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CALL FOR PAPERS
Food Production and Processing:
Impacts on Work and Environment
Pesticides, Mad Cow Disease (BSE), Bovine Growth Hormone (BST), food
irradiation, fertilizer made from municipal sludge, bacterial contamination
speed-up on poultry de-boning lines, monoculture, multinationals... How are
we growing, raising, and producing our food and what is it doing to workers
and the environment? A special issue of New Solutions will explore the
occupational and environmental effects of food production. The continuum,
from plough to plate," covers crop production and anfimal husbandry to food
processing to food marketing. Papers from around the world are welcome.
We are interested in highlighting problem areas and in solutions to those
problems.
Suggested topics:
1. Occupational health and safety of workers in agriculture, horticulture,
fishing and animal husbandry.
2. Occupational health and safety of food processing, distribution and shop
workers.
3. Environmental effects of these industries.
4. Environmental, occupational, and public health effects of large-scale
food production and distribution systems. Examples are: the damage of cash
cropping to subsistence farming (economic, public health, pollution, work
hazards), decline of species variety in agriculture; effect of large-scale
farming on soil erosion, desertification, water pollution by fertilizers
and pesticides, soil erosion; farm waste disposal problems, food safety
issues created by large-scale food distribution and production systems.
5. Global Warming's impact on agriculture and food production.
6. Impact of globalization on agriculture and food, workers and consumers.
could include circle of poison (pesticide) and transportation issues and
contrasts with local agriculture.
7. Impacts of multinationals on agriculture and food: big food producers,
supermarkets and other large retailers; agrochemical companies' control of
seeds and species variation. Multinational strategies in biotechnology,
genetic engineering, hormones, food irradiation, and so forth. Impact of
the World Trade Organization, NATFA.EU.
8. Response of non-economic international bodies to some of the problems
outlined above, e.g., ILO, Codex, International Consumer Groups, FAO, ITSs,
JMPR, and so forth.
Submissions should be no longer than 15 pages DOUBLE-SPACED and be received
no later than December 15, 1998. Mark the envelope FOOD SAFETY and send
paper to:
Dr. Beth Rosenberg
Dept. of Family Medicine and Community Health
Tufts University School of Medicine
136 Harrison Ave.
Boston, MA 02111
Questions? Andrew Watterson, aew@dmu.ac.uk
tel: (UK)0116 257 7735 fax: 0116 257 7708
Beth Rosenberg, brosenbe@opal.tufts.edu
tel: (US) 617 636 6651 fax: 617 636 7417
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