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Bioscience Resource Project News and Views
Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
Published on Monday Jan 30, 2017, by Independent Science News: “Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx” was written by Rob Wallace, PhD. The article can be read at: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/industrial-production-of-poultry-gives-rise-to-deadly-strains-of-bird-flu-h5nx/
Synopsis: Multiple deadly new strains of H5N bird flu are successively infecting poultry farms across the globe. These pathogens are killing millions of farmed birds and threaten human outbreaks. Thanks to industry-funded research, blame is usually placed on wild bird populations and climate change. According to new research, however, the real culprit is escaping that judgment. It is factory farm conditions such as cramped housing, genetic uniformity, and the rapid cycling of birds.
Rob Wallace is an epidemiologist and animal health expert.
Read the full article at: Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
There’s Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling
Published on Jan 24, 2017 on Independent Science News: “There’s Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling,” a new article by Jonathan Latham, PhD.
Synopsis: Last week, Michael Pollan, Olivier de Schutter, Mark Bittman and Ricardo Salvador called GMO labeling “parochial”. They are mistaken. GMOs are the leading edge of agribusiness strategy in intellectual, financial, and legal senses. They have enabled huge profits and leveraged the concentration of the global seed supply, while at the same time boosting sales of herbicides and pesticides. Labeling, on the other hand, is a mechanism for introducing democracy and the protection of consumer rights, possibilities that are everywhere in short supply. It should not be dismissed or diminished.
Go to There’s Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling to read the full article.
Latest Fracking Threats to Agriculture and Soil Quality
Unconventional gas and oil extraction (fracking) expose farmers, livestock and consumers to multiple hazards. Two new publications collect scientific research and other documented reports on the harmful impacts of fracking on rural communities, agriculture and food systems.
On November 17, The Concerned Health Professionals of New York published the 4th edition of the Compendium of scientific, medical and media findings demonstrating risks and harms of fracking (unconventional gas and oil extraction). Like the first edition in 2014, the updated compendium is organized by key topics and written to be intelligible to “public officials, researchers, journalists and the public at large”. It is fully referenced and includes summaries of scientific and medical literature, government and industry reports, and journalistic investigations that document fracking’s harmful impacts. read more…
Jonathan Latham Speaks at Organic Conference in Guelph, Ontario on Jan 27, 2017
Jonathan Latham, Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project, is speaking during the Keynote Forum of the 2017 Guelph Organic Conference, along with Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) (Ottawa); Rene Van Acker, PhD – Crop-weed Ecologist and Dean, Ontario Agriculture College (Guelph); and Dianne Dowling – Organic Dairy Farmer and President of the National Farmers Union (NFU) Local 316 (Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox-Addington).
The Forum is entitled: What is the future of genetic engineering? It is being held on
For more information about the Forum go to: http://guelphorganicconf.ca/sessions/keynote-forum-what-is-the-future-of-genetic-engineering/
Radio Interview with Jonathan Latham: The Food Movement Is Unstoppable
In this one hour interview, Project Executive Director Jonathan Latham discusses the future and the food movement. He discusses how the food movement is becoming the political alternative to neoliberalism. The discussion moves to ask what are the threats to it? How it might be co-opted and by who?
Listen here: https://bioscienceresource.org/the-food-movement-is-unstoppable/
Overkill: The Effects of GMO Herbicide Tolerance Traits on Human Health and the Environment, talk by Jonathan Latham
Tomorrow is unmissable Wednesday! The latest installment of the student-led class at Cornell: Overkill: The Effects of GMO Herbicide Tolerance Traits on Human Health and the Environment, is a talk by Jonathan Latham, PhD, Executive Director of The Bioscience Resource Project.
Time and place: 7pm in The Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (note the new venue).
Free and Open to All, with Free Parking near Anabel Taylor Hall.
Link to last week’s fabulous discussion with the unique and incomparable Michael Hansen of the Consumers Union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsVupnT0kY&feature=youtu.be
More about GMO debate and GMO course and link to past talks: http://www.gmowtf.com/
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