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Editorial: The upside of losing

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It would appear that agri-industry is losing its two-decade-long battle to prevent labels on foods produced from genetically modified crops. This despite the millions upon millions of dollars poured into aggressive anti-labelling campaigns during state referendums on the issue. It has been a fascinating development to watch. Even as the pro-labellers successfully convinced legislators in
Canadian meat-processing plants are regularly inspected by USDA representatives. A letter about a 2014 report was recently published on the USDA website highlighting concerns.
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USDA letter on food plant inspection critical of CFIA

The letter published on USDA website resulted from a regular audit of 
Canadian food plants and government facilities

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A U.S. audit critical of Canadian meat plants has made headlines nearly two years after the fact, even though the Americans found no food safety problems and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has addressed concerns noted about its capacity to properly inspect food plants. When the 2014 report by the USDA’s Food Safety
Facts alone are unconvincing when it comes to our food
Country Crossroads

Facts alone are unconvincing when it comes to our food

Science offers farmers a great many things, but ethical justification isn’t one of them

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It gets used to defend GMOs, livestock production and food additives. But when speaking to consumers, experts say it is time to retire the phrase “science based” and focus on shared values instead. “You cannot abandon science, you absolutely have to have that to prove the claims you’re making, but at the end of the
The CAPI report identifies consumer issues about food that include health, nutrition, food safety, sustainability, ethics, food security and reliability of supply.
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The ultimate consumers’ choice award

Significant change is needed throughout the sector to secure Canada’s future global competitiveness

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If farmers and food manufacturers want to be ranked world leaders, then they have to prove to Canadian consumers they deserve that status, says the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. In the final report out of a process charting the industry’s future growth that began last fall, CAPI said the sector should consider setting a goal
Chipotle, which in 2013 launched the short film “The Scarecrow” as part of a campaign focused on fresh ingredients, shut all its stores Monday for a live-streamed nationwide staff meeting on food safety. (Chipotle Mexican Grill via YouTube)
Crops

Chipotle shuts for staff food safety meeting

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Reuters — U.S. burrito chain Chipotle Mexican Grill shut its stores for four hours on Monday to hold a nationwide staff meeting, where CEO Steve Ells apologized for E. coli and norovirus outbreaks and laid out the company’s recently developed food safety program. Chipotle also said it would spend about $10 million to help local
In the 10 months since Canada’s 19th case of BSE was confirmed in Alberta, nearly 750 other cattle have had to be traced from the animal’s “birth cohort.”
Livestock

CFIA wrapping up latest BSE probe

The Alberta beef cow was born two years after the enhanced feed ban took effect

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Canada’s food safety agency is still tracking down herdmates of the country’s 19th domestic case of BSE, but will otherwise assume the Alberta cow most likely caught the disease from trace proteins in its early feed. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on Nov. 30 submitted its final report on Case 19 — a 70-month-old purebred
Bill Buckner at the Forum on Canada’s Agri-Food Future which recently took place in Ottawa.
Crops, Livestock

Business leaders debate what being a ‘trusted’ food supplier means

There is more that connects agri-food businesses in Canada than divides them

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For Michael McCain, the suggestion that Canada should become the world’s most trusted food system is a dangerous one. “Higher cost — in our view — will never be universally valued,” he told industry stakeholders and policy-makers at the Forum on Canada’s Agri-Food Future in Ottawa. “Because our marketplace… isn’t homogenous, and that’s where the
Robert Wager, faculty member in the department of biology at the University of Vancouver Island, recently hosted a webinar looking at how to discuss genetically engineered technology with the public.
Crops

Farmers asked to speak up on GE technology

When conversing about modern-day agriculture technology, be as honest and accurate as possible

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Canadian biologist Robert Wager says there is a desperate need for Canadian farmers to add their voices to the conversation about genetic engineering in food production. “I like to quote Carl Sagan, as he said it quite well, ‘we have arranged a global situation where almost everything critically depends on science and technology. We have
Female hands holding an aubergine
Comment, Crops, Livestock

Local food systems in Manitoba on the minds of young, small farmers

Agri-food policy must focus on more than economic development and food safety

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It’s an icy winter evening and I’m visiting at the kitchen table with Lydia, a fellow young farmer living near Dunrea, Man. Every so often we are distracted by the clickity-clack of hooves. There is a baby goat in a box by the coat rack. Its mother kicked it out, Lydia explains, and in this

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