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Table Matters: How Industrial Animal Production Impacts Health and the Environment

July 15, 2008

Background Information / Resources

Pew Report on Industrial Animal Production

Potentially fatal bacteria found in pigs, farmworkers
Andrew Schneider, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
June 8, 2008

Recent Union of Concerned Scientists report on industrial animal production
CAFOS Uncovered: The Untold Costs of Confined Animal Feeding Operations

Keep Antibiotics Working: The Campaign to End Antibiotic Overuse in Agriculture
www.KeepAntibioticsWorking.org

Food and Health Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
www.HealthObservatory.org

Dr. Wallinga's presentation at FoodMed 2007, titled Industrialized Meat and Poultry Production: An Ecological System Approach
www.FoodMed.org/downloads.html

To learn what many hospitals are doing to buy meat and dairy products from farms raising animals sustainably, without antibiotics or rBGH, visit Health Care Without Harm.
www.HealthyFoodinHealthcare.org

Pew Oceans Commission

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CHE Partnership Call Table Matters: How Industrial Animal Production Impacts Health and the Environment

July 15, 2008

CHE Partnership Call
Table Matters: How Industrial Animal Production Impacts Health and the Environment