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Listen to Lawrence
WOI Midday Oct. 22, 2007
High fructose corn syrup
Interviewed by Doug Cooper
Antibiotic resistance and
livestock feed
Interviewed by Doug Cooper
The Agriculture-Public Health
Connection
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Physician, environmental researcher and human rights advocate Robert Lawrence explores the linkages between health, agriculture and U.S. farm policy. His presentation focuses on the obesity epidemic, problems associated with antibiotic resistance, food security and world hunger. Lawrence is professor of environmental health sciences and founding director of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a world leader in human rights and the environment, receiving the 2002 Albert Schweitzer Humanitarianism Prize for his lifelong efforts to improve health care, human rights and the environment. Event flier [PDF] and event news release Read Lawrence's op-ed, Make the farm bill about providing healthful food, published July 18 in the Des Moines Register From the Center for a Livable Future: What does the U.S. Farm Bill have to do with public health?
Read "How sustainable
agriculture can address the environmental and human
health harms of industrial agriculture," and "A
review of animal feed ingredients and their
potential impacts on human health," both
published in Environmental Health Perspectives |
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