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This farmers market, run by J. Kings Food Service Professional, is linking the public with local produce

This farmers market, run by J. Kings Food Service Professional, is linking the public with local produc.

www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner/072408.htm The Livestock Lost series examines the farming and business of meat, dairy and egg production. It will explore the known and unknown dangers of meat production and what people can do to source alternatives to what many would refer to as a cultural staple of the North American diet. Part II - Local Meat? Not in My Backyard? On Part II, we continue where Part I left off and begin taking a much more on-the-ground look at how one community has begun responding to these regulation changes and to the increasing demand for safer and more responsibly produced local food. As many areas throughout BC scramble to meet the new slaughterhouse regulations, an important and critical lesson is being learned of what happens when communities begin to take a more serious approach to localize their food system. Situated in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia is the narrow Slocan Valley; home to many small-scale farmers raising livestock. The region is one of many in the Province that is now without a licensed slaughterhouse. Any sale of local meat in the area is now deemed as criminal according to regulations put in place in October 2007. As a response, a co-operative abattoir (slaughterhouse) group was formed to ensure that meat can continue to legally be processed in the region. Three proposed locations later, the group continues to run up against opposition from meat eaters and vegetarians alike. Guests/Voices Kenyon McGee, Spokesperson, Slocan Valley Abattoir Co-operative (Winlaw, BC) - Kenyon is a lawyer with Kenyon McGee Law Corporation and has been involved with the abattoir co-operative since it was first formed in 2007. He has lived in the area for 30 years and has had experience raising and butchering livestock. Corky Evans, MLA Nelson-Creston / NDP Opposition Critic for Agriculture and Lands, New Democratic Party of British Columbia (Winlaw, BC) - Corky Evans was elected as the MLA for Nelson Creston in 1991, and was re-elected in 1996. He was once again elected to represent his constituents on May 17, 2005. Corky has ten years experience as an MLA, during which time he served in many cabinet portfolios, including Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. He now serves as Opposition Critic for Agriculture and Lands. Abra Brynne, MIES Help Desk, British Columbia Food Processors Association (BCFPA) (Nelson, BC) - Abra has been hired part-time to work with the BCFPA's Meat Industry Enhancement Strategy (MIES). Her role is to work with producers in the southern part of the Province and assist them in the transition to the new inspection regulations put in place in October 2007.

Robert L. Thompson, Ph.D., Gardner Endowed Chair in Agricultural Policy, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois

In this week's Missouri Beef Industry Council report, a cattle producer from northwest Missouri answers some questions about his views on the beef checkoff as part of a series to be used on the national level.

This is the Hondo Group's capability presentation for 2008. Author: HondoGrp Keywords: motion graphics marketing agriculture innovation hondo group new media fort worth darlington portfolio Added: July 22, 2008

This is the Hondo Group's capability presentation for 2008. Author: HondoGrp Keywords: motion graphics marketing agriculture innovation hondo group new media fort worth darlington portfolio Added: July 22, 2008

Microbes rule, Bronze Men, The End of the World, World Robot Domination, Fishing Ban Works, Antarctic rocks, Bonding, Volcanoes Kill, and much, much more.

SwineCast 0323 Show Notes:Californian s for SAFE food lobby against gestation crate legislationAnimal welfare debate has many stakeholdersTransportation biosecurity conversation with Newsham Genetics Dr David Baum. Shared responsibility and isolation key to successLooking at the new Livestock Title in 2008 Farm Bill. What impact on producers?

NYTimes.com - Egypt is relying on an ambitious agricultural project in the Sahara Desert to reinvigorate national food production. Author: thenewyorktimes Keywords: NYTimes.com NYT The New York Times News Business Farming the Desert Egypt Sahara Food Agriculture Added: July 21, 2008

In this week's program Chuck interviews Rob Cook, CattleNetwork.com, about the company being purchased by Vance Publishing.

www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner/071708.htm The Packaged Foods Exposed series takes a look at the largest food manufacturers in the world. What products fall under their banners; how has their influence shaped economic policy, society and culture; how have they affected the environments they operate in; and what relationships do they foster within the countries they are located? This series places corporations in a critical light, hoping to provide a more balanced image to the advertising and PR campaigns launched by some of the most influential food corporations on the planet. In this fourth episode of the Packaged Foods Exposed series, we take a look at one of the largest consumer products companies in the world - Unilever. With such a significant influence on agriculture, food and health here in Canada and abroad, this focus on the company will be spread out over a two-part series. Part II On Part II of the Unilever series we explore the historical and current health impacts of margarine and how Unilever has responded to such health concerns. Unilever has a long history of impacting life in the oceans. Most recently, they have been accused of having a significant contribution on the depletion of cod stocks in the Baltic Sea - stocks that are on the brink of collapse. Unilever also controls roughly 25% of the Canadian ice cream market. This broadcast will look into some similar tactics the company has used in the world of margarine that are quietly being applied to many of the company's ice cream products. The question is raised - are Unilever's ice creams really ice cream? We will learn of a misleading web site the company maintains that seemingly violates Canadian laws, and we will learn of a controversial ingredient entering into Unilever's ice cream products around the world, an ingredient that replicates the DNA found in a fish, and one that is created through genetic modification! Guests Oliver Knowles - Oceans Campaigner, Greenpeace (London, UK) - The over-exploitation and mismanagement of fisheries has already led to some spectacular fisheries collapses. The cod fishery off Newfoundland, Canada collapsed in 1992, leading to the loss of some 40,000 jobs in the industry. The cod stocks in the North Sea and Baltic Sea are now heading the same way and are close to complete collapse. Greenpeace has been at the forefront of addressing this serious concern. Geoff Ross-Smith - Owner, Kootenay Kreamery (Nelson, BC) - Geoff began selling Unilever's Breyers ice cream at a stand in Ainsworth, BC until the quality of the product declined rapidly. Geoff chose to then launch a small independent ice cream company - now selling his products to 10 stores in the area. Therese Beaulieu - Assistant Director, Communication and Policy, Dairy Farmers of Canada (Ottawa, ON) - A national policy, lobbying and promotional organization representing Canadaïs 16,000 dairy farms. DFC strives to create favourable conditions for the Canadian dairy industry, today and in the future. It works to maintain policies that foster the viability of Canadian dairy producers and promote dairy products and their health benefits. Joe Cummins - Professor Emeritus of Genetics, University of Western Ontario (London, ON) - Joe is one of the earliest critics of genetic engineering. He obtained BS Horticulture, Washington State University 1955 and PhD Cellular Biology, University of Wisconsin 1962. Taught genetics at Rutgers and the University of Washington, Seattle before joining the University of Western Ontario in 1972. Joe sits on the board of the UK-based Independent Science Panel and is involved with The Institute of Science in Society.

A new episode! In it we cook a garden inspired Cold Chicken & Pea Noodle Salad. I also go off on a rant about the current, tragic compost poisoning issue in the UK. Sorry about the pause in shows. It has been crazy here with haying, summer work, trying to earn a crust, and some exciting projects Iâve been working on. Thanks for hanging in there! You can listen to, or download the show here: Or consider subscribing to the podcast for free. Links for this weekâs episode: The Gastrocast BlogGastrocast Forum The Kitchen Garden NetworkOur Service Provider: 1&1 Internet HostingR-Calf USAFacebook ProfileNews: Compost Ruined By Toxic Chemical Updated Response to IssueAbout AminopyralidAnother, Recent ViewPetition to Ban Aminopyralid Use in UK Technorati Tags: aminopyralid, food, cooking, peas, thai noodles, cold chicken salad, farming, agriculture, politics of what we eat, gardens, gardening, growing food, cooking school, culinary podcast, cooking show, gastrocast, podchef

This is a snapshot of a small and very poor African country as its inhabitants confront the double whammy of globalization and the advent of the information age. Based on a lecture by Martin Lucas, this video lays out some of the contending forces at work as an agricultural society tries to find its way between the dictates of the West, the possibilities opened up by new technology, and the realities of everyday life in a Sub-Saharan nation where forty-three years of independence seem to have led to worsening social and economic conditions and a new kind of dependent status. >

Author: Ptite_Mule Tags: gestion informatique ordinateur électronique traite vaches robot lait éleveur agriculture doubs Posted: 18 July 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

SwineCast 0322 Show Notes:Special review of two new provisions of the Farm Bill... ACRE and SURE programs 

SwineCast 0321 Show Notes:Livestock movement concerns the focus of the National Pork Boards Transportation Biosecurity SummitCatching up with Informa Economics Jim Wiesemeyer for a look at the Washington sceneryAgCareer s HR Roundtable scheduled for Aug 4-6 this year 

Missouri beef producers are well represented at the committee meetings of the Cattlemen's Beef Board taking place in Denver, CO. MBIC Executive Director, John Kleiboeker, talks about the main topics being focused on in the meetings at the conference. One of the main issues is the start of a process to analyze the Checkoff for the formulation of recommendations to make improvements.

L’insecticide Cruiser, tueur d'abeilles et de biodiversité . Le Cruiser, fabriqué par la firme suisse Syngenta, est un insecticide d'enrobage des semences de maïs dont la molécule active, le thiamétoxam, appartient à la famille des neurotoxiques. Les apiculteurs, qui le rapprochent de deux autres insecticides, le Gaucho et le Regent, incriminés dans la mortalité anormale des abeilles avant d'être interdits, signalent que des milliers de ruches ont péri en 2007 en Italie, où le Cruiser était utilisé. C'est un insecticide systémique, qui diffuse dans toute la plante via la sève. Il reste actif longtemps dans le sol, l'eau, et au bout du compte, on va retrouver sa trace dans toute la chaîne alimentaire , a expliqué François Veillerette, du Mouvement pour les droits et le respect des générations futures (MDRGF). Author: AtoumX2 Tags: non l'insecticide cruiser ogm nature humain terre agriculture pesticide Posted: 16 July 2008 Rating: 5.0 Votes: 1

This week you can hear several of Cindy's interviews from the Southern Peanut Growers Conference taking place in Panama City, FL.

Brussels, 2 July 2008. Ambassador Brave Ndisale, Malawi, chaired the second Panel of the Brussels Briefing on 'New drivers, new players in ACP rural development'. After the session, we briefly asked her to share with us some of the lessons learned during the day and the main points emerging from the discussion. For Ms. Ndsiale, the briefing was very useful to provide clarity on policies and practices of new actors in development, especially China. She also underlines that Africa has a lot to learn from the experience of China and India. Further, she reminds us how coordination among donors can be fostered when the ownership of development processes stays at nationale level: her country represents a success story in this sense. More: http://brusselsbriefings.net/

Brussels, 2 june 2008. Mr. Joseph Coompson, Chief Agricultural Economist at the African Development Bank informed participants in the Brussels briefing of 2 July 2008 that the AfDB has been mandated to coordinate a task force working on the issue of division of labour among donors in the agricultural sector. At a recent meeting, the different stakeholders agreed on a matrix prepared by the AfDB, that will now be finalised and shared among partners. This matrix will provide broad indications of the different areas where various institutions are working, and serve as a basis for enhanced cooperation between 'old' and 'new' development actors.More: http://brusselsbriefings.net/

Brussels, le 2 juillet 2008. Amadou Allahouri Diallo, NEPAD, a pris la parole lors du Briefing Nouveaux moteurs, nouveaux acteurs dans le d veloppement rural ACP pour pr senter le programme CAADP visant le renforcement de la qualit de l'aide et de l'efficacit dans l'agriculture africaine. Ses principes de base sont, parmi d'autres : le dialogue, la reddition de comptes, le partenariat et l'appropriation. Il est essentiel que tous les bailleurs de fonds reconnaissent la valeur du CAADP en tant que cadre d'harmonisation de leur action et de contribution la r volution verte de l'Afrique.Plus: http://brusselsbriefings.net/

Brussels, 2 July 2008. Speaking in the third panel of the Brussels Briefing on 'New actors, new players in ACP rural development' Motafumi Kohara, Director General, Rural Development Department, JICA, presented the experience of Japan in providing development assistance in agriculture and rural development. Building on its expereince in supporting Asian countries, JICA is increasing its support to African agriculture and it strives to foster South-South cooperation between Asia and Africa.More: http://brusselsbriefings.net/

Brussels, 2 July 2008. Christoph Lagenkamp from the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development presented roleand objectives of his organisation during the Brussels Briefing on 'New actors, new players in ACP rural development'. The platform's objective is to provide more and better resources in agriculture and rural development, where a lot still has to be achieved. In this regards, the current food crisis can also be seen as an opportunities which need to be seized. In particular, the Platform is very active in putting agriculture on the agenda of the Accra forum on aid effectiveness.More: http://brusselsbriefings.net/

As summer finally deigns to show its face, the time comes around once more for some Dang In Dub action. Following on from installments one and two, we now have volumes three and four headed your way for the sunshine of 2008. For volume three though, it is Wrongtom stepping up to the mix with [...]

www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner.071008.htm Co-operatives: Alternatives to Industrial Food IV (Community Farms Program) It's been a topic of discussion throughtout many broadcasts of Deconstructing Dinner: While there is clearly a widespread interest in supporting more localized food systems, the bigger picture of how such systems can be physically, economically and politically sustained is a far more complicated and serious matter. So long as our food and farming continues to be built upon the same market-based systems of economics that govern all else, the preservation and access to farmland in close proximity to urban centres will only become increasingly harder to maintain. In most parts of the country agricultural land has become next to worthless for the production of food and we now watch cities sprawl into the fertile soil. So what's the solution? One solution is a project currently being expanded upon by The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) and Vancouver-based FarmFolk/CityFolk. The program is called The Community Farms Program; first mentioned on Deconstructing Dinner on April 19, 2007. While specific to British Columbia, ths is a model that could be applied anywhere in North America. 'Community farms' represent a more holistic model of food production than the more conventional approaches. They produce additional outputs to food and fibre, such as: ecological services, bioenergy, landscape preservation, employment, cultural heritage, food quality and safety, and animal welfare. A farm that becomes a part of the Community Farms Program is collectively owned in public trust, long-term leases are assigned for local food production, and farmers are housed on the land. Agricultural activities are small-scale and intensive, and are carried out by a group of people working collaboratively or cooperatively. This segment uses recordings compiled by Deconstructing Dinner at the 2008 conference of the Certified Organic Associations of BC (COABC) held in Saanich. Cross-Canada Trike Tour III On May 7, 2008, Darrick Hahn and Sinisa Grgic departed Victoria from the 0-Mile mark of the Trans-Canada Highway and embarked on a cross-Canada journey to raise awareness of Deconstructing Dinner. The pair are travelling by recumbent tricycles (or trikes). This third installment of the Cross-Canada Trike tour begins at the Manitoba border and takes us through their time in Ontario. Guests/Voices Ramona Scott - Manager, Agricultural Programs The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) (Victoria, BC) - In 2006, Ramona established two farm co-ops. The land was purchased and co-operatively managed by their respective communities. These operations are the first of its kind in Canada and provide models for future projects. Heather Pritchard - Executive Director FarmFolk/CityFolk (Vancouver, BC) - Heather has over 40 years experience assisting non-profits, co-operatives and small businesses with financial planning, organizational development and personnel management. She is a member of Glorious Organics Cooperative, a certified organic farm business operating from Fraser Common Farm Cooperative in the Fraser Valley. Darrick Hahn and Sinisa Grgic - Cross-Canada Cyclists Deconstructing Dinner Cross-Canada Trike Tour (Monkton, ON / London, ON) - Cyclists Sinisa Grgic and Darrick Hahn are old high-school friends based in Southwestern Ontario and are the proprietors of Fresh Entertainment. Darrick grew up on a farm in Monkton, Ontario and Sinisa, who is originally from Croatia, moved to Canada 17 years ago.