Transparency in the Food Industry

Once again from the good folks at Worldchanging:

No Sweat Apparel, a Boston-based start-up committed to producing sweatshop-free, 100% union-made apparel. No Sweat bills itself as the first “open source” apparel manufacturer, meaning that they openly expose and share what’s behind their product, and they invite cooperation in keeping the sources open and improving the inner-workings of those sources, to produce a better end result.

The food and clothing industries need to adopt many of the same strategies towards true transparency: disclosing origins, contents, and sourcing policies.