Healthy Food, Healthy Farms Webinar Series
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from Healthy Food Action and The Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy
Health, Justice and Industrialized Meat Production
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
9–10 a.m. PST/12 noon-1 pm EST
Today’s predominant, industrialized farm animal production facilities raise huge numbers of livestock in small geographic areas, producing enormous concentrations of waste that pollutes air and water. As a result, these Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) create a number of problems for the health of the environment and the people living in it, including increased respiratory symptoms, antibiotic resistance and decreased quality of life.
Like other highly polluting industries, CAFOs are disproportionately located in low-income areas and communities of color. For more than a decade, Steve Wing and colleagues at the University of North Carolina have been studying the health effects of hog CAFOs in collaboration with community-based organizations in eastern North Carolina. He’ll present their most recent findings, to appear in Epidemiology next month. Naeema Muhammad, from Concerned Citizens of Tillery, the lead community organization in this research, will discuss community involvement and how the research has contributed to organizing and public education efforts. Discussion will be moderated by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s David Wallinga, M.D.
