Safe Food and Sustainable Agriculture

As food is a major contributor to human health, agriculture can be a major threat to our environment. In 1999, in response to this threat, Sierra Club Canada launched its "Safe Food and Sustainable Agriculture" program. It addresses many food issues that we struggle with in our daily lives such as intensive livestock operations, genetically modified foods, shrimp and fish aquaculture and the presence of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics in our food.

The Safe Food and Sustainable Agriculture program works to educate rural and urban people alike about the environmental impacts of agriculture. Through the Green Budget Coalition, Sierra Club Canada lobbies the federal government on the federal agricultural policy framework and taxation as related to food and agriculture. Sierra Club Canada also encourages the preservation of publicly funded agricultural research and increasing the number of urban gardens.

On the grassroots level the Health and Environment...
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Campaigns

Food Irradiation
Food Miles
Intensive Livestock Operations
Mussel / Shrimp / Salmon Aquaculture
Flawed Fur Farm Bill too Hasty, Leaves Watersheds Open to Pollution
17 Jul, 2010   |   Yarmouth and Halifax, NS -  A network of environmental and community organizations are objecting to the hasty adoption of a flawed Fur Industry Act for Nova Scotia. Bill 53 was introduced for First Reading on Thursday April 29th and was passed by the House of Assembly on its Third Reading on Thursday May 6th. Although the Department of Agriculture worked closely with the Nova Scotia Mink...
Free Trade with Europe (Toronto Star Editorial )
7 May, 2010   |   “Such proposals are all hugely controversial — or they would be if anyone were paying attention. The problem is that the Canada/EU negotiations are taking place below the Canadian radar screen. Helena Guergis and Rahim Jaffer are getting more ink and air time here than free trade with Europe. In Parliament this week, just one question was asked about the negotiations. In principle,...
“Global Europe” Policy Backgrounder to CETA
19 Apr, 2010   |   By Janet Eaton, for the Trade Justice network, April 2010 1.      What is the Global Europe Strategy and how does it relate to CETA? Global Europe, launched in 2006 , was  a new doctrine for the EU’s external economic policies centred around the imperative for competitiveness and a trade...
Can-EU FTA (CETA) Impacts Environment, Ecosystems and Climate Change
19 Apr, 2010   |   Trade & Environment Fact Sheet By Janet Eaton, Sierra Club Canada for the Trade Justice Network, April 19, 2010 (http://www.tradejustice.ca) The Canada-E.U. Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations are based on commitments to place corporate profit and power before social and economic justice, democratic control, and ecological sustainability. Negotiations...
New Trade Justice Network to Release Controversial Details of Canada- Europe Free Trade Talks
17 Apr, 2010   |   http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/New-Trade-Justice-Network-Release-Controversial-Details-Canada-Europe-Free-Trade-Talks-1149021.htmApr 16, 2010 10:41 ETOTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 16, 2010) - On the occasion of the third round of Canada-European Union free trade negotiations in Ottawa (April 19 to 23), representatives of the newly formed Trade Justice Network, a cross-section of...
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