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Beef industry still seeking approval to irradiate ground beef

By Lorraine Stevenson November 21, 2012

Canadian cattle producers sought Health Canada approval to irradiate  ground beef more than 10 years ago. They are still waiting.

The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association once thought it would be just a matter of time before Canadian food companies would get the green light to start irradiating ground beef. That was a decade ago, when the CCA submitted a petition to Health Canada seeking regulatory approval for use of irradiation as another tool to reduce pathogens

Crops, News, Oilseeds

California’s GMO labelling proposal in tight race

By Carey Gillam, Lisa Baertlein November 10, 2012

Reuters / Heavy advertising spending by Monsanto Co. and others opposed to a California ballot proposal to require labels on grocery products containing genetically modified organisms is paying off, according to a new poll that shows the measure has slipped into a virtual tie. Forty-four per cent of California voters now support the measure, while

Hogs, Livestock, News

Flu season is here again — and not just for humans

By Shannon VanRaes October 26, 2012

Claude Vielfaure is rolling up his sleeves, but he’s not heading into the barn, he’s getting his flu shot. “I think it is important to protect yourself against the flu and we like all of our employees to get the shot,” said the La Broquerie hog producer. He was one of dozens to line up

News, Opinion

Measuring food safety

By Ronald Doering July 30, 2012

How safe is our food? What is the economic cost of foodborne illness? How does Canada’s food safety performance compare to other countries? In spite of what you may have read recently, we don’t have clear answers to any of these questions, nor will we anytime soon. Not everything that counts can be counted, as

News

Australian Firm Adds Okra To Build A Better Burger

By Raju Gopalakrishnan November 17, 2011

An Australia-listed company said Nov. 8 it plans to make burgers, chips and other items sold by the country s leading locally owned fast-food operator up to 40 per cent healthier, using the humble okra vegetable and other natural ingredients. Holista Colltech will develop and use the proprietary ingredients for an exclusive period of two

Country Crossroads

RecipeSwap

By Lorraine Stevenson October 13, 2011

Hunger is exclusion. Exclusion from the land, from jobs, wages, income, life and citizenship. When a person gets to the point of having nothing to eat, it is because all the rest has been denied. I keep Josue de Castro s words pinned near my desk, lest I be tempted to believe I m really

Crops, Pulses

PepsiCo Partnership To Boost Ethiopian Chickpeas

By Martinne Geller September 29, 2011

PepsiCo Inc., best known for its cola and Lays potato chips, is now setting its sights on chickpeas. The company is teaming up with the U.S. Agency for International Development to boost the production of chickpeas in Ethiopia by working with small farmers. The plan is then to help develop local businesses that use the

Country Crossroads, Oilseeds

Recipe Swap – for Sep. 29, 2011

By Lorraine Stevenson September 29, 2011

Here s something to think about next time you re adding sugar to your daily cup of joe; the total amount of sugar consumed daily by most Canadians adds up to about 26 teaspoons per day. It works out to about one in every five calories consumed coming from sugar, or 21 per cent of

News

Genetic Analysis Shows E. Coli Strain Is New, Highly Infectious

By Kate Kelland June 9, 2011

Ahighly infectious new strain of E. coli bacteria is causing a deadly outbreak of food poisoning that is spreading from Germany across Europe, scientists said on June 2, raising alarm bells worldwide. Experts in China, part of a global network of laboratories racing to understand the sickness that has so far killed 17 people, said

Country Crossroads

National “Safe Community” Designation Given To Carman And Dufferin

By Lorraine Stevenson May 12, 2011

Everyone had a story of suffering a fall themselves, or knowing someone injured, sometimes seriously, from one, either at home or public place. But until residents of the Carman and surrounding municipality of Dufferin started looking at local injury statistics, no one guessed just how often or how injurious these incidents were. Trips, slips and

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures rise on expectations of tight supplies

U.S. grains: Chicago soybeans fall, but achieve first annual gain in three years

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola unlikely to have a good start to 2026

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