Farmer-Philosopher Will Talk On 'Farm-Food-Health
Connection'
By Donna Mennitto School of Public
Health
Sharp on the heels of Earth Day, North Dakota
farmer-philosopher and Iowa State Professor Fred
Kirschenmann will come to the
Bloomberg School of Public
Health to "connect the dots" in the nexus of health
problems created by industrial agriculture-the health of
our soil, our farms, our environment and our own health. On
Tuesday, April 25, Kirschenmann will deliver the seventh
annual Edward and Nancy Dodge Lecture, titled "The
Farm-Food-Health Connection." The event, which begins at 4
p.m. in the Becton Dickinson Lecture Hall of the School of
Public Health, is sponsored by the
Center for a Livable
Future. A reception will follow.
"We are pleased to bring such a prominent spokesperson
to Hopkins to draw attention to these vital connections,"
said Robert Lawrence, associate dean of the school and
director of CLF. "Dr. Kirschenmann's topic mirrors much of
the work of the center and reflects the vision of Edward
Dodge and his late wife, Nancy, to be careful stewards of
the earth."
A longtime leader in national and international
sustainable agriculture, Fred Kirschenmann is Distinguished
Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
at Iowa State University. Until recently he served as its
director. Before moving to Iowa, he operated his family's
3,500-acre organic farm in south central North Dakota. He
holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of
Chicago and has written extensively about ethics and
agriculture.
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