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2012 HighlightsElizabeth Burns-Thompson, CASTalum, speaking as partof the Alliance to Feedthe Future panel.John Bonner, CarlWinter, and 4-Hmembers at theOctober breakfast.www.cast-science.orgThe Direct Relationship between Animal Health andFood Safety Outcomes (September)• CAST’s recent Special Publication, Assessing theHealth of Streams in Agricultural Landscapes: TheImpacts of Land Management Change on WaterQuality, was presented at the Hypoxia Task ForceMeeting as part of the National Association of StateDepartments of Agriculture (NASDA) conference inDes Moines, which John Bonner attended (September)• CAST had a booth and a presence at the New TechnologyExpo, which took place at the Iowa State UniversityBioCentury Research Farm near Ames andwas sponsored by NASDA and the Gulf of MexicoHypoxia Task Force (September)• Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, President of the WorldFood Prize Foundation, received a CAST President’sAward from CAST EVP/CEO John Bonner andCAST Board Member Todd Peterson (September)• Carl Winter, Director of the FoodSafe Program andExtension Food Toxicologist at the University ofCalifornia–Davis, was the keynote speaker at theCropLife America meeting in Florida, where he wasintroduced as the winner of the 2012 Borlaug CASTCommunication Award (September)• At a World Food Prize side event, CAST andCropLife Foundation sponsored a breakfast whereDr. Carl Winter formally received the 2012 BorlaugCAST Communication Award. After accepting theaward, Dr. Winter spoke to the audience and thenentertained them with a few of his music parodieson the subject of food and food safety (October)• DuPont Pioneer was announced as next year’s sponsorfor the 2012 Borlaug CAST CommunicationAward and a breakfast to take place as a side eventto the World Food Prize festivities (October)• Elizabeth Burns-Thompson, a former AdministrativeAssistant at CAST and current law student atDrake University, served on a panel organized bythe Alliance to Feed the Future that discussed youth,education, and agriculture. The panel discussion tookplace after the breakfast side event at the World FoodPrize (October)• John Bonner was honored by the National FFA Organizationwith the presentation of an Honorary AmericanFFA Degree at the 85th National FFA Conventionand Expo in Indianapolis (October)• The CAST Board of Directors appointed COO LindaChimenti as the next Executive Vice President, effectiveFebruary 1, 2013, upon John Bonner’s retirementon January 31 (November)• Kansas City, Missouri, was the location of the CASTFall Board Meeting, where Phil Stahlman becamethe President of CAST and Lowell Midla the CASTPresident-Elect (November)Personnel Notes• Megan Gaul joined the CAST Student AdministrativeAssistant staff to help with membership and marketing.As a freshman at Iowa State, she is majoring incommunication studies (February)• John Bonner, who has served as Executive VicePresident (EVP) and CEO of CAST since July 2005,announced plans to retire effective January 31, 2013(May)• Sally Gorenz, Student Administrative Assistant inthe editorial group, graduated from Iowa State inDecember with a degree in ag communications (December)• Michelle Mensing, Student Administrative Assistantin finance, graduated from Iowa State in Decemberwith a finance degree (December)• Teresa Decker joined the CAST staff as the StudentAdministrative Assistant in the editorial group.Teresa is majoring in agriculture education with acommunications option at Iowa State (November)• Hailey Duff became the Student AdministrativeAssistant in finance at the end of the fall semester.Hailey is a finance and management major at IowaState (November)• Linda Chimenti, Chief Operating Officer, was namedby the Board of Directors as the next EVP of CAST.Her appointment will begin on February 1, 2013(November)10 Council for Agricultural Science and Technology Annual Report 2012
2012 Borlaug CAST Communication AwardDr. Carl Winter, the Directorof the FoodSafe Programand Extension Food Toxicologistin the Department of FoodScience and Technology atthe University of California–Davis, was the recipient of the2012 Borlaug CAST Communication Award. CASTPresident Nathaniel Tablante made the announcementat a World Bank event in Washington, D.C., in May.CAST EVP/CEO John Bonner introduced Dr. Winter asthe keynote speaker/entertainer at a CropLife Americameeting in Florida in September. This was the thirdyear of CropLife Foundation sponsorship of the award.The formal presentation of the award occurred at abreakfast side event of the World Food Prize in DesMoines, Iowa, in October. The breakfast, hosted by theCropLife Foundation and CAST, showcased Dr. Winter’stalents in spreading the word about food safety.As an accomplished musician, Winter writes, records,produces, and performs musical parodies of contemporarypopular music lyrics to make them appropriateto food safety issues such as bacterial contamination,irradiation, biotechnology, government regulations, andpesticides. He has given nearly 200 live performances atconferences, trade shows, and public gatherings duringthe past several years and distributed more than 30,000CDs and DVDs.A member of the U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationFood Advisory Committee, Winter has receivedthe National Science Foundation International FoodSafety Leadership Award for Education. He is a Fellowof the Institute of Food Technologists, was the InauguralKeiser Distinguished Lecturer at Ohio Northern University,and is an alumnus of the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science Mass Media Scienceand Engineering Fellows Program. Winter gives 40–50news media interviews a year and has frequently beeninvited to testify before the U.S. Congress on pesticide/food safety issues.“People need to keep eating fruits and vegetables,”Dr. Winter continually stresses. “And false informationcan scare the public so they end up not eating nutritiousfood.” His slogan about eating—“Eating is hazardous;“Eating is hazardous.Not eating is fatal.People need to keep eating fruits and vegetables;and false information can scare the public so theyend up not eating nutritious food. The academicpaper is not dead—it gives us the groundworkand credible facts. If you don’t have the science,gimmicks don’t work.”—Dr. Carl WinterBorlaug CAST Communication Award acceptance remarksnot eating is fatal.”—is not as dire as it seems. Anyonewho meets him soon realizes the man doesn’t know themeaning of negativity. But he does want consumers tounderstand the realities of nutrition and food safety,and he is willing to use his talents—from respectedacademic researcher to crowd-pleasing musician—inorder to get his message across.CropLife Foundationsponsored the2012 Borlaug CASTCommunicationAward.Carl Winter (left),John Bonner, KennethQuinn, and Jay Vroom.Barb Glenn, JohnBonner, and CarlWinter in the pressroom at the WorldFood Prize.Nominationinformation for theannual awardmay be found on theCAST website:www.cast-science.org.www.cast-science.orgAnnual Report 2012 Council for Agricultural Science and Technology 11
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