Ricardo Salvador,
Ph. D.
Director and
Senior Scientist,
Food & Environment Program
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This month, Senior Staff Writer Seth Shulman sat down for a Q &
A session with Ricardo Salvador, the new director and senior
scientist of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of
Concerned Scientists. Here is an excerpt from their
conversation:
"...one of the things I want to do
is make sure we are connecting agricultural issues to people’s
lives—to issues of social justice, the environment, the economy,
and especially to issues of health. For example, I hope we can
increase public awareness about the huge public health care
costs associated with diseases like hypertension and diabetes.
These thoroughly preventable diseases are the result of a
default food system that exists only because it is successful as
a business proposition for some large agribusiness firms but
remains deaf to its effects on our public health..." MORE
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