Food Safety/Food Justice
Articles and slide shows on genetically-modified organisms, biopharming, recombinant bovine growth hormone, food irradiation, agricultural antibiotics, food justice, and sustainable agriculture.
Slide Shows:
*Bayer, Cipro, Factory Farms, and Anthrax
Slide show covering the relationship between Bayer, overuse of agricultural antibiotics, and the anthrax scare
Food Activism – brief version
Temporary file for AMSA webinar
*Food Justice
Slide show covering food production and distribution, starvation and obesity, agricultural biotechnology, and corporate commodification of agriculture from a social justice/activist perspective
Food Justice – Food Matters Conference, 2011
Temporary file for Food Matters Conference, 2011
*Genetically-Modified Organisms 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 milk and meat, breast cancer, and pink ribbons
Slide show with brief overview of health effects of rBGH and hormone use in milk and 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
Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity – Faculty Presentations: Large collection available at http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/faculty_presentations.aspx
Articles:
AAFP, corporate links, and nutritional advice
Post from Medicine and Social Justice Blog re the American Academy of Family Physicians, its unethical corporate links, and its nutritional advice
AAFP mercury tuna ad letter
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)
Food Systems Resource List – Portland, OR
List of farmers’ markets, co-ops, gardening and organic groups, etc., from Dr Maye Thompson
*Genetically-Modified Organisms and Biopharming – Z Magazine, with 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
*History and Accomplishments of Oregon PSR’s Campaign for Safe Food
Covers Campaign for Safe Food’s work from 2003-2011, in areas including opposition to biopharming and 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
*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 from Food and Water Watch, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility re APHA resolution, 2009
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
rBGH-free Dairies – Top 100
List of rBGH-free dairies (top 100)
rBGH-Free Yogurt Companies
List of rBGH-free yogurt companies and contact info
rBGH’s harmful effects on cattle
Overview of effects of rBGH on health of dairy cattle from Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Campaign for Safe Food – Rick North
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
Reproductive Health And The Industrialized Food System – Health Affairs
Article by Sutton, Wallinga, Perron, Gottlieb, Sayre, and Woodruff, 2011
Response to and Rebuttal of Elanco’s rBST Safety Assessment
A public health response to the Elanco’s rBST safety assessment
Roundup and Birth Defects – Is the Public Being Kept in the Dark?
Extensive report from Earth Open Source, 2011
Media:
Protesting Ronald McDonald. Interview for KBOO radio, February 4, 2011 (from Corporate Accountability International Protest to Retire Ronald McDonald). Available at http://kboo.fm/node/26533.
Stop predatory junk food marketing to children – protest against Ronald McDonald, Corporate Accountability International local action, Portland, OR, October, 2011. For media coverage and portion of interview, see http://www.kgw.com/home/Doctors-ask-McDonalds-to-stop-targeting-kids-132280788.html
*Food Justice (show also includes discussion of activism and medical/public health education and training). Conversations with Dr Don (cable television program), Portland, OR, July, 2011. Available at http://www.veoh.com/watch/v24892987MqXa2ySr (note: download Veoh web player, as per website, to watch full video).
List of Food Safety Organizations:
Food Safety Organizations
Compiled by Rick North, Oregon PSR Campaign for Safe Food
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/
Change.org Sustainable Food Page: http://food.change.org/
Council for Responsible Genetics – Gene Watch: http://www.gene-watch.org/
Culinary Arts Colleges Guide: http://www.culinaryartscollege.org/
EatEco: Eating Ecologically – Healthy Eating for a Healthy World: http://www.eateco.org/index.htm
Environmental Health (APHA): http://www.apha.org/advocacy/policy/policysearch/default.htm?id=1379
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
Healthy Food Action (IATP): http://www.healthyfoodaction.org/
Human Health and Industrial Farming (Pew Charitable Trusts): http://www.saveantibiotics.org/index.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/
National Environmental Health Association: http://www.neha.org/index.shtml
Nature Institute: http://natureinstitute.org/
Non-GMO Project: http://www.nongmoproject.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/
Preemption and Movement Building in Public Health: http://www.preemptionwatch.org/
Rodale Institute: http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/home
Testbiotech (EU GE plant database): http://www.testbiotech.de/en/database
True Cost of Food (Sierra Club Video): http://www.truecostoffood.org/
Union of Concerned Scientists’ Food and Agriculture Program: http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/
Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity: http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/