Brenda Doner's blog

What's the first thing you think of when you hear "food sovereignty"?

If the answer is "what's that?", here's a great tool to start thinking about who has control over our food systems, and how more food sovereignty can lead to less hunger and more ecologically friendly, safe and healthy food.

New proposed federal regulations threaten BC wild salmon stocks.  Once these regulations pass there will be no further public input on how each salmon feedlot licence is written, how many wild fish they can take and what diseases they must report. The federal licences will be issued without First Nation or other consultation and can be expanded without an environmental assessment.

Ophea is offering free online training geared towards public health staff and community partners (e.g., sport, recreation, health promoters, etc.) working with healthy schools programs and/or programs which support the health and well-being of children and youth in Ontario.

The training will prepare you to:

The Peoples Food Policy Project asks you to get involved in the next phase of this participatory project.

Read discussion papers based on hundreds of cross-country submissions, host a Kitchen Table Talk from October 7 to 17, 2010 read a First Principles Protocol for Building Cross Cultural Relationships or volunteer for the project . 

Do you want to contribute to a healthy, local, sustainable, equitable food system? Are you fluent in French?

Take two minutes to complete our online survey to tell us what online tools you use and help us design our communications and the FSC national assembly, and we'll enter you in a draw to win a free pass to the FSC assembly in Montreal in November - up to a $310 value!

 Feel free to distribute the link to your friends and networks.  We’d appreciate responses by the end of July.  Thanks for your time!

We have posted new briefing notes  - check them out!  The goal of FSC briefing notes is to introduce readers to an issue and give background to FSC members to help in education, debate and public discussions.

We invite you to read, download and distribute them widely.   Please tell us what you think, and where you have used them, by clicking on the "Add comments" link at the bottom of the page, below the webpage text.

The so-called "Enviropig™" could soon be the first genetically modified (GM) (also called genetically engineered or GE) food animal on the market.

Enviropig™ is the trademarked industry name for a pig that has been genetically engineered to excrete less phosphorous in its feces. Enviropig™ was developed by researchers at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

The HOME campaign was launched in April 2010 at The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba Bolivia by a coalition of  international civil society groups, indigenous peoples organizations and social movements, to protest geoengineering experiments proposed as solutions to clima

Jill Eisen argues it’s not meat that’s the problem—it’s the way we raise it.

Tune in to the CBC Radio  program Ideas at 9:04 p.m.  May 17th, 24th and 31st , or learn more here.

•  May 17 Program 1  - factory farming and its problems.
• May 24 Program 2 - explores the arguments for and against eating meat.
• May31 Program 3  - looks at alternative ways of raising livestock and consuming meat.