Publications

We outline basic facts as well as provide in-depth information about the use of genetic engineering (genetically modified organisms or GMOs) and the complex issues that they raise. We provide this information in many different formats, for consumers and farmers. We research many important questions raised by the use of this technology in food and farming, including the potential environmental, social and economic impacts.

Factsheets

Genetically Modified Crops and Herbicides, March 2023

Introduction to the Genetically Engineered American Chestnut, February 2023

Pamphlets

Why Your Food Choices Matter. 2020

No GM Fish. February 2020

Intro to Gene Editing. January 2019

CBAN’s Quick Guide to GM Foods

GM Alfalfa Update and Action Handouts:

• For Ontario Farmers. January 2017
• For Prairie Farmers. November 2016

GMO Inquiry Report Summary Pamphlets:

• Where in the World are GM Crops and Foods?
• Are GM Crops Better for the Environment?
• Are GM Foods Better for Consumers?
• Are GM Crops Better for Farmers?
• Are GM Crops and Foods Well Regulated?
• Do We Need GM Crops and Foods to Feed the World?

Why Your Food Choices Matter: A Guide to Local and Ecologically Grown Food

Postcards

GM Food Chart Postcard: What’s in my fridge?

Reports

• The Global Status of Genetically Engineered Tree Development: A Growing Threat.

• New proposals would eliminate transparency on GMOs in Canada

• Unintended effects caused by techniques of new genetic engineering create a new quality of hazards and risk

• GMO Review

• GMOs in your grocery store: Ranking company transparency

• Genome Editing in Food and Farming: Risks and Unexpected Consequences

• “Golden Rice” – GM Vitamin-A Rice

• GM Contamination in Canada: The failure to contain living modified organisms – Incidents and impacts

• GMO Inquiry: Do We Need GM Crops to Feed the World?

• GMO Inquiry: Are GM Crops and Foods Well Regulated?

Posters

Where are Genetically Modified Foods?

Articles & Editorials

• “Enhancing” Trees and Fixing Ecosystems with Genetic Engineering

• Trading in Forest Stewardship?

• Will Forest Stewardship Include GE Trees?

• Stop the shift to corporate self-regulation of GMOs

• Consumers to eat new gene edited foods with no government safety checks

• Gene Drives – Engineering the Wild

• Maintaining public trust in food system requires public regulation

• Trust in gene-edited foods requires government oversight

• Health Canada proposal would allow companies to sell many genetically engineered foods without government safety assessments

• CRISPR Crunch: Regulation to go missing for next generation GMOs?

Briefings to Government

• Comments on the proposed federal Sustainable Agriculture Strategy

• Comments to ECCC on Part 6 CEPA & New Substance Notification Regulations (Organisms) pre-consultation

• Comments submitted to ECCC on GM fruit fly “EntoEngine”

• Comments to the United States Department of Agriculture re: “Darling 58” GM American Chestnut

• Response to ECCC: Protect the Monarch butterfly as an endangered species

• GMO regulatory changes jeopardize safety and remove transparency

• Proposals on GMO regulation jeopardize safety and remove transparency

• MP Briefing: Regulatory guidance proposals on gene edited foods and seeds

• CBAN comments to CFIA: Guidance for determining whether a plant is subject to Part V of the Seeds Regulations

• CBAN Comments to Health Canada re: primer on gene editing