food to fork

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LEARN: For an introduction to the facts, read these factsheets published by the Student Action with Farmworkers.
· READ: Check out our Triple Pundit series on the business of sustainable agriculture.
· WATCH: Watch the Fair Food Project documentary (15 min).
· JOIN: Find out if there’s a chapter of the Student/Farmworker Alliance, Student Action with Farmworkers, the Real Food Challenge, aaaand so forth.

Just got an email about nat'l farmworker awareness week. amazing to think how often we eat things without considering how it got to us. There's so much more to a tomato now than what we put on our salads and sandwiches. I've been taking this Environmental Health class and we watched Food, Inc. (love that documentary!) and I'm doing a research study on sustainable fisheries, so I've been thinking a lot about food and what it is that we are really supporting here. And growing my own stuff as much as I can or buying locally(though living in a city is limiting...)I wonder how much of a difference we can make... I wonder if we can change the agri industry... hmm. If the only vote we have is through our consumerism, I'd say that's a pretty good amount of power.
Here's another interesting article from national geographic about sustainable agriculture.