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Food Insider

Learn how climate change impacts Canada's food systems and how agriculture impacts global warming. From the food on your plate to innovations of the future, get your food news here.

227 Articles

Why some aren’t so sure farms are key to carbon offset plans

Canadian fields, orchards, and ranches might soon be growing a new crop: Carbon credits.
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 17th 2021

Canada wastes 35M tonnes of food a year. This man is turning some of it into apple flour

A dehydrator and a spice grinder are all Joe Roth needs to turn 400,000 pounds of leftover fruit, commonly sold as pig mash, into flour.
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 16th 2021

DFO decision to ban frozen spot prawns ‘real disservice’ to harvesters — and food security

Hundreds of B.C. spot prawn harvesters might soon be out of work thanks to a recent decision by Fisheries and Oceans Canada that makes selling spot prawns frozen at sea illegal.
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 15th 2021

Everything you need to know about Canada's new laws for GMOs and gene editing

New gene-edited plants and food products may soon be on the market in Canada without regulatory oversight due to proposed changes to Canada’s risk assessment for food and plants.
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 11th 2021

Your mac and cheese will be getting safer — if you can afford it

Lovers of macaroni and cheese will soon have the choice to avoid toxic chemicals in their favourite dish — but only if they can afford it.
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 9th 2021

Toyin Kayo-Ajayi’s quest to bring Nigerian produce to B.C.

Meet the founder and president of Kara-Kata Afrobeat Society, a Vancouver-based non-profit that connects people through music, art, culture and food.
Food Insider
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Culture
  • Food Insider
March 8th 2021

Agriculture education in schools gets $1.6M boost from the feds

On Monday, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced $1.6 million for Agriculture in the Classroom Canada, an organization that works with schools across the country to implement food and agriculture into curriculums.
Food Insider
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 4th 2021

Why Canadian farmers should harvest lessons from the North

Sonny Gray thinks the crop of farms popping up across Northern Canada might end up teaching the rest of us lessons vital to the future of the country’s food system.
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 3rd 2021

Why farmers markets are here to stay

Tabitha McLoughlin says it was interesting seeing farmers markets being used in such a utilitarian manner during the pandemic.
Food Insider
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Culture
  • Food Insider
March 2nd 2021

Why 42% of UBCO students are food insecure, and how they’re working to change that

The internal survey gathered data based on one question: "In the past 12 months, have you worried that food would run out before you got money to buy more?" 
Food Insider
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 1st 2021

Can corporations make chocolate more sustainable? This researcher is trying to find out

Sophia Carodenuto is looking for ways to make food more sustainable in an unusual place: The business practices used by the companies who control the world’s chocolate trade.
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
March 1st 2021

Restaurants look to better wine, drinks lists as B.C. opens up wholesale pricing

The wine list at Shira Blustein’s restaurant probably won’t be getting much cheaper, but thanks to recent changes to B.C.’s liquor laws, it will soon be more interesting.
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
February 26th 2021

How the Comox Valley overhauled its food security approach in 2020

Maurita Prato and her team, with help from other community members, organizations and funders, were able to start a "Good Food Box" program, which delivered free and healthy boxes to people’s homes at the beginning of the pandemic.
Food Insider
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Culture
  • Food Insider
February 24th 2021

Advisory council set to shape Canada’s food policy

The 23-member council will guide the federal government on food-related issues ranging from from farms to food insecurity and food waste.
Food Insider
By
  • Cloe Logan
  • News
  • Politics
  • Food Insider
February 24th 2021

B.C. ranchers push for more help in struggle to get their animals slaughtered

Julia Smith has a problem. Despite litters of fast-growing piglets and surging demand for her pork, she can’t find an abattoir that can slaughter them before December. Demand for local meat has surged during the pandemic, leaving the province’s abattoirs booked months in advance and many small-scale producers struggling.  
Food Insider
By
  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
  • Food Insider
February 22nd 2021

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