Mar 5, 2017
CHARLOTTETOWN. March 5, 2017 Growing concern over corporate marketing for a genetically modified (GM) apple in a March 7 webinar for high-school students has led groups to write a joint letter to provincial Ministers of Education, asking them to remove this product...
Mar 5, 2017
Sondage des consommateurs 2015 Un sondage mené par Ipsos en août 2015 à la demande du RCAB montre qu’en très grande majorité, les Canadiens sont sensibilisés et se sentent préoccupés sur le sujet des aliments OGM : 71% des Canadiens se disent au courant des OGM en...
Mar 5, 2017
Click here for CBAN’s background on the webinar and the program “Agriculture in the Classroom” Friday, March 3, 2017. Charlottetown – Today, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network, Kids Right to Know, the Council of Canadians and Earth Action PEI...
Feb 6, 2017
By Lucy Sharratt, CBAN. Published December 2016 in the BC Organic Grower In March 2015, Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF) got approval for its GM non-browning Golden Delicious and Granny Smith apples in both Canada and the United States. The US government also just...
Feb 2, 2017
The promise that genetically modified crops can “feed the world” is largely used by the biotechnology industry to encourage widespread acceptance of this controversial technology, but it is disconnected from the complex reality of world hunger and the limitations of...
