|  | Highlighted Resource |  | Web App Helps Visualize Farm Bill Spending
The Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has launched the Farm Bill Budget Visualizer, an innovative web-based application that allows visual analysis of Farm Bill spending since the 2008 Farm Bill. As debate surrounding the 2012 Farm Bill becomes more urgent, the Budget Visualizer facilitates understanding of how the provisions and budgets within the farm bill tie into the nation’s public health, environmental sustainability, and other priority concerns....Read More....
| | Philippe Cousteau’s EarthEcho International launches food-focused educational resource
EarthEcho International, a leading environmental education nonprofit organization, recently unveiled What’s On Your Fork? A Campaign for Meatless Choices—a selection of free educational tools designed to help educators and students explore the environmental and community impact of daily food choices. The downloadable resource includes contributions from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, including materials adapted from the Meatless Monday campaign and Teaching the Food System—a curriculum for high school and college educators, currently under development at the Center....Read More....
| | Testing of Seafood Imported into the U.S. Is Inadequate
Finfish, shrimp, and seafood products are some of the most widely traded foods and about 85 percent of seafood consumed in the U.S. is imported. A new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that testing of imported seafood by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is inadequate for confirming its safety or identifying risks. The findings, published this month in Environmental Science and Technology, highlight deficiencies in inspection programs for imported seafood across four of the world’s largest importing bodies and show which types of aquatic animals, and from which countries, are most often failing inspection....Read More....
| | Food Day 'Teach-In' at JHSPH
 To celebrate Food Day on October 24, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future hosted a Food Day "Teach-In" that addressed a wide range of food systems-related issues such as famine, the Farm Bill, and the environmental and public health impacts of industrial food animal production....Read More....
| | Food Safety Modernization Act: Historic, Not a Quick Fix
 CLF’s Keeve Nachman, director of the Farming for the Future Program, spoke recently at the Bloomberg School’s Public Health Practice Grand Rounds with a senior adviser from the FDA, who outlined the new Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)....Read More...
| | The Problem of Hunger and the Right to Food (video available)
 Today’s world faces a nutrition crisis with a triple burden, says Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. One billion people are underfed, one billion are overfed, and millions more consume food that meets caloric needs but falls short in nutrients. In previous eras, he says, the poor were undernourished; today they are badly nourished....Read More....
| | Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Announces 17 Doctoral Fellowships for 2011–2012
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) has awarded doctoral fellowships to 17 Johns Hopkins University students for the 2011–2012 academic year. CLF’s Fellowship program was established to support outstanding doctoral students at Johns Hopkins University who are committed to the discovery and/or application of knowledge about public health challenges of current food systems, and/or about creating a healthier and more resilient food system....Read More....
| | Carl Taylor Grant Program Now Seeking Applications
The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future has announced the second year of the Carl Taylor Research and Practice Grant Program. The Carl Taylor Grants provide resources in support of Johns Hopkins University master’s degree students for innovative research or practice projects on topics relevant to the complex interrelationships among food production, diet, environment and public health. The grants are intended to help JHU master's students develop projects, and ultimately, careers, investigating topics relevant to achieving a livable future - by improving food systems and health for all while using natural resources sustainably and creating a world that future generations deserve. Grants will be awarded in amounts up to $1,500 for Master of Public Health (MPH) capstone projects or other master's degree final projects. CLF will provide funding for a maximum of 10 projects. Applications are due on November 4, 2011…Read More…
| | Peak Oil: Its Impact on Food Systems and Public Health (Just Published)
A peer-reviewed analysis in the September issue of the American Journal of Public Health focuses on peak oil and its connections with food systems and public health. The article, Peak Oil, Food Systems, and Public Health, co-authored by CLF’s Research and Policy Director, Roni Neff, PhD, and CLF Director Bob Lawrence, MD, is part of an eight article special section, Peak Petroleum and Public Health. Their analysis examines food system vulnerability to rising oil prices and the public health consequences....Read More....
| | Organic Poultry Farms Brew Profoundly Fewer Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
 Environmental Health Perspectives has published an important study showing that the removal of antibiotic use on poultry farms results, quickly and dramatically, in a reduction of antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus. The study, led by Amy Sapkota of the University of Maryland School of Public Health, investigated the impact of removing antibiotics from U.S. poultry farms by studying ten conventional and ten newly organic large-scale poultry houses in the mid-Atlantic region....Read More.....
| | Finding a fishy solution
 Earlier this summer, David Love, a microbiologist and project director with the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, began work on a demonstration aquaponics farm housed in a greenhouse at Cylburn, a nature preserve located in north-central Baltimore....Read More...
| | Bernard Rollin Speaks on Animal Pain
 Internationally renowned scholar Bernard Rollin, Ph.D. gave an engaging seminar on Animal Pain: What it is and Why it Matters at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, followed by a signing of his most recent book, Putting the Horse Before Descartes: My Life’s Work on Behalf of Animals. Dr. Rollin was invited to the School by the Center for Alternatives for Animal Testing and the Center for a Livable Future to discuss his efforts to legally mandate more humane conditions for agricultural and laboratory animals....Read More....
| | CLF Staff Contribute to Award-winning Book about Industrial Food Animal Production
A recently-released book on Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), featuring a chapter authored by CLF staff members, has won the prestigious 2011 Nautilus Gold Award for Conscious Media/Journalism/Investigative Reporting....Read More....
| | Pfizer will voluntarily suspend sale of roxarsone following results of FDA arsenic study
The FDA has announced that Pfizer Inc., will voluntarily suspend the sale of 3-Nitro (better known as the arsenical drug roxarsone) following the results of an FDA study which found elevated levels of inorganic arsenic in the livers of chicken fed roxarsone compared to a control group. The announcement of both the study results by the FDA and Pfizer’s decision to suspend the sale of roxarsone (beginning in 30 days) come after increasing pressure from both scientific and non-profit sectors calling for the FDA to ban the use of roxarsone and other arsenical-containing drugs used by the animal meat industry. Roxarsone is currently approved for use in swine, turkeys and chickens, , though roxarsone is predominately used by the broiler chicken industry....Read More....
| | Meatless Monday Project
Learn about Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's role in the national campaign to moderate meat consumption and encourage healthy alternatives.
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