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DOW Formalizes NAFTA Challenge to Quebec Pesticide Ban

Thumbnail image for DOW Formalizes NAFTA Challenge to Quebec Pesticide Ban June 26, 2009 by Jon Steinman

In some provinces across the country, walking outside your house in the morning will no longer be greeted with a breath of fresh chemicals being applied to your next-door neighbour’s lawn.
Quebec was the first to implement a province-wide cosmetic pesticide ban, similar to those within municipalities being enacted throughout Canada on the use of chemicals [...]

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A Primer on Pesticide Propaganda: the Pesticide Lobby

Thumbnail image for A Primer on Pesticide Propaganda: the Pesticide Lobby May 27, 2009 by Jon Steinman

“Researchers were able to demonstrate that current scientific knowledge does not sup¬port the idea that a switch to organic and sustainable agriculture would drastically lower food production and lead to hunger.” – M. Jahi Chappell, co-author, Organic Agriculture and the Global Food Supply
On April 22, the Province of Ontario implemented a ban on the “cosmetic” [...]

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