Hi Donna,
The call for papers is from New Solutions, a journal of occupational and
environmental health policy. Papers should be mailed by Dec. 15 to me at
Tufts University School of Medicine. Papers should be 15 pages or less,
double spaced.
Thanks.
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From: Willie Lockeretz <WLockeretz@infonet.tufts.edu>
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu <sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 5:15 PM
Subject: call for papers
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>[This Call for Papers should of interest to many people on this list.
>Please note that I am only forwarding it; questions or replies should
>be sent to Dr. Rosenberg, as explained in the original message. WL]
>
> -------------------------- [Original Message] -------------------------
>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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