Canadian diets are too heavy in fat, salt and sugar, and both government and industry have a role in changing that. 
Imagining feeding your child this for breakfast:This for lunch:... 
Fatty "comfort" foods might actually make people depressed, new Canadian research suggests. Large-scale crop plantations are expanding at a rapid pace across southeast Asia, with multinational firms often benefiting the most at the expense of local communities and the environment, two U.N. rights experts warned on Wednesday. 
Company seeks food-inspection agency approval for genetically modified fruit that doesn’t change colour when sliced open... 
Richmond, B.C., has voted to become a GE-free zone and to call for mandatory labelling of GMO products. 
KFC Australia will stop using GMO palm oil to fry its chicken. GM Free Cymru - The community pressure group campaigning to keep Wales free of genetically-modified crops... allAfrica: African news and information for a global audience... 
President Obama anticipated these criticisms when he addressed “whether this New Alliance is just a way for governments to shift the burden onto somebody else.” He was quick to assure that, even in hard economic times, his administration would continue to make investments in development aid. Let’s make sure that those investments work to prioritize the right to food over corporate profits. 
Neither governments nor global corporations bothered to consult with those who have the biggest stake in rebuilding agriculture in Africa: the farmers. 
Unless you are a regular reader of Chemical & Engineering News, you might have missed this battlefield report yesterday from American agriculture's ongoing war against natural selection:Farmers, plant geneticists, chemists, and agronomists recently... 
The journey from seed-to-cafeteria tray is long and complex. My role is to shepherd the process from start to finish, and help local schools actionably transform the quality of their food. |
Finally, it seems that everyone concerned about global food security is talking about the role of women in growing, preparing, and marketing the world's food. 
“Antibiotic levels nearly nil” screams the headline from this article in the industry trade publication, National Hog Farmer. It was a piece of spin doctoring in response to IATP’s report earlier this month on the widespread and unregulated use of human antibiotics in ethanol production. Ethanol producers use antibiotics to control bacterial outbreaks during production, which can interfere with the fermentation process and lower ethanol yields. 
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nation’s position on land grabs legitimises the industrial monocultures responsible for the expulsion of farmers and indigenous communities from their lands say Latin American and Caribbean social movements and organisations. 
The Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Organisational Development (CIKOD), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Ghana, and the Kenya-headquartered African Biodiversity Network (ABN), have waged war on Genetic Modified (GM) products in Ghana and other parts of Africa.
According to the two NGOs, GM products have health and environmental implications for the country and Africa at large. 
When guerrilla gardeners started a potato patch in a vacant Calgary lot, an alderman showed up with the police to eject them. I never thought I’d hear an official of a major corporation admit publicly that capitalism was broken, but perhaps that’s what corporate leaders do when speaking to a room full of union leaders. 
The rise of herbicide-resistant varieties drives a search for fresh methods of control. 
Better control of risk factors, improved care making the difference, CDC says... 
The biggest environmental summit for a decade needs to deliver meaningful progress on global food security sustainable agriculture, say researchers. 
With all the hoopla about healthful eating, it’s hard to separate fact from fiction. Here’s the skinny about some so-called “bad” foods. 
If you want to see legislative evidence of the poor treatment of migrants on the North American continent you could start as far back as the United States Naturalization Act of 1790, which established limitations to citizenship based on color of skin. That is, only white people (“free white people… of good moral character”) could be citizens. In Mexico the laws weren’t as explicitly racist, but still limited, in 1854 with the Decreto sobre Extranjería y Nacionalidad de los Habitantes, nearly all benefits, even that of fishing on Mexico’s coasts, to exclusively Mexican citizens.
In the last century and a half since the Decreto sobre Extranjería, in both the United States and Mexico, migrants have been wanted, put to work, granted amnesty, hated, oppressed, expulsed, and just about everything in between. The only thing that has remained constant has been the migrants. They keep moving. And the trend, on behalf of both the U.S. and Mexican governments, has been to pass legislation, including those laws that purport to protect, that makes migrants vulnerable. Vulnerable and exploitable. 
The act of feeding 7 billion plus human beings already puts more stress on the planet than any other single activity, so we're going to need to figure out a way to produce more food without further damaging the environment... |
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