The mission of the Center for a Livable Future is to promote research and to develop and communicate information about the complex interrelationships among diet, food production, environment and human health, to advance an ecological perspective in reducing threats to the health of the public and to promote policies that protect health, the global environment and the ability to sustain life for future generations.
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Faculty Spotlight: Keeve Nachman is a faculty adviser for the Food Systems, Water and Environmental Sustainability track of EHE's Master of Health Science in Environmental Health program. His research played an important role in ending the use of arsenic-based drugs in food animal production in the United States and a number of other countries. Learn more. https://lnkd.in/eCMsc4wQ Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future
We are excited to announce that some of our CLF experts are participating in this year's APHA ANNUAL MEETING. View the schedule for more information: https://lnkd.in/dR_w9hph
A group of seven journalists filed into Ebenezer Haitian Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Seaford, Delaware, where they would hear first-hand stories from workers in slaughter and processing facilities. Greeting the journalists was Emanie Dorival, a nurse practitioner who immigrated from Haiti, and whose Seaford practice treats many Haitian immigrants employed by poultry slaughterhouses. The trip to Seaford was Day Two of a three-day in-person event that kicked off the new Food Systems and Public Health Fellowship for Journalists.https://https://lnkd.in/e7tGdnWR
Food policy councils (FPCs) can play a vital role in addressing the severity of the climate crisis as a part of their work to build a more equitable, resilient, and sustainable food system. Strategies for FPCs to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation into their work include advocacy, policy and planning, and narrative shifting and education. This report provides a brief overview of the connection between the food system and the climate crisis and offers strategies for FPCs to integrate climate change into their work. https://lnkd.in/dqAn-JVU
In this episode of Unconfined, veteran journalists Douglas Frantz and Catharine Collins expose what lies beneath those rosy salmon filets that grace our supermarket seafood cases. #CLFUnconfined Listen on Libsyn, Apple, Spotify and YouTube. https://lnkd.in/emYBQhFx
Michael and his mother, Maria Payan, sometimes get their point across by telling the story of a mass die-off of 20,000 chickens at the farm next door. Following that event, Michael took a bath and came out of the tub with his body covered in blisters. A dead chicken from the facility ended up on their lawn, and Maria put it in a plastic bag and stored it in her freezer, hoping she could get someone from a state agency to come out, test the chicken, and look for links between the die-off and the blisters. But the agencies they contacted told them the blisters were from the limestone, and although they visited the site, they would not take a water sample when Maria requested it. https://lnkd.in/ebeeBw-c
Farmer, poet, and essayist Wendell Berry noted “how we eat determines to a considerable extent how the world is used,” says CLF’s Brent Kim, MHS ’09, an EHE assistant scientist. “There are important roles for animals in a sustainable food future, and there are also plenty of protein-dense options that don’t depend on animals at all,” says Kim. Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eBrZ4zfD
“Our perspective is that while we certainly need significant reform, it’s not reasonable to advocate for ending all meat production,” says Center for a Livable Future senior program officer Patti Anderson PhD ’14, MPH ’09. “This is particularly important because there are a lot of settings, especially outside the U.S., where animal-sourced foods can be produced sustainably and are critical to diet.” Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eBrZ4zfD
CLF is at #TerraMadre2024! Meatless Monday Official is active in more than 40 countries around the world, having a positive impact on our health, our environment, and our communities. "Meatless Monday is not only a healthy choice but also a way of life." Enele Zulu, Meatless Monday South Africa.
“Yet all this plenitude comes at steep costs that are largely invisible to the average consumer, says Keeve Nachman, PhD ’06, MHS ’01, the Robert S. Lawrence Professor in Environmental Health and Engineering. “There are planetary, human, animal, and ecological costs associated with producing that cheap pound of chicken that are not reflected in what you pay at the grocery store,” says Nachman, who is also associate director of the CLF.” Learn more at https://lnkd.in/eBrZ4zfD