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Product Of Canada Should Be Really Canadian, Miller Says

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Conservative MP Larry Miller is offering a simple fix for the debate over how much domestic content there should be in food labelled Product of Canada. To be eligible to use the label, food products should be 100 per cent Canadian with exemptions allowed for processed or packaged foods that include sugar, spices and other
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France Takes On Germany In Global Gastronomy Battle

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France unveiled a global campaign Feb. 16 to reconquer the world’s dinner plates and regain its standing as the gastronomic yardstick four years after Germany overtook it as Europe’s top food exporter. Germany, known more as an industrial powerhouse, pushed ahead of France in the European Union’s 2007 food export ranking, as tough competition in
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Shoppers Rate Products By IPhone

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Take your iPhone into a supermarket and go up to a product on the shelf. Hold the iPhone next to the bar code on the package and take a picture. Within seconds, a colour – green, yellow or red – comes up on the screen, along with a single-digit number. The colour tells you how
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Washington’s Tough New Food-Safety Law Could Affect Canada

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While it’s too soon to tell for sure, the new U.S. food-safety law could become another big headache for Canadian food exporters. The law, to be implemented over the next 18 months, gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration powers similar to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, namely the authority to proactively protect the food
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Young Farmer Issues Divide MPs

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MPs on the Commons agriculture committee all favour encouraging young farmers but can’t agree on how government can best help them. The committee agreed on 13 recommendations to assist young farmers, but the Conservatives, Liberals and Bloc Quebecois decided to chip in dissenting reports with a bunch of extra ideas wrapped in political rhetoric. By
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Buy Local At Christmas, MAFRI Minister Urges

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Finding made-in-Manitoba gifts takes more time than simply hitting the mall and looking for bargains. But that extra effort results not only in having unique and meaningful gifts to give to those hard-to-buy-for relatives and friends, it also puts money back into the local economy. “Buying local benefits us all,” Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Livestock

Manitoba Weekly Cattle Report

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Mo s t cattle auction marts across Manitoba continued to see steady to higher volumes and steady to higher prices during the week ending Dec. 3. “It hasn’t really changed in the last couple of weeks,” said Ryan Denhard of the Killarney Auction Mart. “The market and volumes have been very strong.” Denhard said with
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Anti-GE Crop Bill Survives But Not For Long

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A n NDP bill that industry officials say could cripple the development of new genetically engineered crops in Canada has gained an extra bit of parliamentary life but seems destined to flame out early next year. The NDP caucus used parliamentary rules in early December to force almost a full day of debate, probably in
Livestock

Russia Courts New Zealand Trade Deal

Russia has started its first Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negot iat ions with New Zealand, the two countries’ leaders said as they met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit. “Today we embark on negotiations to reach a Free Trade Agreement. For both countries this is a very good opportunity,” New Zealand
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Why Don’t The Chinese Eat Canadian Food?

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A big question in the news these days has been whether the Chinese will buy part or all of Saskatchewan’s PotashCorp. Underlying this is the recognition that China has a huge problem coming at it: how to feed itself. With little arable land and a growing middle class – estimated by some to be 700

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