Thought For Food 32.3

10 October, 2006
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Editorial: Homage to Milk and Honey

Dragon boat racers, soccer teams and choirs have it. The People’s Food Commission and its report, The Land of Milk and Money, had it too. Team members often display a go-for-it passion that is rooted in a powerful tradition: to believe in tomorrow, we must appreciate yesterday. To become a movement, the assorted collection of pilot food projects and food agencies must coalesce. Today’s food activists need the same camaraderie, solidarity and adrenalin as those dragon boat racers.

This edition of Alternatives Journal connects a new generation of food activists to a classic member of Canada’s food heritage. It honours the People’s Food Commission that, in the late 1970s, traveled across the country to hear the views of fellow citizens and then assembled the trend-setting report: The Land of Milk and Money. ...

Letter from New Brunswick - What a Mum Does - Article in Full
Kate Kerr
Memories of spruce budworm spray on the school yard.
Point - CounterPoint: The Carbon Tax Tango - Article in Full
Jack Mintz, Mark Jaccard
Brain Mulch: Kermit Wasn’t Trying - Article in Full
Joel A. Coppieters
A Montreal eco-skeptic turns green.
Editorial: Homage to Milk and Money
Susan Scott 

The Cupboard Is Bare
Darrin Qualman
Transnational interference grinds down world grain supplies.
What you should know about grain prices.

Harvesting Milk and Money 
Sally Miller
The time is ripe for a sequel to the People’s Food Commission.

Dirty Work  IWC
Research Group
There is little protection for migrant workers on Canadian industrial farms.

Dumpster Dining 
Ferne Edwards
Freegans consume waste food to protest consumer waste.

And Miles to Go Before I Eat …
Home-Grown Hurrah by Marc Xuereb
Local Limitations by Peter Andrée

Callaloo & You 
Charles Z. Levkoe
Food security is advancing community by community.

Local Flavour Saver 
Darcy Higgins
University of Toronto buys into home-grown model.
Certification Standards.
Multiple Benefits.

The Terminator
Fraser Los
The next extreme in GMO could undo 10,000 years of traditional agriculture.
Aly Togo’s Seeds

Pace Yourself 
Danny Bradbury
Cooking up slow food in a fast food nation.

Disparity in a Prosperous Land 
Kelly Skinner
Getting enough affordable, good quality food is difficult in remote Aboriginal communities.

Less Bad 
Nathan Ayer
Raising fish on land is not the eco-panacea some would have us believe.

More Alternatives

Letters to the Editor 

News & Notes

Science Desk 
Steve Stockton
CO2 pumps poison ivy.

Letter from New Brunswick
What a Mum Does 
Kate Kerr
Memories of spruce budworm spray on the school yard.
Audio version available online 

Point - CounterPoint
The Carbon Tax Tango: Economists Jack Mintz and Mark Jaccard dance to a different tune when it comes to the taxing of greenhouse gas emissions.

Reviews

The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan.Collapse, Jared Diamond and A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright.Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv.

Brain Mulch 
Joel A. Coppieters
A Montreal eco-skeptic turns green.

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