Food Safety Issues
Articles and slide shows on genetically-modified organisms, biopharming, recombinant bovine growth hormone, food irradiation, agricultural antibiotics, and sustainable agriculture.
Slide Shows:
*bayer cipro factory farms
Slide show covering the relationship between Bayer, overuse of agricultural antibiotics, and the anthrax scare
GMOS and Oregon’s Measure 27 re labelling
Slide show covering genetically-modified foods and Oregon’s Measure 27 regarding labelling
*Genetically-Modified Crops and Biopharming
Comprehensive slide show covering health and environmental risks of genetically-modified organisms and biopharming
Health risks of GMOs – Institute for Responsible Technology – Dr Jeffrey Smith
Available at http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showArticle/?objectID=2177
Slide show and accompanying materials on health risks of GMOs from Institute for Responsible Technology – Dr Jeffrey Smith
Meat Production – Protect your Health and the Environment, by Rick North
Slide show from Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Campaign for Safe Food – Rick North
*rBGH, hormones in meat, breast cancer, and pink ribbons
Slide show with brief overview of health effects of rBGH and hormone use in meat production, breast cancer, and “pinkwashing”
*Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) in Milk Production
Slide show covering the health risks of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH, aka rBST)
Sustainable, Healthy Agriculture
Slide show on issues relevant to sustainable, healthy agriculture
Articles:
AAFP mercury tuna ad letter.doc
Letter to American Academy of Family Physicians protesting ad which encourages unsafe levels of tuna consumption by pregnant women in official AAFP publication on health eating
*Bottled Water: Health and Environmental Risks – Portland Tribune
Letter re costs and health and environmental risks of bottled water
*Factory Farms, Bayer, Cipro, and the Anthrax Scare – Z Magazine
Article covering the relationship between Bayer, overuse of agricultural antibiotics, and the anthrax scare
Fish and mercury key points – PSR.doc
PSR document re mercury in fish
Fish and mercury wallet card from NRDC
Levels of mercury in a variety of seafood from the Natural Resources Defense Council
*food irrad – NEJM lte & responses.doc
Letter re food irradiation (and responses)
*GMOs and Biopharming Z Magazine plus sidebars
Article on risks of genetically-modified organisms, along with brief overviews of rBGH in milk, golden rice and vitamin A deficiency, and the precautionary principle
HCWH healthy food pledge.pdf
Health Care without Harm’s Healthy Food Pledge
HCWH rBGH Position Statement.doc
Health Care without Harm’s position statement re rBGH
Impacts of Meat Production on Health, the Environment and Animal Welfare
Brochure from Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Campaign for Safe Food – Miller and North
*irradiated foods in OR schools statement.doc
PSR Position statement re irradiated foods in Oregon schools
NRDC fish walletcard.pdf
NRDC wallet card re dietary seafood safety
OR Measure 27 GMO labeling ltr of endorsement.doc
Letter of endorsement re proposed Oregon ballot measure requiring labeling of GMO foodstuffs
PSR Ltr to OPB re America’s Heartland.doc
Letter to Oregon Public Broadcasting re concerns about America’s Heartland documentary
rBGH Brochure
Brochure on recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) from Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Campaign for Safe Food
rbgh faq.doc
FAQs re rBGH from Oregon PSR
rBGH-Free Cheese Chart
List of rBGH-free cheeses and contact info for dairies
rBST Safety Assessment from Elanco
See below for rebuttal to this paper, sponsored by Elanco (current manufacturer of Posilac/rBST), presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the American Dairy Science Association®, Canadian Society of Animal Science, & American Society of Animal Science
Response to and Rebuttal of Elanco’s rBST Safety Assessment
A public health response to the Elanco’s rBST safety assessment
*Precautionary Principle.doc
Brief description of the precautionary principle
*Precautionary Avoidance of Hormone Growth Promoters in Beef and Dairy Cattle Production
Resolution approved by the American Public Health Association, 2009, by Elanor Starmer, David Wallinga, Rick North, and Martin Donohoe
Precautionary Avoidance of Hormone Growth Promoters in Beef and Dairy Cattle Production – Press Release
Press release re above resolution from the American Public Health Association, 12-09
External Links:
Agriculture and Public Health Gateway, Johns Hopkins: http://phaig.jhsph.edu/index.cfm
Ban GM Food (A Project of GM Watch): http://www.bangmfood.org/
Campaign on GE Foods: http://www.thecampaign.org/
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network: http://www.cban.ca/
Cedar Circle Farm: http://www.cedarcirclefarm.org/
Center for Food Safety: http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/index.cfm
Center for Science in the Public Interest: http://www.cspinet.org/
Council for Responsible Genetics – Gene Watch: http://www.gene-watch.org/
Family Farm Defenders: http://www.familyfarmdefenders.org/Main/HomePage
Food and Water Watch: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
Food Navigator – USA: http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/
Genetic Engineering Action Network: http://www.geaction.org/
GM Watch: http://www.lobbywatch.org:80/default.html
Humane Society of the US: http://www.hsus.org/index.html
Institute for Social Ecology: http://www.social-ecology.org/
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: http://www.iatp.org/
Institute for Responsible Technology:
http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Home/index.cfm
Keep Antibiotics Working: http://www.keepantibioticsworking.org/new/index.cfm
Local Harvest: http://www.localharvest.org/
Meatrix: http://www.themeatrix.com/
Nature Institute: http://natureinstitute.org/
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Campaign for Safe Food: http://www.psr.org/site/PageNavigator/Oregon/oregon_safefood
Pesticide Action Network of North America: http://www.panna.org/
Rodale Institute: http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/home
True Cost of Food (Sierra Club Video): http://www.truecostoffood.org/