Main description:

At the end of the nineteenth century, the health and productivity of the livestock and poultry industries and the safety of foods of animal origin in the United States were severely compromised by infectious diseases. Bovine tuberculosis was a widespread and significant food safety hazard, with large numbers of human TB cases caused by contaminated milk. Texas fever, foot and mouth disease, brucellosis, glanders, trichinosis, and fowl plague challenged both animal and human health. Government intervention in veterinary public health made great strides during the first half of the twentieth century, however, and the U.S. food supply was proclaimed to be the safest in the world.

In the countries of the developing world, infectious diseases of animals and humans remain prevalent and pose serious threats to a globalized society, in which the health status of animals in one nation is directly linked to the health status of animal and human populations throughout the world. The problems and their solutions are immensely complex and difficult and extend well beyond the challenges of controlling infectious diseases. As a result, those involved in the food industry, and especially veterinarians, face the question, "Is it possible to feed a burgeoning world population while respecting the welfare of livestock and poultry, containing the spread of disease, and managing the Earth's natural resources?"

In Food Security in a Global Economy, contributors from across the globe and from a range of disciplines-veterinarians, public health officials, researchers, scholars, and industry experts-provide analysis and cutting-edge research. From the spread of avian influenza to the burgeoning problems associated with more affluent and urbanizing populations in the developing world, Food Security in a Global Economy provides a comprehensive overview of the issues that form the central challenge for veterinary medicine in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Foreword: A Note on Martin Kaplan

-Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior

Preface

-Joan Hendricks

Introduction: Setting the Scene

-Alan M. Kelly

PART I. THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE FOR VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH

1. What Will the Future Bring, and How Can We Prepare for It?

-Greg W. BeVier

2. Globalization: What Caused It, and How Will It End?

-Stephen J. Kobrin

3. The Livestock Revolution and the Developing World

-Cornelis de Haan and Henning P. Steinfeld

4. Technology, Innovation, Research, and Development

-David T. Galligan and Edward Kanara

5. Animal Welfare in Livestock Production: Implications for Producers, Consumers, and Public Health

-Paul B. Thompson

6. Animal Plagues: The Political and Economic Consequences of Nonzoonotic Animal Diseases

-Gary Smith

PART II. THE FOOD INDUSTRY

7. The Global Food Industry

-David Harlan and Candace Jacobs

8. Farming the Sea: The Revolution in Aquaculture

-Richard Langan

9. Creating Risk: Antibiotic Resistance

-Shelley Rankin and Sandra Cointreau

PART III. EMERGING THREATS

10. The Changing Epidemiology of Avian Influenza

-Ilaria Capua, D. J. Alexander, Bruce A. Rideout, and Martin Vincent

11. Wildlife Zoonoses: Emerging and Reemerging Zoonoses from Wildlife Reservoirs

-Bruno B. Chomel

12. Monkeypox: A Threat to the United States?

-Darin S. Carroll

13. Bat Zoonoses: The Realities

-Chuck Rupprecht, Lin-Fa Wang, and Leslie A. Real

PART IV. NATIONAL AND GLOBAL RESPONSES

14. International Efforts at Detection and Control

-Francois-Xavier Meslin and Corrie Brown

15. The Public Health Workforce

-Hugh Mainzer

16. The Task Ahead

-Alan M. Kelly

Contributors

Index