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Mind The Global Output Gap

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Escalating food and fuel prices are a sign the global economy is approaching full resource utilization and the limits of sustainable output. Policy-makers, commentators and investors are still fiercely debating whether high unemployment and idle factories in the United States and Europe are caused by cyclical lack of demand (in which case Keynesian demand management
Beef cattle, News

Where’s The “Taco Meat Filling?”

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Where’s the beef? Not in the taco, according to a class action launched by an Alabama law firm. WSFA News in Montgomery reports that the firm has alleged that fast-food giant Taco Bell uses false advertising when referring to the filling in tacos as “beef.” “Rather than beef, these food items are actually made with
Opinion

Truth In Labelling

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When a nearby national grocery chain hosted a beef sale last summer, this carnivore grabbed his chequebook and motored to the store’s meatcase as fast as the Exploder’s worn wheel bearings allowed. I was greeted with a ruby wave of shrink-wrapped beef loins sporting stickers that announced their Angus origins. Nowhere, however, could I find
Opinion

Planet Needs To Heal

Thank you for your article Jan. 27 by Ron Friesen, reporting on Thomas Fisher’s warnings “World teetering on environmental catastrophe.” I also believe we must change our ways and take much better care of our one and only planet. I do not agree that people are promoting fear-mongering agendas about climate change, nor are they
Country Crossroads

Are You Ready For Capoeria?

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Wh e n Lisele Lindsay invited me to a Capoeira Demonstration Fundraiser in January, I thought she was inviting me to a jewelry party! I felt rather “unworldly” as she had to explain that Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that some local folks have been practising weekly for the past three months. I arrived
Crops

UN Food Body FAO Warns Against Food Export Curbs

The United Nations’ food agency warned food-producing countries Jan. 26 against introducing export curbs to protect local markets as world food prices rose close to levels that triggered food riots in 2007- 08. Global food prices rose above 2008 highs in December with the Food Price Index of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Forages, Livestock, Other livestock

Big White Dogs Keep Elk Away From Hay Bales

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Ranchers stockpile hay to feed their livestock, not roving wild ruminants. Freeloading deer and elk can cart off large amounts of feed in their bellies, and leave behind bovine tuberculosis-infected snot, saliva and feces on the fodder. Tall fences keep them out of bale yards, but are expensive and won’t help with bale-grazing sites –
Hogs, Livestock

Chef Trumpets Need To Promote Pork

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. Edmonton chef Brad Smoliak is passionate about food and especially pork, but he says barriers need to be overcome in order to increase consumption. “Pork has
Cereals, Livestock

Free Trade Talks With Morocco Wins Praise From Ag Sector

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Canadian farm groups and the Canadian Wheat Board were quick with praise last week for a federal initiative to launch free trade negotiations with Morocco, saying a deal is needed to keep Canadian durum and pulse exports competitive with shipments from the United States. The U.S. has had an FTA with the North African country
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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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