The True Food Network

Food and Global Warming: The Cool Foods Campaign – a project of the Center for Food Safety and the Cornerstone Campaign – makes the connections between the foods we eat and their contribution to global warming. The aim of the Campaign is to inform people about the impact of their food choices across the entire food system. We hope to inspire a groundswell of people committed to making sustainable food choices to reduce their “FoodPrint.” Our campaign seeks solutions to the problem of global warming, and focuses on agricultural practices that can reduce and reverse this trend. Go to the Cool Foods Countdown to Copenhagen and Beyond website >>>

Genetically Engineered (GE) Crops and Foods: CFS seeks to halt the approval, commercialization or release of any new genetically engineered crops until they have been thoroughly tested and found safe for human health and the environment. CFS maintains that any foods that already contain genetically engineered ingredients must be clearly labeled. Additionally, CFS advocates the containment and reduction of existing genetically engineered crops. Go to the GE campaign page >>>

rbGH / rBST: CFS seeks to force the FDA to remove rBGH / rBST from the market through all available legal means. In 1999, CFS, joined by a number of other organizations, filed a legal petition with the FDA requesting that it remove from the market Monsanto’s rBGH / rBST (trade name Posilac). In late 2000, the FDA announced that it was denying that petition. CFS will continue applying legal pressure on this important food safety issue. Go to the rbGH page >>>

Animal Cloning: The Center for Food Safety has called on FDA to ban the use of clones in food production until the food safety and animal cruelty problems in cloning have been resolved, and until public discussions have addressed the troubling ethical issues that cloning brings. We also call on FDA, in the event that these pre-conditions can be met, to require labeling of food from animal clones. Go to the Animal Cloning page >>>

Factory Farms: In the last few decades, consolidation of food production has concentrated power in the hands of fewer and fewer corporations. Many of today’s farms are actually large industrial facilities, not family farmers with green pastures and red barns that most Americans imagine. These consolidated operations have little to no regard for the environment, animal welfare, or food safety, and often put the health of consumers and rural communities at risk for the sake of profit. Go to the Factory Farms page >>>

Food Safety: One of the greatest challenges facing our nation today is the restoration of a safe and healthy food supply. To achieve this urgently needed change requires substantial restructuring of how our government regulates food production and food safety, from the farm to the fork. CFS is working with its members and Congress to push for food safety reforms that will ensure a diverse, safe, and secure food system for future generations as well as healthy and economically vibrant rural communities that foster access to fresh, healthy, affordable food for all. Go to the Food Safety page >>>

Aquaculture: The farming of fish and seafood, often referred to as aquaculture, is the fastest growing sector of the world food production industry–and one of the fastest growing threats to our water environments and native species.  CFS is working to activate and educate federal agencies, consumers, chefs, grocers, fish retailers and legislators on the need to protect seafood consumers and our water environments from the dangers posed by existing aquaculture practices. Go to the Aquaculture page >>>

Food Irradiation: Using recent food-contamination scandals as a springboard, irradiation has been touted as the solution to food-borne illness in everything from spinach to deli meats. But a good, hard look at the systemic food and agricultural problems that cause these tragic outbreaks in the first place has yet to be undertaken by government agencies. Go to the Food Irradiation page >>>

Sewage Sludge: Every time you flush your toilet or clean a paintbrush in your sink, you may be unwittingly contributing fertilizer used to grow the food in your pantry. Beginning in the early 1990s, millions of tons of potentially-toxic sewage sludge have been applied to millions of acres of America’s farmland as food crop fertilizer. Go to the Sewage Sludge page >>>

Organic and Beyond: An historic struggle is currently raging in this country over the future of food in the 21st century. A grassroots movement for organic, ecological and humane food is now challenging the decades-long dominance of “industrial” corporate-controlled agribusiness. CFS seeks to maintain strong organic standards that live up to the quality and integrity that consumers expect from organic foods while evolving the ethic by promoting agriculture that is local, small-scale and family operated, biologically diverse, humane, and socially just. The ultimate goal of the Organic & Beyond campaign is to replace the industrial agriculture model with a new vision of farming with the natural world. Go to the Organic page >>>