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Science Loses In Raw Milk Debate

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While most healthy people will recover in a week or so from small exposure to the pathogens that can be present in raw milk, for people with weakened immune systems such as the elderly, children and people with cancer, organ transplants or HIV/AIDS, exposure is dangerous, even fatal. There is a broad scientific consensus that
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Rural Doctors Should Come From Rural Communities

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“Once you have people in the community, how are you going to keep them there? You really want to keep them there.” – DR. PETER WELLS Delivering medical care in rural areas is full of special challenges, says Dr. John Wootton, president-elect for the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada. “Canadians in rural Canada are
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FAO On Disease Alert

The global threat from the animal sickness foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has increased after recent outbreaks in Japan and South Korea, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said April 28. “We … have to ask ourselves if we aren’t facing a possible replay of the disastrous 2001 FMD transcontinental epidemic which spread to South
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Battling World Hunger By Increasing Global Production?

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U. S. farmers began to believe that they had a responsibility to increase production and exports so that the hungry of the world could be fed. For some time now, we have focused our attention on the twin issues of production and exports of major crops as a way of examining the export-oriented policies that
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Two Ranchers Fined Over Refusal To TB Test

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“If you are not prepared to do this, I suggest that you get out of the cattle business.” – JUDGE JOHN COMBS Two convictions under the Health of Animals Act in a Brandon courtroom April 16 have sent a clear message that refusing to comply with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in testing for bovine
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Take Steps To Prevent Against Rabies

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Rabies is a fatal viral infection that kills an estimated 35,000 to 50,000 people and millions of animals around the world each year. North Dakota State University Extension Service veterinarian Charlie Stoltenow is urging people to prevent themselves and their animals from becoming infected. The most common way to get rabies is from a bite
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Feeling Full, Satisfying Hunger

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The food, beverage and supplement weight management product market in the U. S. last year was $3.64 billion and growing fast. For the industry, beyond the traditional claims such as low fat (food minus), a burgeoning new field involves a shift to satiety claims (food plus). Foods marketed for satiety have enhanced levels of fibre
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Food Makers Support More U. S. Control Of School Food

Four major food and beverage makers announced support March 18 for legislation expanding U. S. control over snacks sold at schools and allowing the government to ban junk food from campuses. It would be the first crackdown on school snacks in three decades but the compromi se stops short of proposals, made in the past,
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Is Salt Becoming The Next Trans Fat?

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While there is always some scientific uncertainty in matters of regulatory science, in our Jan. 21 article (“Hold the salt,” Co-operator, page 5) we saw there is now a strong scientific consensus that Canadians on average are consuming more than double the recommended daily intake of sodium (1,500 mg), and that there is strong evidence

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