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Animal Welfare Is Of Global Importance

By Alexis Kienlen February 10, 2011

Animal welfare is increasingly on consumers’ radar screens, and is now starting to be seen as a standard of good business, says a University of Calgary animal-welfare specialist. Animal-care standards are being used to differentiate between products and are creating favourable trading opportunities for countries with the best ones, Dr. Ed Pajor told the recent

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Women’s Involvement Declining

By Lorraine Stevenson October 28, 2010

The suffrage movement is one of history’s finest examples of the kind of social change a united women’s voice can achieve. Yet women today seem mostly absorbed by their private lives, unable or uninterested in engaging in the social and political activism of a few decades ago. “We’ve not been as ardent as we need

Country Crossroads

MWI Rolls Out “Women In Leadership” Series

By Lorraine Stevenson September 30, 2010

Rural women who aspire to leadership roles but also ask “what does it take?” may find some answers in a series of workshops beginning next month. Four workshops will be held over the next eight weeks featuring speakers and panel discussions devoted to building capacity among rural women eyeing greater involvement in the voluntary sector.

Country Crossroads

Many Toddler And Baby Foods Too Sweet – for Aug. 5, 2010

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff August 5, 2010

Fifty-three per cent of food products specifically targeted to babies and toddlers in Canadian grocery stores have an excessive proportion – more than 20 per cent – of calories coming from sugar, according to a new study by University of Calgary Professor Charlene Elliott. The study, funded by the Centre for Science in the Public

Hogs, Livestock, News

Gestation Stalls Could Become Canada-U. S. Trade Issue

By Ron Friesen April 15, 2010

“Do you think they will be friendly to product coming in that’s produced in a different manner?” – ED PAJOR Canada may eventually have to ban gestation stalls for pregnant sows if it wants to continue exporting to the United States, where such bans are occurring. A leading Canadian animal welfare scientist warns the spread

News

“Alternative” Systems Get Mainstream Funding

By Lorraine Stevenson February 11, 2010

“We’re thinking about more diverse ways of building relationships across the Prairie provinces. We’re not talking about 100-mile diets here.” – STPHANE MCLACHLAN The federal government is providing $1 million for a five-year project in Manitoba to develop more community-based alternative food systems for rural, urban and northern Manitoba. The Community University Research Alliance (CURA)

Cereals, News, Oilseeds

Ballots In The Mail For MCGA Election

By Allan Dawson November 19, 2009

“The best thing I could hope for is that as soon as a person gets a ballot they mark it and send it back.” – BILL ROSS Six farmers – four incumbents and two others – are running to fill four directors’ seats around the Manitoba Canola Growers Association’s (MCGA) board table. The incumbents seeking

Livestock

DNA May Lead To BSE Blood Test

February 12, 2009

Scientists at the University of Calgary say they may have found a common DNA denominator in animals with BSE or related diseases. That, in turn, may mean BSE could eventually be confirmed simply and cheaply by a live blood test. Such a testing method would likely be the grail of BSE research. Confirming BSE currently

News

Food agency picks advisory panel

By Alex Binkley November 20, 2008

“We didn’t meet the expectations of Canadians in dealing with listeria and that has had a profound effect on the CFIA.” – Brian Evans, Canadian Food Inspection Agency Executive Vice-President The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is turning to outside experts for advice in battling food safety threats. It has named four academics to an advisory

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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