Recommend unto me

Based on what you know of me, my listed interests, and the other communities I've joined, please recommend one or two communities you think I'd enoy reading (or personal LJs, but I'm more interested in communities at the moment).

Ethical eating?

I've been thinking about the idea of how to balance ideas about ethical eating (buying locally, being a vegetarian, eating organic) vs. ideas about legalizing food, un-doing negative weight-loss dieting programming, etc.

I *hate* talking about food in good/bad terms, and yet I have some pretty strong opinions about what it means *to me* to make good, ethical choices about where to buy my food, not eating most kinds of meat, etc. Does anyone else struggle with balancing these issues? What have you come up with? Do you worry that you're just substituting one set of "rules" about eating (i.e. traditional weight-loss diet talk) for more hip-sounding ones (macrobiotics, veganism, animal rights, whole foods, eating organic)?

I posted a slightly different version of the following in the comments at body_positive:
"I strive to eat free-range eggs and eat no meat except sea-food on occasion, and I shop for organic foods and whole foods when I'm able to. I believe in trying to buy locally, from small farms, etc. I think there is an ethical component to eating and buying food. However, I refuse to beat myself up for not always making the most ethical choices because it leads to black-and-white thinking that I find destructive. If I'm eating mostly vegetarian and eating whole foods, organic foods, free-range eggs MOST of the time, I'm being more conscious of these issues than 95 percent of Americans, and I refuse to get down on myself for not being perfect.

Certain foods are, of course, more nutrient-dense than others. But when people start judging other people in moralistic terms for what they eat, that bothers me. Of course each person should set whatever ethical eating standards s/he wants for his/herself, but making blanket statements about what *others* should/shouldn't eat gets my back up."

[modified version of this entry x-posted to body_positive]