Reaping What We Sow 25.1

27 January, 1999
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Editorial: The Planet is What We Eat

It's true, we are what we eat. But more so than ever, the planet is what we eat. While we used to depend on food that was locally produced and processed, we are now participants in a global system, as organized as any industry and using sophisticated new technologies. Our dietary choices now affect distant ecosystems and societies, and what dietary choices we have are largely shaped by a food production system with which we no longer have direct contact. ...

Editorial: The Planet is What We Eat
Ray Tomalty

Saving Seeds
Bob Wildfong
Farmers and gardeners are the best hope for protecting what remains of food plant diversity.
Inset: Genetic Capital Is Being Eroded in Genebanks by Brenda Inouye
Inset: Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Jy Chiperzak
Inset: Heritage Seed Contacts by Bob Wildfong

Bitter Fruit
Asoka Mendis and Caroline Van Bers
Attractive supermarket displays of tropical fruit conceal ugly environmental and social costs.

Urban Growth
Alternatives' poster-guide shows how to bring agriculture into the city.

Mad Cows and Bad Berries
David Waltner-Toews
Conventional approaches to solving agricultural problems can encourage old and new diseases.

Death Science Creeps onto the Farm
Brewster Kneen
Biotechnology surprises the unsuspecting farmer.

Community Agriculture Rises in Quebec
Elizabeth Hunter

...and Uruguay
Pablo Galeano

Food Powers Social Change in El Salvador
Gail Hochachka

Youth Garden Thrives in Vancouver Wasteland
Emmanuelle Tittley

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Notes

Planting Houses in the Rouge
Daphina Wai
Deal shows that housing and urban wilderness may be able to co-exist.

Improvements Not Clear-cut
Christine Cheng
Praise and skepticism greet Macmillan Bloedel's announcement of sweeping new changes to the way it harvests timber.

New Brunswick Gets the Ticket
Corry Toole
Polluters face fines under new legislation.

Quicksilver Albert
Erinn Moore
Evidence mounts that mercury contamination is endangering Nova Scotia loons.

Canadian Graduate Environmental Studies Programmes
ESAC and Alternatives present the first annual directory.

Reviews

The Video Activist Handbook by Thomas Harding
Écopolitique internationale by Philippe Le Prestre
At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada's Forests by Elizabeth May
Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation by Richard A. Rajala
Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Use by Alan Drengson and Duncan Taylor

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