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• 'Consumer Activism On Food Products:
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Refused to buy products that cost too much
IRefus'eato buy products from 'companies
whose policies they do not agree with
Refused to buy products where et i 1,
treat ent of annuals may be called
into question
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Refused to buy proditets:ecause of
• unrecyelable or 'unnecess'ary packaging
[Sought out products with recyclable ,
packaging
Joined a eonsu -ott. against , ...
particular pro( ° . stores
i Sought out products labelled as
"environmentally sound'
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. 'natural' or organic
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A descendant of the 'fungus
that , caused the Irish potato:
famine 150 -years ago showed
up in North America in 1993.
Last' year in New Brunswick
alone, 35 .percent of the potato
crop was lost at a cost'of $35
million. The best way to fight
such disease is to :start with
resistant crops, but that "can take
decades of work.'
• "Biotechnology will allow us
to do this "much more rapidly
and produce better crops' with
fewer chemicals," says Les
'Armstrong, secretary manager
of the Ontario Potato. Growers
Marketing Board. • (Source:
Agri -Food Network)
Environment
Can-ola oil is thoug'ht.to be
part of a healthy diet because it
is lower in saturated fats.
Canadians have -led the way in
,developing new -and -hardier".
-canolas...in :facto, panda -is now
Canada's biggest agricultural
earner, with 13.3 million acres
planted across the country,
Earlier chis, year, regulators -;at'
Health Canada concluded that
canolas genetically engineered
to withstand severalherbicides
were safe for Canadians to con-
sume. No*, one application of a t.2
herbicide 'can replace several
with these new products of
biotechnology.
That's 'good news for the,
environment and farmer's ,pock .
etbooks. (Source:. Agrii-.Food. , `hie creek,:hit) matter the Leeson, has a ma
it (Pat Llvingstoh photo =r "
Network).
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