Genetically Modified Cattle

05/19/2015

GM cattle could aid in the sub-Saharan economy and health In Africa, farm size is dictated by the number of… Read More

How Genomics is Changing Plant Breeding

05/12/2015

From the Human Genome Project to plant breeding, genomic research is here to stay The desire to know more about… Read More

Conning the Consumer: Chipotle

05/05/2015

Chipotle’s move to go Non-GMO Last week, Chipotle, an American fast food company, announced that it has removed all GM… Read More

To Label or Not to Label: That is the Food for Thought

04/28/2015

The March approval of GM Arctic apples by Health Canada (HC) triggered considerable debate over whether they should be labelled… Read More

The Vital Role Chemicals have for Current Agriculture

04/21/2015

Since the World Health Organization’s International Agency of Research on Cancer (IARC) decision to classify five pesticides as carcinogenic (last… Read More

Risk Management vs. Risk Avoidance:

04/14/2015

Who to Believe in the Glyphosate Debate?   Have you hear? Glyphosate could kill you. Well that’s not the full… Read More

The Change in How Risk is Assessed

04/08/2015

Risk impacts all aspects of life. Typically the riskiest thing we do every day is drive to work. Traditionally, risks… Read More

How Chemical Use Has Changed in Prairie Agriculture

03/31/2015

Environmental groups that are opposed to the use of innovative crop technologies such as genetically modified (GM) crops that are… Read More

A(mbiguous) & W(rong): A&W

03/24/2015

How A&W Canada supports Unstainable AgricultureI miss A&W’s onion rings. The reason I miss them is that I no longer… Read More

Agri-vated over Bacon!

03/17/2015

I enjoy grocery shopping, but I’m increasingly becoming agri-vated by labelling and how food companies misuse labels to market products… Read More