The items found below contain some links to notable reports, events, discoveries and sundry other matters, mostly related to food and health.
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The Conservative federal government defeats a bill designed to reduce dangerous amounts of sodium in Canadian prepared foods that is responsible for billions in unnecessary health costs and an estimated 9,000 premature deaths. For further details see –
http://www.cspinet.org/canada/foodsodium.htm
What’s on Your Plate? The Hidden Costs of Industrial Animal Agriculture in Canada
World Society for the Protection of Animals
This new report exposes the destructive effects of factory farming in Canada on human health, the environment and the welfare of the animals we eat:
World Society for the Prevention of Animals (WSPA)
FARM START response to media attack on sourcing local food:
Graham Riches on the human right to food:
