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Melamine Scandal: The Risky Business of Global Food Trade

by Susan MacVittieThe nitrogen-rich industrial chemical Melamine was added to watered-down milk to mask the resulting protein deficiency and fool quality tests. Offshore outsourcing has been a boon to...

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Decreasing Waste Will Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

by Susan MacVittie While governments and industry draft pages of policy to try to clean up the issue of reducing greenhouse gases, the bid for a zero waste approach just got stronger. Stop Trashing the...

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The Ecology is the Economy; Hyperinflation as Natural Resources Deminish

Ecologists ignore that everything we use rests on the earth's natural resources. We now see that our galloping economies rely on handouts, massive debt, war, abuse, waste, and a diminished earth....

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Health Canada Assesses BPA in Products

by Delores Broten In October, the Canadian government broke the mould and followed through on its announcement of the first measures in the world to control exposure to bisphenol A (BPA). The chemical...

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Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SWAP)

Migrant workers are brought into Canada to fill the "labour shortage" created by low wages and unsatisfactory working conditions in order to make profit.  by Adriana PazSome say that nothing happens by...

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Food Not Bombs; Sharing the Surplus with Hungry People

by Susan MacVittie When feeding hungry people free food in a public space is against the law and those doing so are criminalized and face incarceration, we are no longer living in interesting times,...

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Government Neglects Laws to Regulate Environmental Impacts

by Rob WiltzenA new Reach for Unbleached! report, Pulp and Paper Pollution: The Toxic Legacy of Federal Neglect has found that the federal government has neglected their responsibility to enact and...

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Public Willpower Makes Changes for a Sustainable Future

Can you envision a BC that doesn’t cut old growth forest any more, has endangered species legislation, bans toxic chemicals, puts transit before freeways, wants to see our power stay public and our...

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Going Up to the Landfill in the Sky

by Delores Broten Its proponents call it “Waste to Energy” or WTE, but recycling advocates call it “The Landfill in the Sky.” The great incineration debate, which the environmental movement had pretty...

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Healthier Options of Plastics in Food Packaging

Plastics are widely used to store and package foods and beverages. Plastic is convenient, lightweight, unbreakable and relatively inexpensive. However, there are both environmental and health risks...

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