Category: Observer

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News has come out of the US that a Buffalo Wild Wings franchise restaurant in Chicago has been fingered for marketing white chicken meat nuggets as boneless chicken wings. Photo credit: Inspire Brands Inc.

I like Ontario Pork’s commitment to social responsibility, and the way it’s expressed in a new consumer-facing initiative – a magnificent cookbook called The Whole Hog.

Over the past decade, Ontario Pork and its 1,000-ish producer members have donated nearly 300,000 pounds of pork to Feed Ontario, the umbrella organization for Ontario food banks. That’s close to two million servings. Photo credit: Ontario Pork

Inflation is likely to keep consumers home this spring.

A new poll of 50,000 panelists conducted for the Ontario Produce Marketing Association says over the next three months, rising costs will force people to cut back on spending money at restaurants and bars. About half of the respondents said they’ll make fewer trips out. Photo Credit: David Malan/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images

If desperate times really do call for desperate measures, then we should all be keeping an eye on what’s being called a food crisis in North Korea. Photo credit: KCNA/Reuters

Governments are experimenting with assorted ways to help keep the people who elected them fed.

In many cases, that means financial assistance for food. This kind of help is vital, borne out by the historically high cost of food. Photo credit: lovefood.com

In a recent interview with the culinary publication Eater, American cultural icon Dolly Parton likened her love of traditional cooking to country music. Photo credit: Getty Images

I have a talented friend in Silicon Valley who toiled for years as a project manager at Netflix. A few months ago though, her role with the company ended, like tens of thousands of others in the hi-tech sector.

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As much as excessive corporate profits bug me, I appreciate efforts that grocery stores make to provide us with great food that we would not get at certain times of the year without a well-developed import-export network. Photo credit: freshplaza.com

People who value the image of old-time agriculture and traditional farm values will be pleased to know small- and medium-sized farms could be poised to make a comeback, at least in the US, with government help. Photo credit: BlakeBorchardtPhotography

The “Help Feed Africa Mantra”, that with good intentions, once dominated aid and development to the continent, shifted decades ago to “Help Africa Feed Africa.” Photo: ITTA, Ibadan, Nigeria

Staying healthy just keeps getting more important – ask anyone staring down a waiting line in a hospital emergency ward over the holidays.Illnesses that require hospitalization don’t always stem from poor nutrition, of course…. Image: Southeast AgNET

An advocacy group called the lllinois Farm Families has created a campaign called Year of the Farmer. It wants consumers to know that almost all farms are family owned. Same with Ontario. Corporations supply farms with products like fertilizer and seed. But the suggestion that faming is corporate controlled is a myth. Photo: Illinois Farm Families Program.

Canadian farmers depend on innovations to be as cost efficient as possible. But few of us could name a new farm technology, even though our food supply depends on them. Photo: Bayer.

President Biden’s “moonshot” announcement of 2016 – to reduce cancer deaths by 50 percent over the next 25 years – was reintroduced last Monday. The US Department of Agriculture will have a key role to play in the effort by ensuring the most nutritious foods are available in the school meal programs it oversees.