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Handouts - Sustainable Food Basics

Do you want to do something positive to help promote sustainable food, save family farms, and let others know about the problems and solutions with our food supply? If so, this section is for you!

Handouts - Issues in Depth

We've taken some of our detailed Issue Pages and revamped them into convenient two-sided handouts in PDF (Adobe Reader) format. Print page one, then print page two on the back of the first page.

One of the keys to learning something new is to ask the right questions. Here is our series of questions to ask farmers and store managers about their wares along with the answers you should be listening for.

Handouts - Sustainable Dinner Party

Sharing a meal is a capital way of building community, and hosting a sustainable dinner party is the perfect way to show your interest in the issues. We offer tips and ideas for a great party that will get people talking about sustainable food.

Quick Facts

Poultry farms often sear off as much as half of a chicken's beak to prevent aggression brought on by cramped living conditions.
The transportation sector made up 28 percent of US energy conumption in 2011
65 percent of Americans say that there should be more regulation of fracking for natural gas.
On average, one large banana has a water footprint of 42 gallons.
A single margherita pizza requires 333 gallons of water, enough to fill almost ten bathtubs!
One dairy farm with 2,500 cows produces as much waste as a city with around 411,000 residents, but dairy waste goes untreated.
On average, each American directly uses more water outdoors (101 gallons per day) than indoors (69 gallons per day).
Nearly 70% of swine confinement workers suffer from a respiratory illness or irritation. 58% of workers suffer chronic bronchitis.
Health care costs associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria rise by an estimated $4 billion dollars each year.
About 40 calories of fossil fuel energy go into every calorie of feed lot beef in the US. One more reason to go Meatless Monday!
It takes 520 million MWh of electricity per year to move, treat and heat water in the U.S. this is 13% of the total U.S. electrical consumption.
Radioactive Bluefin Tuna, caught off California's coast had cesium-134 and cesium-137 in their systems.
About 50 million Americans get sick from unsafe food each year, resulting in over 100,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths.
One cotton t-shirt has a water footprint of 659 gallons.
The US's electricity generation fuel mix is Coal 45%, Natural Gas 24%, Nuclear 20%, Hydropower 6%, Other Renewable 4%, Petroleum 1%.

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