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1: Food Security: Diet, Health, Food Production & the Environment
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| Session 1 | Overview and Conceptual Framework for the Course (Lawrence and Walker) |
Rome Declaration on World Food Security World Scientists' Warning to Humanity Resources on Local Food and Community Food Security Six Arguments for a Greener Diet Rio Declaration on Environment and Development Household Food Security in the U.S. How Sustainable Agriculture can Address the Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture. Food Production, Population Growth, and the Environment. Potential effects of the next billion hamburgers sold by McDonald's. Organic Diets Significantly Lower Children's Dietary Exposure to Organophosphorus Pesticides.
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2:
An Ecological Perspective: Food Production and the Environment
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| Session 2 | A Brief History of Agriculture and Food Production; The Rise of Industrial Agriculture (McKenzie) |
The Nutrition Transition: Diet and Disease in the Developing World Agriculture: A Legacy of Land and People Environmental and Economic Costs of the Application of Pesticides Reducing Water Pollution from Animal Feeding Operations External Costs of Agricultural Production in the United States |
| Session 3 | What Does Agriculture have to do with Public Health? (Kirschenmann) | Losing the Links Between Livestock and Land. |
| Session 4 | Ecology, Agriculture and a "Green-Green" Revolution (Wolman) | |
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3:
Public Health, Environmental, and Social Implications of Industrial Animal Production
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| Session 5 | IAP: Overview; Health and Environmental Impacts (Silbergeld, Graham) |
Precautionary Moratorium on New Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Airborne Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Isolated from a Concentrated Swine Feeding Operation The Meatrix and The Meatrix II web animations |
| Session 6 | Aquaculture: IAP in the Sea (Broughton) |
Chinabut S, Somsiri T, Limsuwan C, Lewis S. Problems associated with shellfish farming. Revue scientifique et technique de l'Office international des Epizooties 2006;25:627-635. Pauly D, et al. Fishing down marine food webs. Science 1998;279:860-863. Blue Ocean Institute Guide to Seafood |
| Session 7 | Occupational, Community and Social Impacts; Real Communities, Real People (Silbergeld, Chapin-Sapkota) |
Environmental Injustice in NC Hog Industry Inside a Poultry Processing Plant: An Ethnographic Portrait, Labor History 43:3 August 2002. Chapters 6 and 7 of Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America Environmental Injustice and the Mississippi Hog Industry Intensive Livestock Operations, Health, and Quality of Life among Eastern North Carolina Residents |
| Session 8 | Organizing for Justice: Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance (Morison, Walker ) |
Bussel, R. Taking on "Big Chicken": Delmarva Poultry Justice Alliance. Labor Studies, 2003. Billion dollar poultry industry traces its roots back to 1923 error. |
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4:
Food Production: Economic and Policy Considerations
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| Session 9 | Eating As A Moral Act (Andrews) |
Downes, B. World Food Day, 2007. Video: The Right to Food, 2007. Ref: 2658. |
| Session 10 | Agriculture, Economic Policies and Rural Communities (Weida) |
Precautionary Moratorium on New Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations |
| Session 11 | U.S. Agricultural Policies and the Farm Bill: Where is Health? (Heller) | |
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5:
Food Consumption: Cultural And Political Considerations
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| Session 12 | Cultural and Behavioral Determinants (Mintz) | Myers , Kent . New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, 2003. |
| Session 13 | US Dietary Guidelines and DASH-style Diets (Appel) | Dietary Guidelines 2005 Executive Summary |
| Session 14 | "Food Politics": Advertising/Marketing, Budgets ( Lawrence ) |
The Sweet and Lowdown on Sugar The Ironic Politics of Obesity |
| Session 15 | Global Nutrition Transition (Caballero) |
A Nutrition Paradox: Underweight and Obesity in Developing Countries Dynamics of the Nutrition Transition Toward the Animal Foods Sector in China and its Implications Globalization, Diets and Non-Communicable Diseases Double burden of malnutrition in six case study countries The Nutrition Transition: Diet and Disease in the Developing World |
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6:
Sustainable Alternatives to the Current Food System
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| Session 16 | The Sustainable Agriculture Imperative: Methods, Benefits, Challenges and Necessity; Local Food Systems (Heller) |
Resources on Local Food and Community Food Security How Sustainable Agriculture can Address the Human Health Harms of Industrial Agriculture. Evidence-based Strategies to Build Community Food Security Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
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| Session 17 | Moving Towards A Better Food System: Inch by Inch, Row by Row, Gonna Make Some Real Food Grow (Roberts) |
City of Toronto webpage on Food Policy and the Toronto Food Policy Council McNider R and Christy J. Let the East Bloom Again. NY Times Op-Ed, 2007. |
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7: Opportunities for Public Health
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| Session 18 | Research: Water and Air Quality Around CAFOs (Chapin-Sapkota) | No Reading |
| Session 19 | Practice: Healthy Stores Projects (Gittelsohn) | Healthy Stores |
| Session 20 | Advocacy: Meatless Monday Campaign (Lerner) | Meatless Monday |
| Session 21 | Concluding Commentaries | No Reading |
