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Whose Food Security?: Confronting Expanding Commodity Production And The Obesity And Diabetes Epidemics, David V. Fazzino

David V Fazzino II

No abstract provided.

Corn, Carbon, And Conservation: Rethinking U.S. Agricultural Policy In A Changing Global Environment, Mary Jane Angelo

Mary Jane Angelo

ABSTRACT

CORN, CARBON AND CONSERVATION: RETHINKING U.S. AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

Mary Jane Angelo

In the past few years, the public has renewed its interest in ensuring that the food it eats is healthy and is grown in ways that are environmentally and economically sustainable. The immense popularity of books such as The Omnivore’s Dilemma, the widespread “locavore” movement, First Lady Michelle Obama’s White House lawn vegetable garden, concerns over genetically modified crops, rising food prices, growing concerns over the government’s misguided policy to promote corn ethanol, and the climate change crisis have refocused the public’s attention …

Antibiotics In Food Animals: The Convergence Of Animal And Public Health, Science, Policy, Politics And The Law, Nancy Halpern

Nancy E Halpern D.V.M.

ANTIBIOTICS IN FOOD ANIMALS: THE CONVERGENCE OF ANIMAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH, SCIENCE, POLICY, POLITICS AND THE LAW

BY NANCY E HALPERN, DVM

MAY 3, 2009

ABSTRACT

The use of antibiotics in food animals, to prevent and/or control disease in these animals, has been a subject of discussion between the medical and veterinary and animal agricultural sectors and related national and international government entities for decades, because of concerns about the resulting increase in antibiotic resistance such practices facilitate. The underlying premise is that use of antibiotics in food animals leads to resistance of the bacteria consumed by humans, and reducing …

Trampling The Public Trust, Debra Donahue

Debra L. Donahue

Many ecological problems in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem can be traced to livestock production politics. Federal land managers and state wildlife agencies refuse to address the root causes of these problems and seek ecological solutions. They pursue management policies driven, not by science or law, but by an institutionalized relationship with livestock interests. This article describes three pressing ecological issues--predator control, elk and bison supplemental feeding, and climate change--and explains how public land grazing causes or contributes to each problem and frustrates solutions. The article argues that current management policies violate state duties as trustee for the people’s wildlife and …

Organophosphates, Friend And Foe: The Promise Of Medical Monitoring For Farm Workers And Their Families, Gabriel Eckstein, Adriane Busby

Gabriel Eckstein

Millions of farm workers nation-wide who load, mix and/or apply pesticides are exposed to incredible amounts of pesticides on a daily basis. Various inefficiencies and inconsistencies in the regulatory system – including insufficient illness reporting data systems, lack of regulatory compliance and enforcement, and inadequate data and information on the chronic effects of exposure and overexposure to various pesticides – increase the likelihood that these workers will continue to be exposed to dangerous amounts of pesticides.

This article assesses the existing mechanisms designed to protect farm workers from occupational exposure to pesticides and identifies and analyzes some of the shortcomings …

A Proposal To Regulate Farm Animal Confinement And Overview Of Current And Proposed Laws, Elizabeth Rumley

Elizabeth Rumley

No abstract provided.

Biofuels, Subsidies, And Dispute Settlement In The Wto, Bryant Walker Smith

Bryant Walker Smith

The first WTO panels to tackle a biofuels dispute under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures will navigate a murky sea of conflict, gridlock, and uncertainty that the subsidies agreement did not contemplate and that the failed Doha round did not resolve. This article charts these waters. It identifies both the values that the panels will confront and the interpretive tools that they will wield. It further argues that dispute settlement may become the primary driver of an otherwise stagnant regime, and it sketches three competing visions for protecting the “legally binding security of expectations” that underscores that regime.