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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Hog manure spreads antibiotic resistance

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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found that 11 per cent of people who are resistant to methicillin antibiotics ...

Raw milk cheese kills one, sickens 10 more

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Gouda cheese made on farm from unpasteurized milk has been blamed for the death of one person and 10 others are sick, including on...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Soy diesel increases pollution

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Europeans have found that biodiesel made from soybean oil is twice as polluting as fossil-fuel diesel. That has prompte...

E. coli vaccine could cut food poisonings by 85 per cent

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A new British study says vaccinating cattle against E. coli 0157:H7 could cut food poisonings from the poison-producing...

McGivern defies chicken board

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Sean McGivern, founder of Practical Farmers of Ontario, is openly challenging the authority of the Chicken Farmers of Ontario mark...

Mystery surrounds CNE cronut burger crisis

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There’s a mystery involved in the food poisoning of at least 90 people who bought cronut burgers during the Canadian Nation...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Feds blow $3.1 million

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Congratulations to the Manitoba Co-operator for digging into the failure of a proposal to start a health foods business in a tiny Manitoba c...
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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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