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Vancouver Island Diet and 100 Mile Diet
IN THE NEWS
How Secure is our Food Supply. Vancouver Sun, May 17, 2008
100 Miles for 100 Days- Abbotsford Mission Times April 22, 2008
Liberal Whip Randy Hawes Takes up 100 Mile Diet-Georgia Strait Apr. 16, 2008
Know Where Your food is coming From. Ottawa citizen April 9, 2008
BC Farmers Fed 100 Mile Diet. Lake Cowichan Gazette, March 25, 2008
The Local Grain Revolution text and podcasts explore the creation of a project launched by two conservation groups wishing to experiment with the creation of a local grain market in the middle of the mountains of British Columbia.
Duncan council rebuked for passing a motion in favour of free-range and free-run eggs.
100 Mile Menu Challenge, Brantford Ontario
Supporting our agricultural sector. the Community Supported Agriculture model (CSA). The Ottawa Daily Observer, Feb. 23/08
Food Plays a role in Climate Change. BClocalnews.com Feb. 18/08
Consumers will soon have food labels that tell them how close to home their groceries come from. Prince George Citizen. Monday, Feb. 18/08
New Victory Gardens Plant Seeds of Change. Newbury Port Wicked Local Feb 16/08
Slow Food Growing Fast. RedOrbit, Texas. Feb. 17/08
Fish Farms directly responsible for falling stocks of wild salmon and trout. Vancouver Sun, Feb. 13/08
Livin' La Vida Local in Reno Nevada First woman signed up for National Public Radio's "Locavore Nation"
Don Maroc's 100 Meter Diet from the Cowichan News Leader, Feb 5, 2008
The 100 Inch Diet from the San Francisco Chronicle Feb 2, 2008..ha ha, they beat you, Don, sorry!
Harmful Pesticides found in Everyday Food Products- Seattle Post Intelligencer Jan 30/08
I believe we have a social and moral obligation to start eating responsibly...Wall St. Journal, Jan. 28.08
Don't Eat your Greens. Last year was the year of eating locally. Even I, a confirmed hedonist, succumbed to the 100-Mile diet.....Globe and Mail Jan 26/08
Eat Right or Diet Trying. At a time when North American supermarkets have been colonized by products that bear only a passing resemblance to actual food ..... Globe and Mail Jan. 26/ 08
Far Away Food Production. Georgia Straight, Jan 24/08
Organic Labelling Needs Improvement-Nanaimo Bulletin, January 22/08
Policies eyed to protect small, urban farms. The review will address concerns expressed by the mayors of both Richmond and Saanich that their agricultural land zonings could be undermined by current policy. Jan 02/08
Local Food Movement Stunted by Government Regulations. NDP Agriculture Critic, Corky Evans is concerned that government policies are threatening the production and availability of local food. Dec. 20/07.
Knowing How Far Your Food Travels..Times Colonist. Dec. 09/07
Living on the 100 MIle Diet This might be more challenging than we think! Read the article by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon from The Tyee.
The Island Diet. "I'd love to see people be more conscious about eating whole foods -- that usually connects with local products," says Cowtan, who tries to cook from scratch. "But I do have a child and they seem to be really attracted to the packaged stuff" -- which dominates a lot of supermarket shelves. Sunday Dec. 9/07
Oxford Word Of The Year: Locavore. The "locavore" movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers' markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better.
Eating Local is Hard, Even in BC. May 2007, The Ecolibertarian
Vancouver Island Challenges BC to boycott Monsanto corn and GMO's- Cowichan Valley News Leader (Duncan, British Columbia), Aug 15, 2007
Eating Local Powell River Again, an article from The Tyee by Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon, our eating local gurus. Aug. 8, 2007
Issues of General Concern
Article Archive. As more articles come in, some articles are removed in the interest of not having a page that is 10 screens long. These articles are still of great interest and worth reading.
January 2008 Archive
Vancouver Island Diet, Island Diet, Victoria 100 mile diet, Nanaimo 100 mile diet, Duncan 100 mile diet, Vancouver Island 100 mile diet, Campbell River 100 mile diet.
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