Public Health and Social Jusitce

Food Safety Issues

food.jpgArticles 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/