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Biotech crops risky to consume, says former pro-GMO scientist - Business Mirror
Biotech crops risky to consume, says former pro-GMO scientist
Business Mirror
... N. Benaning / Correspondent. A DECADE after retiring from his job as a research scientist at Agriculture Canada, Dr. Thierry Vrain, a former promoter of genetically modified organisms (GMO), has warned that eating biotech crops are essentially ...
From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain - Truth-Out
From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain
Truth-Out
People are challenging the organic industry to step up to a higher standard in respecting workers' rights. Organic certification in the US is regulated by the USDA and currently does not address labor rights. Organizations like the Agricultural Justice ...
Legalized industrial hemp benefits environment - Golden Gate Xpress
Legalized industrial hemp benefits environment
Golden Gate Xpress
Hemp is a woody fiber, more fibrous than its munchie inducing cousin, and is commonly mixed with other organic fibers like cotton or silk to make clothing fabric. ... According to Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, industrial hemp is legal in ...
Cooking up new business - Grand Rapids Business Journal (subscription)
Cooking up new business
Grand Rapids Business Journal (subscription)
He works mainly in the organic and natural foods sectors, which is why he worked with the founders of Simply Eight, a new processed foods business that started in Kalamazoo earlier this year. (See “Food startup gets shelf space at Meijer and Kroger ...
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Unveils Vision for US Organic Agriculture - NCTechNews (press release)
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Unveils Vision for US Organic Agriculture
NCTechNews (press release)
May 17, 2013 By: NCTechNews Category: Agricultural Technology. WASHINGTON, D.C.–Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today discussed his vision for U.S. organic agriculture and USDA efforts to ensure its continued success during remarks to the Organic ...
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Dairy farmer becomes a big cheese - Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail
Dairy farmer becomes a big cheese
Globe and Mail
Most consumers would still prefer something from Canada to something from outside the country.” “It's not necessarily because people want ... Martin, who teaches courses in organic agriculture and agricultural ecology. “There's also an appeal in the ...
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Health Week: Hard hitting health on ice - iPolitics.ca (subscription)
Health Week: Hard hitting health on ice
iPolitics.ca (subscription)
About 5.8 per cent ($1,020 per year) of taxes paid by Canadians earning less than $17,500 goes to health care, as compared with 6.6 per cent ($3,960) of taxes paid by those earning more than $60,100, and 7.5 per cent ($8,650) for those earning more ...
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Organic checkoff, apple fee elimination and SNAP cuts survive Farm Bill markups - AgraNet (subscription)
Organic checkoff, apple fee elimination and SNAP cuts survive Farm Bill markups
AgraNet (subscription)
Organic farmers would have the option of establishing their own checkoff program, but the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would take a $20.5 billion cut under the 2013 Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act (HR ...
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Organic soy milk and tofu from PEI soybeans on sale in Taiwan - Farm Focus
Farm Focus
Organic soy milk and tofu from PEI soybeans on sale in Taiwan
Farm Focus
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's regional office in Charlottetown worked through the Canadian Consulate in Taipei, Taiwan to get PEI soybeans on the market there and expand the scope of Canadian organic exports available. Along with the soy milk and ...
Ag committee's new alliances - Agriculture.com
Agriculture.com
Ag committee's new alliances
Agriculture.com
"Being starved, abandoned, and trucked thousands of miles to Canada and Mexico, that's anything but humane," Noem said. It's the kind of ... Other members pointed out that the organic trade groups often disparage conventional agriculture. Schrader said ...
MaRS cleantech leader Tom Rand recognized for environment-friendly business ... - Canada NewsWire (press release)
Canada NewsWire (press release)
MaRS cleantech leader Tom Rand recognized for environment-friendly business ...
Canada NewsWire (press release)
2011 - Laure Waridel, social and environmental activist and co-founder of Equiterre, a not-for-profit that advocates for fair trade, sustainable transportation, ecological agriculture and energy efficiency. 2010 - Bruce Cockburn, a celebrated Canadian ...
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Get your green thumb going this season - St. Albert Leader
St. Albert Leader
Get your green thumb going this season
St. Albert Leader
While you can plant anything you can get your hands on, the United States Department of Agriculture as well as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada have determined specific plant hardiness zones that indicate which plants are most likely to thrive in given ...
Good food and great local art served up at The Root Cellar café - MetroNews Canada
Good food and great local art served up at The Root Cellar café
MetroNews Canada
Mouth-watering treats made from local, organic ingredients are not the only thing on the menu at The Root Cellar café. ... Datura recently won a $1,000 London SOUP micro-grant to work on a documentary about urban agriculture and local-food initiatives.
Lisa Joy/Globe Editor - The Lacombe Globe
Lisa Joy/Globe Editor
The Lacombe Globe
... fall and be operational in Lacombe by 2014. The plant – a first of its kind in Canada - is expected to change the face of agriculture and reduce green house gasses. It will use thermal hydrolysis to break down organic waste into safe and usable by ...
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GLACIER MEDIA INC. : Glacier Reports First Quarter Results - 4-traders (press release)
GLACIER MEDIA INC. : Glacier Reports First Quarter Results
4-traders (press release)
... and; Glacier became a 50% partner in a new venture, Weather INnovations ("WIN") Consulting - created as the result of merging WeatherFarm (a former Canadian Wheat Board asset acquired by Glacier in late 2012) and Weather INnovations Inc. (an ...
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GE Crop Thriller Leaves Bond and Bourne for Dust - Huffington Post
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GE Crop Thriller Leaves Bond and Bourne for Dust
Huffington Post
Although the first GE crops were introduced in the U.S. almost 20 years ago, just five countries -- the U.S., Brazil, Argentina, Canada and India -- accounted for most of all GE crops sown in 2012. The fact is that the rest of the world is right ... It ...
Modifying the Endless Debate Over Genetically Modified CropsTIME
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Rethinking Industrial Agriculture - Dissident Voice
Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
Dissident Voice
Health issues linked to industrial agriculture are the second biggest reason people choose locally grown organic food over the standard corporate options. The growing list includes a number of debilitating and fatal illnesses linked with endocrine ...
Law to curb circuit judge's powers wins approval; poll says slight majority ... - River Towns
Law to curb circuit judge's powers wins approval; poll says slight majority ...
River Towns
About 400 people work at Organic Valley, and it has over 1,800 members in the U.S. and Canada. Simeon said a new ... MADISON -- State agriculture officials are renewing their battles against the leaf-killing gypsy moth, and the tree-killing emerald ash ...
Expert warns Minister of fish farm risk - Galway Independent
Expert warns Minister of fish farm risk
Galway Independent
Expert warns Minister of fish farm risk. A leading expert on Marine Ecology has written to the Minister for Food, Agriculture and the Marine to warn him of the potential danger of sea lice posed by offshore salmon farms. Conor Harrington. Wednesday ...
Popham easily turns away Liberal, Green challengers in Saanich South - Victoria Times Colonist
Victoria Times Colonist
Popham easily turns away Liberal, Green challengers in Saanich South
Victoria Times Colonist
Popham, 44, an organic farmer before entering politics who served four years as Opposition agriculture critic, readily defeated Liberal opponent Rishi Sharma. But it was a “bittersweet” night for both of them, Sharma said. While his campaign was ...
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