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• Selling the farm –If Harper has his way, CETA – the biggest trade deal since NAFTA – will be finalized by the end of this year. The agreement has largely escaped the attention of the media and food activists, but if gone unchallenged will deal a heavy blow to food sovereignty in this…
• Recipe for disaster –Monsanto is among a handful of powerful multinationals that, with the support of Western governments, including Canada’s, are priming Vietnam to become a hotbed of biotechnology development, with potentially devastating consequences for its land and people.
• From apple pie and mother’s milk to pop-tarts and formula –Ninety per cent of pregnant families in Canada plan to breastfeed their children. After the recommended six months later, less than 25 per cent of those families are still exclusively breastfeeding. This is a story of severed cultural ties to breastfeeding knowledge; “breast is best” lip service by many care…
• Fair trade and empire –Fair trade marketing and advocacy rely on the idea that fair trade increases connectedness between Global South producers and Global North consumers. But while fair trade does reduce the number of intermediaries in the supply chain as compared to the free trade system, it also serves to reinforce racist and…
• Propagating the food movement –Rhizomes are horizontal, underground plant stems with the ability to create complex root systems. They can expand relentlessly underground, often lying dormant for years, and re-emerge as healthy plants in different locations when the internal and external conditions are right. Each new plant created is connected to the parent but…
• 20 food initiatives to get excited about –A recent study on the Canadian food movement found it to be uniquely “decentralized and self-propagating”:http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/propagating-the-food-movement in comparison to other social movements. Through phone and e-mail conversations with foodies across the country, _Briarpatch_ learned about dozens of inter-connected but independent food-related initiatives that together are crafting a network of more…
• The colour of food –Farm workers and their unions have always been at the forefront of the battle to reduce the toxic pesticides served on our fruits and vegetables, fighting for environmental food standards before most consumers were aware of the concept of organic food. Yet today, many food activists seem concerned solely about…
• Learning to grow –Farming, in my experience, is too rich, too complex, too full of pleasure and agony to be learned from a distance. You need to wade ankle deep into mud, gorge on warm berries, toss bales until your fingers bleed.
• ‘Play in the Hay’ and other agricultural ventures –While there is a long history of some agri-tourist ventures like pick-your-own fruit farms, contemporary agri-tourist ventures are responding to specific contemporary realities: urban ignorance about food production and the economic need to instill a love and appreciation for local food in local customers.
• Feeding the revolution –After years of working for cash-strapped environmental organizations, Rick Morrell founded an organic grocery store in 1996 with the goal of directing profits into the environmental movement. Fifteen years later, Morrell is still struggling to find those profits, but the store has become a mainstay in Regina’s activist community.
• Peak oil for preteens –Claudia Dávila’s debut graphic novel, _Luz Sees the Light_, sets Luz and her friends on a path to transform their fossil-fueled world.
• In defence of the Canadian Wheat Board –Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Prime Minister Stephen Harper have declared they will end the Canadian Wheat Board single desk in August 2012. Recklessly turning the clock back a hundred years, this move will leave farmers at the hands of the robber barons of the grain trade who are already…
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• Open call for submissions! –_Briarpatch_ is seeking submissions on any topic for our January/February 2012 issue.
• Adrangi, Maryam –Maryam Adrangi is a researcher, writer, and organizer involved in struggles for environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty and anti-war. She is an anti-capitalist who believes in you.