Rather than use taxpayer-funded ads to fight change, Manitoba should join the rest of the West, as well as other advanced countries, in supporting farmers making their own marketing decisions separate from the Canadian Wheat Board.
Agriculture
Heads Up Government – Ag Assistance Will Be Asked For
Ag Risk Management is Working for Me
We Should Remain Open to All Food Choices
Although everyone should have the right to buy the food they want, whether or not those decisions are healthy or environmentally friendly, individual preferences should not be forced on others or be turned into regulations that restrict the choices of farmers and consumers.
Regulating GMO Seeds
Tom Philpott over at Grist has written a post complaining about the USDA allowing proponents to fund environmental assessment studies required to satisfy Environmental Impact Assessment regulations.
In early April, the USDA made what I’m reading as a second response to Judge White, this one even more craven. To satisfy the legal system’s pesky demand for environmental impact studies of novel GMO crops, the USDA has settled upon a brilliant solution: let the GMO industry conduct its own environmental impact studies, or pay other researchers to.
His complaint makes for a nice sound bite. However, if he is going to prevent
GMO technology developers from sponsoring environmental impact analysis, is he proposing to prohibit that practice in the pharmaceutical sector? Should new drugs be held off the market until government researchers get around to conducting their own research on the safety of new medications?
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Show Me the Money
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Wheat Board Needs to Develop a Backbone
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Powerpoint slides from Dr. Al Loyns discusses Wheat Board politics . . .
Airing Out the Wet Blanket
The outdated monopoly power of the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) sits like a wet blanket over the entire Prairie economy. From plant breeders through to the farm gate and on to our rural communities, into our cities and right to our ports, the dampening effect is widespread, pervasive and tangible.
Free the Grain
One writer’s opinions as to why the Canadian Wheat Board deserves to be dismantled.
Witnesses Question Voters List Changes
Everyone involved in the CWB dispute seems to have an opinion. Here are some sides of the debate.
Wheat Board Fast Track Urged
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