- Abandoning the Public Interest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
- Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Drucker elucidates the scientific facts about genetically engineered foods that the PR myths have been obscuring.
- Canadian authorities jeopardize health of native citizens
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Government fails to adequately inform citizens of possible negative health hazards caused by consuming contaminated whale products.
- Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions Library: Food Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on food.
- Contaminated Meat, Contaminated Water: From Walkerton to Listeria
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The current listeria outbreak has the feel of deja vu all over again. Once again, we are hearing about companies and industry associations lobbying for fewer inspections and less 'interference', and about a compliant right-wing government only too eager to give them what they want.
- The Drug Store in American Meat
We're Eating What?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Food consumers seldom hear about the drugs oestradiol-17, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate and the names are certainly not on meat labels. But those synthetic growth hormones are central to U.S. meat production, especially beef, and the reason Europe has banned a lot of U.S. meat since 1989.
- GMO Propaganda and the Sociology of Science
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In August of 2014, the website Gawker revealed documents that demonstrated the lengths to which the global chemical giant Monsanto would go in order to control the narrative about their products – in particular, their genetically modified crops. While we all like to believe that our scientific/rational brains see through the transparent marketing, public relations rhetoric exists because it greatly sedates critical thought.
- Industrial Production of Poultry Gives Rise to Deadly Strains of Bird Flu H5Nx
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Debunking the claims of industrial poultry producers that multiple outbreaks of bird flu are due to wild waterfowl, instead providing evidence that industrial farming practices are responsible for the outbreak.
- Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Meat inspections slashed
Connexions Digest News Brief, 1989
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
1989 article on greatly reduced inspections of meat products.
- Monsanto's Worst Fear May Be Coming True
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Chipotle restaurant chain decides to make its product lines GMO-free -- a trend that may be a threat to Monsanto's goal of controlling the food industry.
- Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Nutrition Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
Resource Type: Website
- Ontario Farm Animal Council
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Ontario Public Health Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Organic Trade Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
Public Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2018
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
- Pesticides, Neoliberalism and the Politics of Acceptable Death
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In 1900, cancer killed three people in America out of every hundred. Today, it's 33 out of every 100 -- more than one-in-four Americans die from cancer. These figures come from Dr. Joseph Weissman, a professor of medicine at UCLA. Weissman reckons that a fair slice of this explosion in cancer mortality can be laid at the door of petro-chemicals, particularly those used by the food industry.
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2008
- Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology and Bioterrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
A critique of "science-based" approaches to food - simply asking "how big is the risk?" leaves out the question of who is imposing that risk and who is taking it.
- Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- So Shall We Reap
What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food System -- And How to Fix It
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
How everyone who is liable to be born in the next ten thousand years could eat very well indeed; and why, in practice, our immediate descendants are likely to be in serious trouble.
An expose on the fallout of the present drive for maximum food production at rock-bottom cost, as health scares spiral, rural workers are driven off the land, and poor nations are forced to export their goods in an unsympathetic marketplace.
- Sources welcomes the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the welfare of animals raised for food in Canada through public education, legislative change and consumer choice.
- When Food Kills
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
- The World Trade Organization
A Citizen's Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.
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