A Story About Food Security

This video is an attempt to express some of my thoughts about food security issues and what we can do here in Australia to make our food more secure.

Links for information referred to in the video:

Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries andForest, National Food Plan

http://www.daff.gov.au/agriculture-food/food/national-food-plan

Nutrition and Health:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2006). World hunger increasing. FAO Head calls on world leaders to honour pledges. Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000433/

Lauder, S. (2011) Australia holds record for food allergies. ABC News. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3183421.htm

Lauder, S. (2011). Not enough nutritious food in Australia. ABC News. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/04/05/3182716.htm?site=melbourne

LE Magazine. (2001). Vegetables without Vitamins. Retrieved from http://www.soilandhealth.org/06clipfile/0601.lemag/le%20magazine,%20march%202...

Marler, J. and Wallin, J. (2006) Human Health, the Nutritional Quality of Harvested Food and Sustainable Farming Systems. Nutrition Security Institute. PDF (498KB) Retrieved from http://www.nutritionsecurity.org/PDF/NSI_White%20Paper_Web.pdf

Genetic Engineering:

AUSTRALIAN Certified Organic MAGAZINE (2007) Genetically modified catastrophe. PDF (184KB). Retrieved from http://www.bfa.com.au/Portals/0/BFAFiles/SUM07-GMO-article.pdf

Biello, D. (2007). Genetically Modified Crops Survive Weed-Whacking Herbicide. Scientific American. Retrieved from http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=genetically-modified-crops-s...

Brown, P. (2005). GM crops created superweed, say scientists. Guardian. Retrieved from http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/jul/25/gm.food

Grieve, O. (2011). Organic farmer decertified in WA after crop contamination. ABC News. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201101/s3105958.htm

Madsen, K.H. & Streibig, J.C. (n.d.) Benefits and risks of the use of herbicide-resistant crops. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved from http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y5031e/y5031e0i.htm

Union of Concerned Scientists. (2004). Genetically Engineered Crops & Pesticide Use. Retrieved from http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_geneti...

Food Prices:

Australian Food News. (2011) Flooding and Yasi reduce vegetable buying. Retrieved from http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2011/05/03/flooding-and-yasi-reduce-vegetable-b...

Courier Mail (Queensland). (2011). Banana prices set to soar after 75 per cent of the industry's crops were destroyed by Cyclone Yasi. From AAP. Retrieved from http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/banana-prices-set-to-soar-after-75-per-cen...

Pesticides:

Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority. (2010). Are agricultural chemicals responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder? Retrieved from http://www.apvma.gov.au/news_media/community/2010-11_bees_ccd.php

Moynihan, R. (2011). 'Unhealthy' pesticide use lost as Macadamia industry massages media. Crikey.com.au. Retrieved from http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/21/unhealthy-pesticide-use-lost-as-macadamia...

US Environmental Protection Agency (2011). Pesticide issues in the works: Honeybee colony collapse disorder. Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/opp00001/about/intheworks/honeybee.htm

Coal Seam Gas:

Tozer, J. & Cubby, B. (2010). List reveals toxic chemicals used in coal seam mining. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved from http://www.smh.com.au/business/list-reveals-toxic-chemicals-used-in-coal-seam...

ABC News. (2011). Farmers count cost of coal seam gas rush. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/21/3144688.htm

Feedlots:

Coleman, H. (2008). Chemical Contaminants in Cattle Feedlot Wastes. UNSW Water Research Centre. PDF (3.7MB) Retrieved from http://water.unsw.edu.au/site/wp-content/uploads/June_08_Coleman.pdf

Cronin, J.P. (2005). Animal health in beef cattle feedlots. Infectious diseases. Biosecurity -- Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries (Qld). Retrieved from http://www2.dpi.qld.gov.au/health/3549.html

US Environmental Protection Agency (2010). National Enforcement Initiatives for Fiscal Years 2008 - 2010: Clean Water Act: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/oecaerth/data/planning/priorities/cwacafo.html

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[gyzus1]

I agree with you - totally :)

[CreativeLionheart]

Well done Marlee! Thank you! This video is a good reminder ... our food security is tenuous and threatened in so many ways. True leadership would be supporting everything that makes communities more self-sufficient, healthy and resilient. This is what you are doing. Enlightened people power with the determination to protect and create a decent future is the way forwards now. Will pass on.