Edible Toronto
January 7, 2008
Launched in September 2007, Edible Toronto is a new quarterly print mag that promotes sustainable farming practices and the local foodshed with a focus on growers, producers, purveyors, food artisans, farmers’ markets, chefs and restaurateurs, food shops and cafes. Supported by Edible Communities, a group of locavore foodie mags worldwide, Edible Toronto showcases and promotes the local foodshed of the Golden Horseshoe, an area of 100 municipalities populated by more than half of Ontario’s residents.
Warning issued on Wild Vineyard health products
January 2, 2008
Health Canada is advising Canadians not to use unauthorized products manufactured by Wild Vineyard because of their potential health risks. Wild Vineyard is not authorized to manufacture, package, label or import natural health products in Canada. As such, the government is concerned about the quality of these products and the subsequent health risk they may pose to Canadians.
Ringing in a green new year
December 29, 2007
Throwing a party to ring in the new year on Monday night? No need to toss your green morals out the window. Use it as an opportunity to share good health and positive actions with your friends and guests.
Holiday treats
December 22, 2007
What’s Christmas without the food? Or more specifically, what’s Christmas without the sugary treats? Cozy up by the fire this year with an organic gravenstein apple cider and a slice of dairy-free fruitcake with the help of our favourite homemade festive recipes.
Have yourself an eco-friendly Christmas
December 19, 2007
The holidays bring out the best in many of us. But they also bring an environmentalist’s worst nightmare: excess in everything from energy consumption to packaging and food. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a few final tips for celebrating the season and the planet, too.
Are you a locavore?
December 18, 2007
If you’re conscious about filling your plate with locally grown foods, you can officially be called a locavore, the New Oxford American Dictionary’s 2007 word of the year. The locavore movement encourages consumers to buy locally grown ingredients and seasonal foodstuffs from farmers’ markets or pick or grow their own food, based on the argument that fresh, local produce is more nutritious and often tastes better. Locavores avoid supermarkets as an environmentally-friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances requires the use of fossil fuel for transportation.
Eat your green: the 100 Mile Diet
December 15, 2007
When Canadian families get together in the coming weeks for holiday meals, much of the food they share will have traveled at least 1500 miles. This reliance on long-distance food damages rural economies and, with the huge quantities of fuel consumed and emissions spewed in transportation, contributes to global warming. In spring 2005, Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon began a simple experiment: to buy and eat food and drink from within 100 miles of their Vancouver home. Within weeks of their announcement on their blog at The Tyee, word of their 100 Mile Diet had spread around the world.
Slow food
December 14, 2007
Where was that apple in your lunch bag grown? Many of us don’t often stop to think about where our food actually comes from. Enter the Slow Food movement: a non-profit, eco-gastronomic and member-supported organization founded in resistance to fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s diminishing awareness of what they eat, its origins, its taste and the effect our food choices have on the rest of the world.
U of T voted Canada’s most vegetarian-friendly university
December 12, 2007
More than 10 000 students have spoken, and the University of Toronto has been voted the most vegetarian-friendly university in Canada in an online competition sponsored by peta2 - the world’s largest youth animal rights organization. At a university with more than 63 000 undergraduates, it can be tough to meet the needs of the large vegetarian population on campus, but because of the efforts of the student group UTCARE (U.T. Coalition for Animal Rights and the Environment), the University of Toronto offers the best vegetarian and vegan options in Canada.
Product labeling
December 11, 2007
With the flood of products in the marketplace labeled as natural, organic, certified organic and made with organic ingredients, it’s hard to know a grain-fed turkey from a pesticide-free apple. Calling a product “organic” is a valuable marketing tool in today’s consumer market. However, many of us don’t stop to consider what it actually means.
