Food Security Costs
How the EU implicitly encourages rejection of GM ag As a researcher, I have dedicated considerable time to the coexistence of GM, conventional and organic …
Policy
Politics More Important Than Food Security
EU Challenges FAO It’s not easy to be on the same page with someone else, let alone ask multiple nations to place the same importance …
Risk versus Knowledge
Framing what is known against what is not Society is challenged, and at times troubled, as it grapples with what is known and what it …
The Practice of “Owning” Plant Patents
Patenting plants and the processes to create them When you think about plant patents, it might surprise you to learn that the first plant patent …
The Skinny on Future Canadian Food Label Changes
SAIFood is always concerned about the use of food labels and what message they convey to consumers. The label which can be the most confusing …
British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve
To what extent should we support ARL? By Lindsay Pollard, University of Saskatchewan student British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) was put into place in …
National Academy of Science’s GM Crop Consensus
Science is the standard that has been used for decades to find solutions, innovate and improve efficiencies, but increasingly, society is less certain about science …
Starvation or GMO Food Aid, Which Would You Prefer?
Playing politics over reducing chronic malnutrition & food insecurity, it’s time this ends! Every year, somewhere in the world, drought is an agricultural problem. Some …
Post Foods ‘A+’ in Scamming Consumers
Is Post Foods intentionally misleading consumers? It is final exam time at universities, students will soon find out if their hard work and efforts are …
Save our……Cows, Farms, & Milk
By Shelby Devet, University of Saskatchewan student I would like you to take a moment to think back to when times were simpler when there …