Food And Fracking: How Fracking Is Impacting Our Food And Food Systems

Please join the Health and Environmental Funders Network (HEFN) for a call on food and fracking.

In recent years, the concerns over the impacts of fracking on the safety of food have grown as reports of increased and sudden farm animal deaths have emerged. These reports were investigated in a 2012 study from Cornell University. The study found that animals on farms near fracking sites were ingesting water containing significant levels of toxic chemicals associated with the drilling process. The logical next question is, do animal exposures threaten our food and food systems?

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We've invited two experts to join us on this call in order to help us explore this question. Dr. Michelle Bamberger and Dr. Robert Oswald from Cornell University, the authors of the 2012 study, will discuss their ongoing research on impacts of fracking on food systems and food safety. 

Given the topic of this call, we're welcoming SAFSF members to join as well. We hope that many of you can make it!