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Canadian wheat and the biofuels lobby

January 23, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

While the world is potentially on the cusp of a new “green revolution”, Canadians should be weary of our government’s supposedly “green” policies.
Bill C-33, an act to amend the 1999 Environmental Protection act to require mandatory 5% biofuel content in diesel, for example, was given royal assent last year. In proposing the bill, the [...]

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It Isn’t About Free Range Chickens; It’s About Scale

January 16, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Yesterday the Globe & Mail published an article with the ominous title “the dark side of ‘free range’ chickens”. The article suggests that free range chickens are prone to disease and other problems:
“We found that there was a higher occurrence of bacterial diseases, parasite disease in birds housed in the litter-based systems,” said Oddvar Fossum, [...]

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How the Dairy System in Canada Operates

January 10, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

Canadian dairy is a bit of a complicated issue to examine. On one hand, dairy production itself in Canada is highly regulated with stable markets and prices for producers and one of the more democratic agricultural sectors with much of the industry made up of small family farms. On the other, the dairy industry is [...]

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