard Manning, “The Oil We Eat,” Harper’s Magazine, February 2004, www.harpers.org/TheOilWeEat.html.

U.S. Energy Information Administration: www.eia.doe.gov/.

HUNGRY WORLD

Thalif Deen, “Tied Aid Strangling Nations, Says U.N.,” Inter Press Service News Agency 2004, www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=24509.

Celia W. Dugger, “Supermarket Giants Crush Central American Farmers,” New York Times, December 28, 2004, www.organicconsumers.org/corp/walmartca122804.cfm.

Sophia Murphy and Kathy McAfee, U.S. Food Aid: Time to Get It Right, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: Trade and Global Governance Program, July 2005, www.tradeobservatory.org/library.cfm?refid =73512.

Vandana Shiva, “Force-Feeding GMOs to the Poor,” www.organiccon sumers.org/ge/poor.cfm.

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