Setting up a Spiral of GMO Contamination

Legalizing “Low-Level Presence” of Unapproved GMOs By Lucy Sharratt, CBAN Published in British Columbia Organic Grower, Volume 21, Issue 2. Spring 2018. Contamination from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is a problem for some crop types. For example, most...

Golden Rice assumptions wrong

Letter to the Editor, published in The Western Producer, April 12, 2018   The editorial, “Health Canada is obligated to approve Golden Rice,” (WP, April 5), interprets the department’s decision as a “humanitarian gesture,” but that is an assumption — an incorrect...

USA Approves Bayer-Monsanto Mega-Merger

Canada could be next   April 10, 2018. On Monday April 9, the Wall Street Journal reported that the United States Department of Justice has agreed to allow a merger between seed and pesticide companies Bayer and Monsanto, creating the largest seed and pesticide...