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FDC now has 18,000 more feet to offer specialized services for food product development

By Lorraine Stevenson June 5, 2012

When Alphonsus Utioh decided to come to Manitoba and work at the Food Development Centre 20 years ago, the young chemical engineer was attracted by a chance to do research that would result in more than published papers. “I saw this as more practical. You could actually see what you do and work with people,

News

Half-step for Product of Canada labels

By Alex Binkley June 5, 2012

Agriculture Canada is stepping up its promotion of a Canada Brand program to help identify Canadian food products for consumers at home and abroad. The government is supporting pilot projects in a select group of stores across the country with Canadian products marked with a special red maple leaf label. But the program only works

News

Federal food laws face overhaul

By Alex Binkley June 5, 2012

The Harper government is putting the finishing touches to a major revamp of federal food laws to make processors and manufacturers more responsible for food safety while inspectors focus on the risky segments of the business. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz is expected to present the legislation, known unofficially as the Food Act, to Parliament sometime

Country Crossroads, News, Oilseeds, Recipe Swap

Recipe Swap: Digging into homegrown or local food

By Lorraine Stevenson June 5, 2012

“What a lot of work!” a neighbour exclaimed the other day, peering over my fence. She was looking dubiously at my little garden. “Not work. It’s fun,” I replied cheerfully and I meant it. What my neighbour could see was just a lot of digging, lifting, pulling, hoeing, bending. Possibly, she may have also been

Country Crossroads, News

Get ready for barbecue season

By Julie Garden-Robinson June 5, 2012

Get a clean plate to retrieve food from the grill. Check. Bring a thermometer to measure internal temperature. Check. Retrieve grill brush from storage to clean the grill. Wait a second! As I was helping prepare a meal on our outdoor grill, I paused to check my Facebook page. One of my Facebook friends had

Cereals, Crops, News

Head baker makes sure the slice is right

By Laura Rance-Unger May 30, 2012

Tony Tweed knew about the unique quality of Canadian bread wheats long before he was recruited to Canada in the mid-1960s to establish its first commercial baking school at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton. “I worked with a lot of Canadian wheat flour in England,” the British-born and -trained baker said. “Everybody

Beef cattle, Opinion

Beleaguered beef purveyors carve out “pink slime” stain

By Michael Hirtzer, P.J. Huffstutter May 31, 2012

Behind the glass meat counter at Casey’s Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations-old tradition. Piece by piece, the men use knives to cut meat and fat off beef carcasses, and grind them into mounds of hamburger. “We’re seeing customers in here that we haven’t seen

Opinion

Food security not a supply issue

By Ron Bonnett May 30, 2012

There has been a lot of debate in the news lately about the Canadian food system. UN Right to Food Rapporteur Olivier De Schutter recently visited Canada and indicated there are currently 800,000 Canadian households that are food insecure. He concluded that Canada has a lot of work to do in making sure more people

Opinion

On rural romanticism and “natural” foods

By Ronald Doering May 30, 2012

The proliferation on our grocery shelves of foods with “natural” claims shows no sign of abating. With the growing recognition that organic food is not any safer, tastier, more nutritious or more sustainable, in spite of the higher price, consumers now want foods that are produced the old-fashioned way on the small family farm. Not

Country Crossroads, News

UN envoy says Canada needs a “right to food strategy”

By Lorraine Stevenson May 30, 2012

The special rapporteur on the right to food's visit marks the first time the UN has  dispatched an official to investigate food insecurity in a developed country

If everyone using a food bank in Manitoba lived in one place, it would be the province’s second-largest city. There are approximately 56,000 Manitobans who lack access to food because they either can’t afford it, or have nowhere to produce any themselves — or both. They are the Manitobans that Winnipeg Harvest has been trying

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives food

FDC now has 18,000 more feet to offer specialized services for food product development

Half-step for Product of Canada labels

Federal food laws face overhaul

Get ready for barbecue season

Head baker makes sure the slice is right

Beleaguered beef purveyors carve out “pink slime” stain

Food security not a supply issue

On rural romanticism and “natural” foods

UN envoy says Canada needs a “right to food strategy”

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