Toban Dyck
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Let’s approach the GMO conversation with ‘cooler heads’ in 2019
As consumers strive to become more aware of food-production terms and practices, they often bludgeon farmers with a body of ...
Viewpoint: Roundup is a ‘timid cousin’ of dangerous pesticides, and a blessing to agriculture
The public has found its witch to burn. Glyphosate — or, colloquially, Roundup — is shackled to the stake in ...
A farmer’s view on educating consumers about GMOs, pesticides and sustainable food
My family’s farm began in 1880s with a sod house and an intrepid couple—the Banmans—willing to brave the unforgiving Canadian ...
Why do farmers use GMOs and pesticides?
Chemicals changed the course of agriculture. They became available. Then they became affordable. And then they started to keep their ...
Viewpoint: Rampant anti-GMO beliefs make it more difficult to combat hunger and food insecurity
The negative rhetoric surrounding GMOs, big ag and non-organic food production is due for a reckoning. At some point, many ...
What will the GMO debate look like 20 years in the future?
When Monsanto created RoundUp, it plunked itself in the centre of a public throng that had never seen its likes ...