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).

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Tags: frankenfoods, gmo, LMOs, Margaret Webb, Michael Schmidt, Organic Agriculture, organic farming, organics, Percy Schmeiser, Pfenning, raw milk, Rick Smith, Tom Manley

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

12 Foods To Buy Organic & Clean

28Mar09

Sheryl Eisenberg (This Green Blog) summarizes the latest list put out by the Environmental Working Group, a major US environmental and human health watch dog.

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Tags: chemicals, environmental, ewg, Food Safety, group, healthy living, organics, pesticides, poison, toxic, working

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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Tags: alcohol, canning, chemicals, conference, cosmetics, farming, fertilizers, Food, Food Sovereignty, healthy living, livestock, meat, moms, mothers, organics, pesticides, pregnancy, preservation, research, Restaurants, Science, spirits, study, sustainability, sustainable, wine

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

Speaker Biographies for the 2009 Organic Conference

11Jan09

The speaker biographies for the ‘Growing for Nourishment’ Nourishing the Future 2009 Organics Conference are up and running for your viewing pleasure.

Filed under: Conferences, Food Distribution, Food Processing, Food Retail, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, GMOs, Health and Wellness, Non Profits/Not for Profits, Toronto   |  1 Comment
Tags: ‘Growing for Nourishment’ Nourishing the Future, conference, event, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Sovereignty, global, lectures, local, moderators, national, networking, organic, organics, speakers