Reading Time: 3 minutes Gene-edited crops can help produce safe and affordable food and energy. But proponents need to make a legitimate case to consumers
Tag: Food safety
Plant health a decidedly human issue
Reading Time: 3 minutes Climate change knows no borders and neither should science. And when it comes to plant science, Canada is a force to be reckoned with
Grocery stores bulking up on ultra-processed foods
Reading Time: 4 minutes Far too many products in Canada’s stores give us lots of calories but little nutrition. And we have dangerously abandoned cooking and meal-time routines
Behind Maple Leaf Foods’ bold call to become carbon neutral
Reading Time: 4 minutes The company is showing what environmental stewardship in agri-food should look like in the 21st century
Meat lovers should embrace vegans
Reading Time: 4 minutes They remind us of how critical food diversity is to all of us. And they may be pointing the way to the future on our dinner tables
The red meat merry-go-round
Reading Time: 4 minutes The protein war isn’t about the amount of meat we should eat, but rather about how studies on nutrition should be interpreted. It’s messy
The dark side of the Non-GMO Project
Reading Time: 3 minutes Suggesting that food products with the Non-GMO Project label are safer and more nutritious is simply misleading and rests on scrawny scientific evidence
National food policy can play key economic and social roles
Reading Time: 3 minutes But a great deal of work must be done to turn the vision into a reality that serves all Canadians
China clearly has Canada’s number when it comes to food safety
Reading Time: 4 minutes Diplomatically, China has made Canada look like an amateur trying to play in the big leagues.
Canada’s first food policy is pointless and underwhelming
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ottawa has offered its first food policy in our country’s history. Beyond that achievement, the actual document does not offer much for our agri-food sector to celebrate.