Get the Truth About GM Foods: GMWatch

16Feb10

Keep up to date with the latest news on the issue of genetically modified (GM) food and crops and find out about the deceptive PR campaigns being used to promote GM worldwide. Check out GMWatch on Facebook.

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Tags: Food, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, LMOs, nonprofit

Your Food, Your Choice: Grounds for Change

04Feb10

COG Toronto is holding its annual conference with an impressive line up of speakers in the organics movement including Baerbel Hoehm, the first Agricultural Minister for the German Green Party and Michael Schmidt, the raw milk dairy farmer. The event will happen on Saturday, February 20, 2010 9 am to 5 pm at the University of Toronto Conference Centre (89 Chestnut St., Toronto).

Filed under: Organic Agriculture, Environment, Food, Toronto, Events, Conferences, GMOs, Ethics, Agriculture, Health and Wellness, CALLS TO ACTION   |  6 Comments
Tags: frankenfoods, gmo, LMOs, Margaret Webb, Michael Schmidt, Organic Agriculture, organic farming, organics, Percy Schmeiser, Pfenning, raw milk, Rick Smith, Tom Manley

Respect Farmworker Rights, Chipotle!

27Jun09

Last week, leaders of the food justice movement — – including Eric Schlosser and Robert Kenner, producer and director of the hard-hitting new documentary ‘Food, Inc.’ — sent a strongly worded letter to Chipotle, the fastest growing company in fast-food, demanding that they live up to its claims of ‘Food with Integrity’ and ‘work with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers as a true partner in the protection of farmworkers’ rights.

Filed under: Agriculture, CSR, Ethics, Ethnic Agriculture, Food, Food Justice, Food Sovereignty, Global/World   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: Eric Schlosser, farmworker, Food, Food Justice, human rights, immokalee, labour rights, migrant labour, rights, Robert Kenner

Real Deal? New Test to Prove It’s Organic

02Jun09

Now a researcher in Germany has demonstrated the feasibility of laboratory testing to determine whether a carton of organic milk is what it says it is.

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Tags: academics, label, organic, research, testing

Killer Bugs in Our Pork

20May09

We don’t put antibiotic drugs in baby food or cereal and yet agribusiness keeps giving them to healthy animals. Now we’re creating superbugs that our drugs can’t kill.

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Tags: antibiotics, factory farming, hog farms, industrial agriculture, MRSA, pathogens, pathology, pig, pork, resistant, staph, swine flu, virology, viruses

Cheap Food as Charity? Shaky Foundations?

20Apr09

Sunny gives a video summary of the first 2 panels (low income food access and locally sustainable food supply) at the Ontario’s Test Kitchen Conference.

Filed under: Conferences, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Food, Food Distribution, Food Retail, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Health and Wellness, Non Profits/Not for Profits, Policy and Law, Soil Management, Toronto   |  2 Comments
Tags: Alison Blay-Palmer, alternative, ALUS, change, conference, Daily Bread Food Bank, distribution, environmental services, Food, GET, income, Janet Poppendieck, kitchen, land, Local Food Plus, Marin Organic, Ontario, reform, security, sink, Society, solutions, sovereignty, STOP, sustainable, Sweet Charity, system, use, video, Wayne Roberts, YuRanch

Popular kid’s bath products contain toxic chemicals: Study

05Apr09

Many popular children’s bath products on the market contain the cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde or 1,4-dioxane, a study has found.

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Tags: baby, bath, children, Environment, healthy living, kid, organics, poison, safety, toxin

NO GMO Shopping Guide!

23Feb09

Want to know what’s in your food? Not just what’s in your wallet (as Capital One commercials like to quip)? Take a look at the Institute for Responsible Technology’s “must have” guide to NON-GMO SHOPPING.

Filed under: Ethics, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), GMOs, technology   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: Ethics, genetic engineering, gmo, modified, organisms, safety

Food Matters – The Movie (Dead Serious!)

05Dec08

“With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and ourtendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with
our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. ‘Food Matters’ sets about uncovering the trillion dollar
worldwide “Sickness Industry” and giving people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.” – James

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Tags: antibiotics, cancer, chemical, diabetes, diet, diseases, Food, health, healthy living, herbicide, hormones, obesity, pesticide, security, sovereignty, toxin

Genetic Engineering in Your Food – Things You Need to Know

06Nov08

What in the world are we eating? As we shop the grocery store aisles or peruse the menu at a restaurant, we are becoming more and more aware that we really don’t always know what we’re eating. A big unknown is whether or not our food has been genetically engineered. Over and over again, polls show that consumers would dearly love to have genetically engineered food labelled, but governments have backed away from mandating labels. So what’s a consumer to do?

Filed under: Ethics, Food Sovereignty, Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), GMOs, Policy and Law, Science, Society   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: Agriculture, cultivation, deception, dna, farmer, farming, Food, gene, genetic engineering, gmo, label, lmo, monsanto, regulation, seed, transparency