WHY ORGANIC FOOD REALLY “IS” GOOD FOR YOU

29Jan09

Growing and Eating for Nourishment, Nourishing the Future will have keynote speaker Carlo Leifert, leader of the largest, most sweeping organic food study ever done to date (http://bit.ly/171JG, http://bit.ly/gPZd). Over 30 research organizations, businesses and universities were involved in using science to get to the bottom of things. You will learn about the truth of what makes real good and healthy food at this one-day conference on Saturday, Feb 21st at the U of T Conference Centre (89 Chestnut St).

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[Job] Urban Agriculture Manager, Greenest City

27Jan09

Greenest City has four integrated program streams: urban agriculture, youth, healthy communities and jobs & skills. Programs focus on making Parkdale a more food secure & sovereign neighbourhood. The Urban Agriculture Manager will be responsible for the management and delivery of the urban agriculture program.
Urban Agriculture Program

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Tags: Agriculture, career, city, farming, jobs, management, parkdale, Toronto, urban

‘Food, Inc.’ film looks at corporate impact on what we eat

27Jan09

Food writers Eric Schlosser (‘Fast Food Nation’) and Michael Pollan (‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’) move to the big screen in ‘Food, Inc.,’ a film that looks at what’s happened to the production of food in the last few decades.

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Tags: concentration, consolidation, corporations, dilemma, Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Food, impacts, industrial, industry, mergers, Michael Pollan, Omnivore, system

Elizabeth Guillette

24Jan09

Elizabeth Guillette, a research scientist in anthropology at the University of Florida.

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CONTRACT POSITION: LOCAL FOOD PROJECT ASSISTANT

22Jan09

This position will assist the Local Food Project Coordinator in the delivery of the
Ontario Market Investment Fund – Local Food Project within Grey and Bruce Counties.
The Project works with area farmers and food related businesses to increase the
production, processing and marketing of local foods within the two Counties. This is
a 34 week contract position and is based out of the County of Bruce Planning office in
Wiarton.

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Keep GE Corn for Ethanol Refineries Out of My Cornflakes!

22Jan09

The United States Department of Agriculture is considering a petition from Syngenta Seeds seeking nonregulated status for a new genetically engineered corn seed that is modified to produce an enzyme that facilitates ethanol production. This new industrial GE corn could pose significant threats to the human food supply.

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Tags: action, biofuel, controversy, conventional, ethanol, GE, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, industrial, LMOs, Seeds, Syngenta

OCO Meeting on Ontario Organic Regulation

22Jan09

Organic production in Canada will soon be regulated by federal legislation. Many people within the organic community welcome this move from a voluntary system to one governed by regulation and enforceable by law. They believe that we need to protect the consumer from fraudulent use of the word “organic”. Some operators in the province has voiced the opinion that certification should not be imposed on anyone.

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Tags: business, certification, community, consumer, coopt, cooptation, eater, Food, industry, organics, policy, protection, regulations, right, stakeholder, system, voluntary

Peanut Butter Scares in Over 40 States!

22Jan09

Peanut butter products continued to disappear from store shelves Tuesday as more grocery chains and specialty companies joined a growing list of precautionary recalls.

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Tags: butter, centralization, contamination, conventional, crackers, distribution, factory, Food Safety, health, industrial, packaging, paste, peanut, processing, salmonella, scares, sourcing

Cooperation is Farming: Strength in Numbers

20Jan09

At the Quinte Organic Farmers Co-operative, the 13 members are defying the conventional wisdom drilled into MBA students at university business schools – that competition is the essence of success, and that constant growth is the holy grail.

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Tags: Agriculture, alternative, cooperative, distrubution, farming, Food, local, mechanisms, organic, production

Oppose Tom Vilsack’s Confirmation as Secretary of Agriculture

14Jan09

In spite of 20,00 e-mails from organic consumers and, in apparent contradiction to his announcement that he wants an organic garden at the White House, Obama has chosen Tom Vilsack, a strong bio-tech proponentsupporting genetically engineered crops, cloned animals, etc., to run the Department of Agriculture.
As you will see below, Vilsack is truly Monsanto’s boy. He pre-empted the local votes of towns and counties who had voted to disallow GE seeds!

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Tags: Agriculture, biotech, biotechnology, ethical, Ethics, food bill, Food Safety, Food Sovereignty, food system, frankenfoods, genetically modified organisms, gmo, lmo, secretary of agriculture, technology, Tom Vilsack