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CHA Earth Day Webinar: Food Strategies that Care for
Creation
Thursday, April 25, 2024
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. ET
How our food is produced, processed, transported, consumed,
and disposed of profoundly impacts individual, community, and planetary health.
As health care organizations look at ways to reduce their environmental impact,
changes in food strategies are critical.
Food strategy experts from Practice Greenhealth will share
how changes in food procurement, a focus on plant-forward menus and food waste
management can help health care organizations meet sustainability, equity and
community health improvement goals.
Quick facts:
Food production accounts for approximately 25% of global
greenhouse gas emissions. The Science Based Targets Initiative estimates we need
to reduce emissions from food production by 67% by 2050 to avoid catastrophic
climate change. Livestock production is responsible for approximately 14.5%, and
wasted food is responsible for roughly 8% of global greenhouse gas
emissions.
Numerous studies have found farmworkers are at elevated risk
for cancer, likely due to pesticide and sun exposure. Pesticide exposure is also
implicated in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, as well as various disorders
of the respiratory and reproductive tracts.
The rise of antibiotic-resistant infections, which impact
more than 2.8 million people and kill at least 35,000 people in the United
States each year, has been linked to overuse and misuse of antibiotics in animal
agriculture.
A long history of failed regulatory oversight of industrial
slaughterhouses contributes to dangerous conditions for slaughterhouse workers,
environmental degradation, and severe animal suffering.
Source: Adapted from Practice Greenhealth
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Presenters
Lauren Poor
Healthy Food in Health Care,
California Community Food Systems, Regional Program Manager
Health Care
Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth
Betsy Skoda
Healthy Food in Health Care,
New England Community Food System, Regional Program Manager
Health Care
Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth
John Stoddard
Associate Director,
Climate and Food Strategy
Health Care Without Harm and Practice
Greenhealth
Moderator
Indu Spugnardi
Director, Advocacy and
Resource Development
Catholic Health Association of the United
States
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