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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Surprise! Suprise!

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I hear via an employee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that this blog's editorial about the lack of surprise inspections has prom...

Gray Ridge squeezes competitors

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Bill Gray of L.H. Gray and Sons Ltd. faced accusations 11 years ago that he used inferior-quality eggs to squeeze out grading-station compet...

Court dates for egg issues postponed

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The key court cases pending on the Ontario egg-industry scandals have been changed from May 10 to June 10. When that day comes in Superior...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Who handles your meat?

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I was thoroughly disgusted today as I listened to meat inspectors testify during a semi-judicial hearing about conditions at Innerkip Specia...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Deregulation on steroids

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Politicians are fond of saying they favour deregulation, but often are thwarted by civil servants who have all kinds of reasons why they oug...
Friday, April 22, 2011

What's wrong with GMO alfalfa?

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The self-righteous organic movement got under my skin again today when I read a story in the Toronto Globe and Mail about the movement’s ...
Monday, April 18, 2011

McGill gains food safety chair

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The so-called leaders in Canadian agriculture and food research have flubbed again, judging by the announcement that McGill University wi...
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Jim Romahn
Journalist who has been reporting on agriculture since 1963; winner of more than 100 awards, including two Govenor- General Awards for Public Service in Journalism plus an honourable mention as one of five finalists plus the 1987 Michener-Deacon fellowship to study and report on biotechnology research in agriculture.
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