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Industrial meat in Canada, growth promoters and the struggle over international food standards
19 Mar 2025 | Essay | Contributor(s):
By Elizabeth Ann Smythe
This article focuses on differing national regulations and standards regarding how meat for human consumption is produced and what is permissible in that production process. Attempts to harmonize...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7737/?v=1
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GFT - Food security and international trade: Risk, trust and rules
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Sophia Murphy
The multilateral trade system today shapes the economy of almost every country of the world. The World Trade Organization (WTO) now has 160 members, and even the non-members must deal with the...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7645/?v=1
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GFT - Global food trade
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Clapp, Annette Desmarais, Matias Margulis
Few issues animate debate about the global food system as much as the role of international trade and, in particular, that of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Indeed, the WTO is a subject that...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7643/?v=1
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GFT - SYNTHESIS - The uneasy relationship between international trade and agriculture
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Kim Burnett
In his 2006 book, Food is Different, Peter Rosset posited we “get agriculture out of the [World Trade Organization] WTO”. This contention, which is the rallying cry for the Food Sovereignty...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7647/?v=1
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Supply management and the business activities of Ontario meat processors
19 Mar 2025 | Article | Contributor(s):
By Rita Hansen Sterne, Erna van Duren
Canadian supply management policies in dairy, poultry and eggs have been hotly debated for over 50 years. During the most recent renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in...
https://hsscommons.arcsoft.uvic.ca/en/publications/7531/?v=1
