Rock & Roll Farm

Tuesday! Mar 15 2005 // 2:49 pm //

What it Costs

The True Cost of Food, an educational movie from the Sierra Club and Free Range Graphics (the people who brought you The Meatrix).

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Price Tags/Cost Tags from CIAS (Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at U-W Madison). Here you can find PDF’s to print and distribute. Information for several types of food and drink includes food miles, genetic diversity, social and health costs, and environmental impact. Also gives suggestions for “what you can do.”

Or, you can try a similar download, Choose Local Organic Food, from MOFFA (Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance).

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In the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability:
External Costs of Agricultural Production in the United States

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The High Cost of Cheap Food John Ikerd
Published in Sustaining People through Agriculture column, Small Farm Today, July/August, 2001 issue.