Quantcast Vegetarian StarFarm To Fork

How food gets from the farm to your plate is becoming an increasingly popular topic, given the fact most conscious eaters want to know what they eat was grown under environmentally friendly conditions for the planet and farm workers and had minimum impact, if any, on animals.

The farm is also where many food education programs take children as part of an initiative to get them to eat better once they’ve become acquainted with how produce is grown and harvested.

Skinny Bitch author Rory Freedman and Jenny and Heather Goldberg of Spork Foods, a company that offers organic, vegan cooking classes in the LA area, visited a farm to learn the ins and outs of produce growing.

In between chit chatting with the “meat-eating farmer,” Freedman discusses vegan issues, such as cruelty to male chicks in the egg industry and what motivated her to give up animal products as well as environmental changes that have affected the nutrition and safety of our food.

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"Farm To Fork" Emeril Lagasse

"Farm To Fork" Emeril Lagasse

Salads get a bad rep for being boring, especially if you’re the kind to buy yours straight from the bag or at a restaurant otherwise known for carnivores that offers the skimpy selection of lettuce, tomatoes and onions.

Emeril Lagasse‘s latest cookbook, Farm To Fork, is said to incorporate the most vegetable based and vegetarian dishes yet from all of his books, and as you can tell from the title, eating more plants isn’t the only things he’s pushing.

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