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As Evidence Points Away From Neonics As Driver, Pressure Builds To Rethink Ban

If bee health problems were critical in Canada, they would certainly have surfaced in the country’s 19 million acres of canola farms, which are mostly in the west. Beekeepers who forage their bees in the canola fields, where neonics are used far more heavily than on Ontario and Quebec farms, say their hives are generally thriving. Apart from a single, ambiguous case, there have been no reports of bee kills attributable to neonics in all of western Canada in recent years.

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Ottawa Sun;

Dan Smith was jailed Thursday for not having a Gatineau licence for a cat he says isn’t even his. […]
Who Smith does blame is an overzealous SPCA officer and a Gatineau bylaw, which requires cats to be licensed, but doesn’t make a distinction for a feral cat such as Winnie.

Odds are the bylaw is the work of an overzealous SPCA to begin with. If your SPCA has time to enforce cat licenses, your SPCA needs downsizing.

“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”

Genetic Literacy Project;

But let’s be clear here. Non-GMO farming is not the same thing as organic farming. Many farmers practice conventional farming while avoiding GMOs. While organic farmers use less synthetic pesticides than conventional farmers, non-GMO conventional farmers often use more chemicals, and more dangerous ones, than farmers using GM seeds.
How could that be? As Marc Brazeau noted at Food and Farm Discussion Lab, what Chipotle isn’t telling you is that its new “non GMO” menu is hardly a model of farming sustainability.

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