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Making the Connection: Food Security & Public Health - Fact Sheet
A one page fact sheets that starts with the statement: "The evidence is in: public health and food security are closely linked." This one pager pulls out some key pieces of information from the 75 page paper with the same title published by the Community Nutritionists Council of BC.
Food Security Model Core Program Paper
This paper was developed as part of the B.C. provincial government's commitment to strengthening public health in 21 program areas. Each of the health authorities is responsible for developing programs and monitoring that support the core programs.
Food, Health and Well-being in British Columbia
Provincial Health Officer's Annual Report for 2005 (174 pages). Note of interest: The PHO recommends mandatory labeling of GE foods. Also comments on intensive livestock operations, aquaculture, and industrial contaminants in food.
- Aboriginal health
- aquaculture
- BSE
- cost of eating
- disease
- food access
- food policy
- food safety
- food-borne illness
- GMOs
- ILOs
- industrial contaminants
- intensive livestock operations
- labeling
- nutrition
- obesity
- pathogens
- poverty
- public health
- safety
- Agriculture & Harvesting
- Food & Health
- Food & the Environment
- Indigenous Food Sovereignty
- Policy Work / Systems Change
Avian Influenza in Free-Range and Organic Poultry Production
Backgrounder on avian flu for poultry producers. Includes theories about the sources of avian flu, and information on transmission, prevention, surveillance, response, and eradication of the virus, as well as risks to people. Written by Anne Fanatico, National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA) Sept 2006.
Cost of Eating in Alberta 2008
The Cost of Eating in Alberta 2008
report examined the incomes and
costs of four basic needs (shelter,
food, transportation and childcare) in
six different lower income household
scenarios. Costs were collected in six
Alberta communities. These scenarios
were created to examine the
affordability of basic needs for
household situations known from
national surveys to be at risk of food
insecurity. As expected, the
households depicted would have a
Human Health in a Changing Climate: A Canadian Assessment of Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacity
Synthesis report - many authors and contributors - edited by Jacinthe Seguin, Health Canada, 2008 (524 pages).
The English Patients: Human Experiments and Pesticide Policy
Report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), 1998 (19 pages).
Note that policy and practices around pesticide testing and human experimentation may (or may not) have changed since 1998.
New Perspectives on Food Security
Conference proceedings (154 pages).
Glynwood Center, 2005.
GMOs: A Potential Threat to Fertility
Press release by Greenpeace International, November 2008 (1 page).
Includes contact information for the Austrian scientists who conducted the research demonstrating the reproductive risks. Source: www.//greenpeace.org. (look under press releases)
Canadian Consumers' Guide to Ingredients which may have been genetically engineered, or How to Become a Detective in your own Food System
Guide (18 pages), written by Abra Brynne, 2000 (revised Jan 2009).
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Food Secure Canada is the place where agriculture, environment, health, food, and justice intersect. www.foodsecurecanada.org
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