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Fruits and vegetables in a store. Image credit: Mehrad Vosoughi/Unsplash
Health Canada considers abandoning safety assessments for new genetically engineered foods
Lucy Sharratt | Health Canada is consulting Canadians on proposals to exempt some new genetically engineered foods -- genetically modified organisms or GMOs -- from government regulation.
Columnists
Green wheat plants. Image credit: Artem Kniaz/Unsplash
Spring brings need for vigilance on food and seed rights
Lois Ross | Spring is a time to consider seeds -- to think about their link to safe and quality foods, and to the rights of farmers.
Podcast
Robin Bicknell talks about her film 'The Genetic Revolution'
'What kind of child would you like to have?' -- film explores implications of new developments in genetics
Face2Face | Robin Bicknell talks to David Peck talk about her film "The Genetic Revolution," our complex genetic relationships and the ethical issues around tampering with our genetic makeup.
Blog
Genetically modified corn. Photo by Maggilautaro/ Wikimedia Commons.
USMCA will mean more genetically modified foods on your dinner table
Brent Patterson | The biotechnology industry is celebrating NAFTA 2.0 as a win for genetically engineered foods.
News
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Remembering Shiv Chopra
Peter Biesterfeld | The former Health Canada scientist and whistleblower was a hero of the non-GMO movement.
Blog
Good food is never cheap and cheap food is never good
Doreen Nicoll | Consider the political, social, economic and environmental impacts your food purchases have today and for generations to come.
Blog
Photo: European Parliament/Pietro Naj-Oleari/flickr
Could CETA mean genetically modified apples from Canada exported to Europe?
Brent Patterson | There is a process within CETA that would promote regulatory harmonization and address non-tariff barriers that could allow the export of genetically modified apples into Europe.
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Photo: A protest against GMOs in the European Parliament. Photo by Euractiv
CETA should have a GMO warning label on it in Europe
Brent Patterson | The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the U.S.-European Union Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will increase the risk of GM food entering Europe.
RabbleTV
Video: Rachel Parent schools Kevin O'Leary on GMOs
rabble staff | Fourteen-year-old Rachel Parent challenged CBC's Kevin O'Leary on the dangers of GMOs and Monsanto.
Podcast
Smash the State Report: Apr. 5, 2013
Dan Kellar, [email protected] Radio | Lots of #noLine9 + pipeline, along with other Indigenous sovereignty news. Fighting over alfalfa, finding toxic fish + losing to a beetle. BDS + anti-CAS updates, War resisters + resisting authority.
Podcast
Smash the State Report: Feb. 08, 2013
Dan Kellar, [email protected] Radio | Snowshoeing for safety, learning your history to avoid being racist, and stopping nuclear processing in toronto kick off the episode which continues on...
Blog
California rejects GM food labelling
Brent Patterson | California rejects Proposition 37 – which would have made it the first U.S. state to require food companies to identify genetically modified (GM) ingredients.