Canada’s Rye-or-Die Bread Choice
Canadians love sandwiches. Whether you’re enjoying a heavily stacked beef dip from the diner two streets over or packing a quick peanut butter and jelly …
Consumers
Market Failure or Slow Transition? Lessons in Cottage Cheese
Since 2019, the public health and food innovation spaces have focused on increasing protein consumption. We can pinpoint some of this obsession to the rise …
Announcing the Launch of the Agricultural Knowledge Mobilization Lab!
With the amount of information in the world, it can be easy to get lost in mixed messaging, scientific half-truths, and outright false information. Confidence …
Pressed by Espresso
The Heated Price of Coffee My morning starts with multiple cups of coffee. No, no individual needs that much caffeine at once, but I like …
Preservatives: What are We Risking for Shelf Life?
Agriculture Myth Busting Food preservatives have been linked to a variety of scary health concerns. High blood pressure, allergies, cancer, diabetes, digestion complications… when you …
Healthier Food Through Gene Editing
Innovations in agriculture focus on every facet of producing a crop, from developing hardier varieties to higher yields and better disease resistance to increased nutrition. …
Nutrition Hacks and the Protein Obsession
By 2050, we are expected to globally consume twice the protein we currently do. Through various blogs on SAIFood, we have been tracking the growing …
We Let our Horse Racing Industry Go
The Role of Economics in Canadian Track Closures It’s horse racing season. Rather, for Canadians, it should be. Despite being one of mankind’s oldest sports and contributing $8.7 billion annually to the economy, Canada is disappearing from the thoroughbred racing industry. The horse racing bioeconomy, regardless …
Does it Make Affordability Cents? What Manitoba’s PST Removal says about Food Security
I don’t know about you, but I am desensitized to sales tax. Between goods and services tax (GST), provincial sales tax (PST), and, where applicable, …
Joining the European Union Would be Disastrous for Canadian Agriculture and Raise Food Prices for Canadian Consumers
According to a Nanos Research poll released on April 13, 2026, 57% of Canadians support joining the European Union (EU). This would be an unmitigated …