Dec 19, 2019
Welcome to CBAN’s Year-End Catch-Up! Our Yule Blog is an occasion for us to share some of the important news and analysis that you may have missed this year, with some info or implications that we didn’t have a chance to share. All year long, we monitor a wide range...
Apr 10, 2019
Published in British Columbia Organic Grower, The Journal for the Certified Organic Associations of BC (COABC), Winter 2019. By Lucy Sharratt, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network For 20 years, the world’s biggest seed and pesticide companies have profited...
Dec 20, 2018
The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network provides you with this special year-end e-news to highlight critical new issues and recap some important stories you may have missed this year. 2018 was a year of mergers and escapes. Illegal rogue genetically modified (GM,...
Oct 11, 2018
Canadians are the first in the world to eat a genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) fish, thanks in part to over $8 million in federal government funding behind its development. The government is set to receive 10% royalties from sales relating to the GM...
Apr 24, 2018
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...
Apr 17, 2018
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...
