Sylvain Charlebois
Health Canada opens grocery stores to cloned animal foods. Is the nation ready?
According to Health Canada’s own consultation documents, Ottawa intends to remove foods derived from cloned animals from its “novel foods” ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate is agriculture’s scapegoat
Glyphosate has played a central role in modern agriculture’s ability to increase yields, reduce labour costs and conserve soil through ...
Viewpoint: Despite global risk agencies declaring glyphosate safe, tort lawyer attacks raise concerns about the future of the herbicide and its manufacturer, Bayer
In a quiet but seismic signal to the global agri-food industry, Bayer is warning it may halt the production of ...
Here’s why simplistically demonizing ultra-processed foods is shortsighted
The resurgence of rhetoric around the food industry “feeding us poison,” spurred by figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Precipice of a food security catastrophe’ — Re-shaping agriculture to fit the prejudices of urban perspectives could have dire global consequence
For many Canadians, crop production is an unknown concept. Because of this, it’s relatively easy to use fear to influence ...
Viewpoint: ‘We are paying for genetic engineering bashing by groups that have used fear to put forward organic-centric diet’, says Canadian agri-food professor
About 15 per cent of all calories on Earth come from wheat. Corn covers a lot of calorific ground as ...
Viewpoint: Why Canada should fast track gene editing — and avoid repeating mistakes made with GMO regulation
Health Canada is reportedly likely to treat gene-edited crops differently than genetically-modified crops, or GMOs. That would be the right ...
Viewpoint: ‘The debate on glyphosate in Canada is populist, chaotic, political and simply unsettling’
Canadians had until July 20 to comment on the federal government’s proposal to increase the amount of glyphosate herbicide residue ...
Agriculture industry risks PR disaster if it doesn’t educate the public about CRISPR
Gene-editing experts claim that the technology has the potential to make some foods more nutritious without increasing costs and can ...
Viewpoint: Mandatory gene-edited food labels would ease consumer fear of CRISPR
The food industry’s last venture into genetic engineering, more than 30 years ago, was a commercial success for agriculture ...
Viewpoint: Crop biotech industry’s ‘poor communication’ fueled explosion of Non-GMO Project labels
Today in North America, the Non-GMO Project Verified logo is on over 50,000 food products that bring in more than ...
Could the end of Monsanto signal a new beginning for GMOs and crop science?
Putting Monsanto out of its misery could mean future debate about genetically-modified crops will be based on facts rather than ...