Issue 302

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Evolution: The story of The Ram's Horn and how it is aging gracefully
Who Makes Policy?: Just how Cargill makes Canada's agricultural policy
"Saving lives", Making Profits: The legacy of Norman Borlaug in the destruction of agro-ecology and sustainable food systems
Courts Act in the Public Interest: Acting in defense of the common good, Brazil federal court reverses approval for CM corn
How to Escape Liability: The US Secretary of Agriculture sets the assumption that GE contamination is an inevtiable and acceptable cost of doing business
Cargill Refuses Syngenta's GE Corn: China is rejecting this product, and it makes business sense for Cargill to refuse to handle it
"Science-based" Decisions: In Whose Interest?: Excerpts from two articles which reinforce a healthy scepticism
"Clogged": Canada's government orders the railways to solve the problem of grain shipping that they created themselves when they destroyed the Canadian Wheat Board
Public Plant Breeding Attacked: An article from the National Farmers Union analysing the shuttering of the Cereal Research Centre, one of the last of Canada's public agriculture institutions
Crop Rotation is Best Protection: Even Dow Agrosciences admits that the old-fashioned way is still the primary tool to combat pests
Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Review of a book that asks interesting questions about the development of the food movement in Canada
Stifling Peasant Agriculture: A three-country effort to impose the Brazilian industrial production-export model on Mozambique, to the dismay of the small farmers
A New Lamb Co-Op: A Manitoba sheep farmer is working with a New Zealand company to build a vertically integrated lamb business on the Prairies