Sustainable Cuisine

<a href="http://www.earthpledge.org/SUSCU99/wpsc9922.htm" title="White Papers: More Than Food for Thought">More Than Food for Thought</a>: &ldquo;From my perspective, sustainable agriculture is the foundation upon which sustainable cuisine rests. The issues related to sustainable agriculture &mdash; food safety, world food production (which may or may not be related to world hunger), the implications of global use of genetically modified plants, the ever-shrinking proportion of the food dollar that reaches the farmer, conventional agriculture&rsquo;s structural dependence on pesticides and herbicides, the deliberate vertical integration and consolidation of the food industry from seed to processed foods, the average number of miles food travels before being consumed, the continuing loss of prime agricultural farm land &mdash; all fall within the concept of sustainable cuisine.&rdquo;