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Is Vegan Farming the Next Plant-Based Phenomenon?

August 5, 2017 Ken Billings
In what may become a growing trend, two young farmers in California’s Salinas Valley have completely eliminated animal products from their farming practices.

Is Vegan Farming the Next Plant-Based Phenomenon?

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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthSaturday, August 12th, 2017 at 2:31am
Comprehensive read on pesticide hazards.
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Ottawa ignoring hazards of top pesticides sold in Canada
Canada's pesticide regulator, the PMRA, is accused of turning a blind eye to problems with three of the most popular pesticides on the market.
nationalobserver.com
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthSunday, August 6th, 2017 at 4:09am
'Seven of 27 beef sausages examined in the study contained pork. One of 38 supposedly pure pork sausages contained horse meat. Of 20 chicken sausages, four also contained turkey and one also had beef. Five of the 15 turkey sausages studied contained no turkey at all — they were entirely chicken.' - Tests were only done for turkey, chicken, pork, beef and horse, leaving a serious question mark as to what other off-label properties these products might contain.
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Where's the beef? 1 in 5 sausages tested across Canada contained different meat than labelled, study finds
About 20 per cent of sausages sampled from grocery stores across Canada contained meats that weren't on the label, according to a federally funded study.
cbc.ca
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthThursday, August 3rd, 2017 at 4:38am
For those following the 'how low can corruption go' global food safety drama: "The most shocking revelation of the disclosed documents is that the editor of Food and Chemical Toxicology, A. Wallace Hayes, entered into a consulting agreement with Monsanto in the period just before Hayes’s involvement in the retraction of the Séralini study."
Uncovered: Monsanto campaign to get Séralini study retracted
Documents released in US cancer litigation show Monsanto’s desperate attempts to suppress a study that showed adverse effects of Roundup herbicide – and that the editor of the journal that retracted the study had a contractual relationship with the company. Claire Robinson reports
gmwatch.org
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthThursday, August 3rd, 2017 at 3:50am
Interesting read from a farmer's perspective "Reed estimates he saves $80 per acre with non-GMO cotton versus biotech cotton."
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Non-GMO Project
To boost profits, this farmer transitioned to planting non-GMO crops.
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthTuesday, August 1st, 2017 at 4:15am
Organic industry in Canada is small but growing. "Over 55 per cent of Canadian consumers purchase organic products on a weekly basis, and over 80 per cent of these consumers have maintained or increased their organic purchases in the last year," Canada Organic Trade Association reports.
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Organic Council of Ontario
This piece focuses on the more positive message coming out of COTA's recent organic sector report: the fact that the organic sector in this country is growing by more than 10% each year.
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthSunday, July 30th, 2017 at 9:12am
Together, the library contains more than 200,000 pages of information and “lays out a 40-year history of deceit and collusion involving the chemical industry and the regulatory agencies that were supposed to be protecting human health and the environment,” said Peter von Stackelberg, a journalist who along with the Center for Media and Democracy and the Bioscience Resource Project helped put the collection online.
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100,000 Pages of Chemical Industry Secrets Gathered Dust in an Oregon Barn for Decades — Until Now
Carol Van Strum didn’t set out to be the repository for the people’s pushback against toxic chemicals. Then her land was sprayed with 2,4,5-T.
theintercept.com
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthThursday, July 27th, 2017 at 4:49am
In January 2014 GMO-Free Windsor-Essex hosted Health Canada whistleblower Dr. Shiv Chopra on his national speaking tour. Dr. Chopra spoke to three packed halls about the need for citizens to mobilize and demand Health Canada stop breaking the Food and Drugs Act and make Canada's food system healthy and safe again.
Dr. Shiv Chopra & 5 Pillars of Food Safety
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthThursday, July 27th, 2017 at 1:21am
Victoria-based 'healthy futures' activist Linda Marguerite Morken is advocating for long overdue changes to Canada's Food Guide.
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Let’s Change Canada’s Food Guide
When I first learned that a large group of Canadian physicians had signed on to a petition to change Canada’s food guide what really grabbed my attention was a reference to this book in the open...
alternativeboomerlegacy.com
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthTuesday, July 25th, 2017 at 1:28pm
Stand Up - For Food Safety
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthFriday, July 21st, 2017 at 6:30am
A national food policy survey. The government wants to hear from citizens. Have your say. You have one week.
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Have your say! - Canada.ca
When it comes to developing A Food Policy for Canada, what matters to you?
canada.ca
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthWednesday, July 19th, 2017 at 7:34am
Steven Druker wins Luxembourg Environmental Peace Prize
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Non-GMO Project
The author of the book, 'Altered Genes Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public' wins the Luxembourg Environmental Peace Prize.
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Canadian Council on Food Sovereignty and HealthFriday, July 14th, 2017 at 1:45am
GM Technology and Unintended Consequences.
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The GMO Agenda Takes a Menacing Leap Forward with EPA’s Silent Approval of Monsanto/Dow’s RNAi Corn
Without much more than a whisper from the mainstream media, Monsanto’s newest Frankenfood has received full EPA approval and will be arriving on dinner plates by the end of the decade.
greenmedinfo.com
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Food Sovereignty Can @foodsov
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 at 1:50am
Corruption in food system safety knows no lows @L_MacAulay @AAFC_Canada https://t.co/4XVhgaFC4u
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2017 at 1:30am
Organic industry thriving with 'dble digit growth over past decade.' But report seeks greater government support for organics @L_MacAulay https://t.co/ncStuwepq2
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In reply to Shiv Chopra
Tuesday, July 25th, 2017 at 10:55am
@shivchopracom call to action video on the Five Pillars of Food Safety - Stand Up! https://t.co/4qLkYPGwXJ
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