In the Media

The April issue of the EcoNews newsletter starts with an article about organic food and cancer. Natural compounds called salvestrols, found only in organic fruits and vegetables, apparently helped about 50% of the people who took the supplement.This is still work in progress, but looks very promising.

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...on March 24, Canada's continued efforts to undermine and eventually eliminate the ban on so-called terminator seed technology suffered a severe setback.

Read the whole article at The Tyee:
http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/04/03/LetsCheerOurDefeat/

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Charging the true cost of "food miles" could change the way people eat. Fourth in a series

http://thetyee.ca/Life/2005/08/12/TravelledFood/

The Thursday issue of the Dose (July 28) runs an article about the growth of the organic industry:
DOSE Story - Organics Industry Growing

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"Words that people didn't used to know, like social responsibility and organic, are much more pervasive in everyday society," says LIANETTI. "It's kind of reached its tipping point, and from here I think it's only going to increase."

From May 1 to May 15 were the National Fair Tradeⁱ Weeks. The May issue of the Common Ground magazine has an article about this event and they present a list of local companies that are contributing to the fair trade market development.

Almost all companies mentioned by Commond Ground are in the organic food sector. Two thumbs up for all of them!