John Hopkins Gazette, MD
04-17-06
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.