Know Your Food

Where to Buy Healthy Food

We are constantly growing our list of recommended vendors in the United States. Our current list of recommended providers is focused on New England. If you have recommendations of vendors not on this list please email us the name, address, website (if available), food specialty (vegetables, fruit, meat) and their phone.

For more resources on where to buy foods that are most likely to carry antibiotic-free, hormone-free, GMO free, pasture-raised, grass fed and organic foods, please go to: www.localharvest.org or realorganicproject.org.

The Human microbiome in jeopardy.

Our microbes are vital to our lives, but they are in jeopardy due to various modern day factors including overuse and misuse of antibiotics and Caesarean sections.
You are what you eat

When we go to the grocery store, we go with a mission to pick up food for ourselves and our families, but too often we buy food that is tainted with antibiotics, anti-enzymatics, herbicides, pesticides and other chemicals.
How to resist antibiotic resistance

Alexander Fleming, a Scottish microbiologist focused his research on killing bacteria, thus making a discovery in 1928 that changed the world and saved lives: penicillin, the first modern day antibiotic.

A recent survey discovered that 44 percent of Americans actively try to include organic foods in their diet. Some 40 percent of U.S. consumers indicated that most or some of the food they eat is labeled as organic. As of spring 2017, about 54.83 million people purchased organic food in the United States, with more than 50 percent of U.S. consumers saying they believe organic produce is healthier than conventionally grown food.

Statistica

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

Michael Specter