Listeria Report Leads to $75M for Food Safety

Staff - MB Co-Operator -9/13/2009

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq on Friday pledged $75 million for investments in Canada's food safety system.
A woman works to sterilize meat processing and packaging equipment at the Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto in a file photo. Photograph by: Mark Blinch, Reuters

Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost in Suffering

By CHARLES DUHIGG - NY Times - Se. 12, 2009 Toxic Waters

Jennifer Hall-Massey's youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest...

Alberta's Tarsands Emissions Higher Than Some Countries

Mary Jo Laforest - Canadian Press. Se. 13 '09

Photo courtesy Nat'l. Geographic
Alberta's oilsands produce more greenhouse gas emissions than some European...

Obama Finally Clamping Down on a Despicable Mining Practice? l.p.

Sep 11, 2009 - By Timothy Gardner.
U.S. cracks down on mountaintop coal-mine permits.

Photo courtesy Vivian Stockman - Flyover courtesy SouthWings.org

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. environmental regulators said on Friday they will scrutinize 79 applications for mountaintop coal-mine permits...

Oil Majors Propping up Myanmar Regime: Rights Group

Published on Thursday, Se. 10, 2009 by Agence France Presse

BANGKOK - Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar's junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.

Monsanto Slithers Back Into the Upper Echelons of U.S. Power

By Linn Cohen-Cole - OpEdNews - March 8, 2009

Monsanto's Michael Taylor is BAACC..KK ..this time to control "Food Safety" from the White House..

Courtesy of Combat Monsanto

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Ed's. Note: Barak, what were you thinking? Outrageous! l.p.

No Trans Fat in Manitoba Schools: Minister

Winnipeg Free Press - By: Staff Writer - 9/09/2009

Students returning to classes across Manitoba today should not be able to buy any packaged foods or other food products containing artificial trans fat...