An Amazing Interactive Food Atlas

February 9th, 2010 admin

DAILYBREAD.jpg I’m worried this will keep me distracted for hours or even days. But then, it will also be highly useful to me on nearly a daily basis from now on. The USDA has created a ” Food Environment Atlas ,” which is basically a Google Map that users can manipulate to find out all kinds of things about America’s food system at both macro and micro levels, based on government data that can be mixed and matched with a click or two. Just for example, you can see…


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