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Taylor said when she started fishing, she had to constantly prove herself in the male-dominated industry — on top of taking on tasks to keep the boat running. Things are easier now, but at a larger scale, problems remain.
Every summer, thousands of migrant farm workers flock to B.C. bearing painkillers and antibiotics. These personal pharmacies reflect workers’ concerns they won’t have access to adequate health care in the province, despite working in one of B.C.’s most dangerous — and essential — industries.
Broccoli sex is controversial. Especially organic broccoli sex. That’s because new gene editing technologies developed in the last 10 years have forced organic plant breeders, certification bodies, and farmers to re-examine techniques commonly used to breed the Lorax-like plants.
With fewer workers available and outbreaks shutting the province’s farms and processing plants, heaps of blueberry compost will remain as testaments to COVID-19.
Licences and quotas — the regulatory "keys" to fish harvesters' livelihoods — are managed through a system that has allowed corporations, as well as Canadian and foreign investors, to purchase the access rights to the province’s fish, which are worth tens of thousands of dollars.
COVID-19 laid bare cracks in our agricultural system. Cracks that run deeper than disrupted supply chains and empty shelves. Cracks that tie together sky-high farm debt, land speculation, and Canada’s reliance on migrant agricultural workers.
Fifteen years ago, Brooks White had no bison, and his farm was struggling with floods and threadbare soil. Hoping to improve the situation, the fifth-generation Manitoba farmer took a chance, putting bison on his land to fertilize the soil and planting cover crops in flood-prone fields to feed them.
