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Our “Response Ability”

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But can it feed the world? The question routinely arises when the conversation turns to organic agriculture. Conventional wisdom says organic agriculture is a nice niche for those who can afford to pay the higher premiums as compensation for the farmers’ lower yields. But the production system can’t possibly achieve the productivity that will be
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One-Issue Sermonizers Indeed!

In your Oct. 7 issue Ronald Doering asserts that the good people around us who champion local foods are “One-issue sermonizers.” Yes, promoters of local foods do tend to use food travel miles (usually 1,500 to 2,000 kms on
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Letters – for Oct. 14, 2010

Eating local can be done While there may be some accurate points in Ronald L. Doering’s recent articleManitoba Co-operatorOct. 7 article regarding “locavores,” energy consumption of production, processing and preparing of certain foods and how it outweighs transportation of food, you cannot make the subject so “simplistic” that it applies to all food. For example,
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Food Safety Review Slowly Getting Underway

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The committee has been struck, but any revamp of food safety regulations is still a ways off. “We’re in early days,” said Anna Romano, executive director of the Food Safety Review Committee at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The group of government, agriculture and food industry officials has met once and agreed on six themes they
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Blue Moon Saskatoon Welcomes Guests

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Leslie and Dale Luhowy had a special treat to serve some recent visitors – freshly baked saskatoon pie made with berries from their very own orchard. The family’s saskatoon operation was a definite draw for folks participating in the province’s first Open Farm Day Sept. 19. But while they were there, visitors also learned about
Cereals, News, Oilseeds

In Brief… – for Oct. 7, 2010

Deer ticks now across province:The deer ticks known to harbour the bacteria that cause Lyme disease can now be found throughout Manitoba, including their “well-established” population in the southeast, according to U of M entomologist Terry Galloway. Until this season’s fieldwork is done, it’s not known if deer tick populations have also “established” themselves in
Opinion

Buy Local — But Ignore The “Locavores” Nonsense

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You can’t open the food section of your newspaper these days without another sermon on the virtues of eating local. The eulogy takes as self-evident the moral superiority of the gospel of locavorism: relocalizing the food supply promotes sustainability because it reduces the fossil fuel needed to deliver the food. Buying local makes a good
News, Oilseeds

Human Ecology Celebrates 100 Years

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They don’t call it “home ec” anymore, but the University of Manitoba’s faculty of human ecology is beginning its second century with renewed government support. The faculty recently held its 100th anniversary celebrations, which were highlighted by the announcement of a $100,000 fund that will generate scholarships for students pursuing degrees in human ecology, science,
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Thousands Visit Farms On Open Farm Day

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Tita Evangelista was astonished to discover there’s something else she might want to have for dinner some time: Manitobaraised bison. “The bison! I didn’t know you could eat that,” laughed the Winnipeg woman, who immigrated three years ago from the Philippines. She was one of a throng of Manitobans who took a trip on September

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