Resources / Links
These handouts have been developed for the Toronto consumer interested in learning more about organic and local food issues:
Organic certification - your guarantee
These handouts are about organic gardening:
Starting an organic vegetable garden
Protecting plants using other plants
Organic protection or the garden
Useful links:
Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario
CBAN (Canadian Biotechnology Action Network)
Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
A book by Carey Gillam, one of the speakers at COG Toronto’s 2017 conference
It’s in our food, our water, our air, soil and our own bodies. It’s the most widely used herbicide in all of human history, and while farmers and homeowners alike use it regularly, this pesticide carries an array of dangers the corporations that profit from it don’t want you to know about. Whitewash makes it clear that we have forgotten the lessons Rachel Carson taught us 55 years ago — trying to dominate nature with synthetic pesticides is a recipe for health and environmental destruction. Just as Carson's story-telling vehicle was DDT, Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide, known commonly by consumers as Roundup, is the focus now. Whitewash contains many revelations not only about how pervasive this and other pesticides are now in our food production system, but how hard corporate entities like Monsanto have worked to conceal the truth.
A press release with more information about the book, a bio of and Q & A with author Carey Gillam, is here.
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Increasing Agricultural Sustainability Through Organic Farming:
Outcomes from the 2016 Organic Confluences Summit
A current, well-referenced review on the benefits and challenges of organic farming practices.
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff
GMOs & Glyphosate: Real Threats to Human and Environmental Health
A talk given in Toronto, April 2016
Transcription of talk here PowerPoint slides here
Dr. Thierry Vrain
Engineered food and your health: the nutritional status of GMOs
Organic Council of Ontario
The Organic Council of Ontario produced the following series of videos:
What is Organic Farming:
Why I am an Organic Farmer:
Sharing the Harvest: A Retailer’s Perspective
