Industry official fights the image of potatoes as fattening

There’s no denying the impact of the image. A morbidly obese woman struggles up a short flight of stairs, while in the forefront of the advertisement are three servings of french fries, growing from modest to mammoth. “Portion sizes have grown, and so has obesity, which leads to many health problems,” reads the headline of

Local food keeps money in the local economy

What protects a nation’s sovereignty? Is it borders, or the military? Government perhaps? If you ask Winona LaDuke, she would point you to the dinner table. “I don’t think you can say you’re sovereign if you can’t feed yourself,” she said, quoting a fellow Aboriginal activist. The environmentalist, writer, Harvard-educated economist and one-time American vice-presidential


Corporate Universities Toe The Line

ASeptember piece inThe Economist,makes the bold statement that “America’s universities lost their way badly in the era of easy money. If they do not find it again, they may go the way of GM,” the global automotive giant that became a global lemon in less than two generations. The Economistlists some incriminating facts: While “median

Nothing To Hide

Forty-five years may have dimmed a frame or two of memory, but I can still see my father emptying small bags of flour-like powder into a five-gallon bucket and then, slowing stirring in a trickle of water until the two ingredients combined to make a chalky, white cream. The bags contained the still-new, pre-emergent herbicide


U. S. Nutritionists Urge New, Not-As-Sweet Drinks

Soft drink makers should invent and market a new category of semisweet beverages that will help wean Americans off their reliance on sugary drinks, nutrition experts say. They proposed a new class of reduced-calorie beverages with no more than one gram of sugar per ounce, which with about 50 calories is about 70 per cent

Sustainability on NDP’s farm agenda

Panned by critics as a stand-pat plan, and short on plans to improve farm income, the Manitoba government’s throne speech Nov. 20 did draw some credit for plans to encourage farm and rural development. The NDP government’s speech, delivered by Lt.Gov. John Harvard, did note plans for a new Sustainable Agricultural Program as well as