The following is background information on panelists featured during the July 21, 2009 program, “Health Care, Food Safety, and Antibiotics:” (more…)
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Follow-Up: Health Care, Food Safety & Antibiotics
Posted on August 13, 2009
Overview: The Town Square program on Health Care, Food Safety, and Antibiotics was replete with useful information, expert commentary, and valuable presentations. Collectively, the discussions drew links between our health, antibiotics use, impacts on natural ecosystems, food animals, farming methods, pharmaceutical production, and the economic pressures faced by the farming community. Discussions further elicited ideas about what each member of the audience could do to continue to reduce antibiotic resistance and to support the farming community. (more…)
Follow Up: Agriculture and Antibiotics
Posted on July 31, 2009
The Center for Environmental Policy was very pleased to join with the Pew Environment Group on the evening of July 21 to present “Human Health, Food Safety and Antibiotics,” a special Town Square program on the use of pharmaceuticals in the production of animal-based food. A panel of four experts, moderated by Academy Vice President David Velinsky, spoke to an audience of 130 on this under-reported aspect of U.S. food production. (more…)
Made possible by the generous donations of the William Penn Foundation and the Environmental Associates of the Academy.