2nd Annual Slow Food Seminar
From Climate Change Connections – The 2nd annual Eat Slow event by Slow Food Winnipeg is taking place on Saturday, May 15! Continue reading 2nd Annual Slow Food Seminar
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Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Taras Grescoe
Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers
2008, 326 pages.
Do you treat yourself to oysters or salmon from time to time? Are you tempted by tiger shrimp? Is tuna your comfort food?
If you are among the billions of people around the world who enjoy fish and other delicacies from the sea, this book is for you. Depending on which types of seafood you consume, you may be driving a species toward extinction, or contributing unknowingly to the destruction of coastal ecosystems and the local human communities that depend on them. Closer to home, you may be putting your own health at risk…. [Click here to read more!] Continue reading Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food is Making Us Sick
Food in Canada has never been cheaper: only 10 per cent of our income is now spent in the grocery store, half of what this number was 40 years ago. Yet for most Canadians, decisions about what to eat have become a matter of high anxiety. Continue reading Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food is Making Us Sick
Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods and Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment
ased on his analysis of dozens of studies, reports and personal accounts, Smith reveals shocking instances when governments and corporations misled, lied and covered up evidence about the health and safety risks of GM foods. These deceptions allowed the products to be fast-tracked to the market, thereby externalizing the costs of this infant science. Continue reading Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods and Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment
St. John’s Farmers’ Market
The second season of the St. John’s Farmers’ Market got off to an exciting start on Saturday, June 6th, 2009 with record-breaking attendance. Over 1400 people hungry for local food showed up and caused many vendors to sell out early. The market has have a variety of old and new vendors, workshops, music, fresh coffee and a fantastic feeling of community for the whole family. Continue reading St. John’s Farmers’ Market
FEASt: Food Education Action St.John’s
FEASt: Food Education Action St.John is a working collective of individuals and organizations taking action on local, sustainable food issues. Continue reading FEASt: Food Education Action St.John’s
Food Security Network of Newfoundland & Labrador (FSN)
The Food Security Network of Newfoundland & Labrador (FSN) is a provincial, membership-based, non-profit organization which began in 1998 in … Continue reading Food Security Network of Newfoundland & Labrador (FSN)
Citizens’ Environment Watch
Citizen’s Environment Watch, a non-profit environmental organization, is commissioning Toronto artists to create one-of-a-kind art pieces using rubber boots and … Continue reading Citizens’ Environment Watch
Bike Further, Eat Closer
Two students from from Vancouver and Victoria B.C. plan to rider their bikes to Argentina and back all in the … Continue reading Bike Further, Eat Closer
Local is the New Organic
The Growing Movement to know your Farmer and your Food It used to be that organic was enough. That organic … Continue reading Local is the New Organic
Deconstructing Thought For Food
Alternatives’ Thought for Food (32.3) inspires a broadcast of Jon Steinman’s Deconstructing Dinner, a radio program from Kootenay Co-op Radio … Continue reading Deconstructing Thought For Food
Pesticides are what is killing our kids
Rural PEI is an unlikely hotbed of rare cancers, and one doctor has made it his mission to raise awareness … Continue reading Pesticides are what is killing our kids