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Photograph of a red fox alone in a metal cage.
Society

Why We Need to See Images of Animal Cruelty

November 23, 2020November 24, 2020 - by Jason McBride

New laws threaten to restrict access for animal rights activists, but witnessing is the first step to change

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Photograph of a young woman working on the family farm with a man in the background
Business / COVID-19

The Struggles of Sustainable Farming

July 23, 2020July 24, 2020 - by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer

If you’re paying $1 for lettuce, somebody’s being exploited. So is the environment

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A man in a checkered shirt stands inside a large, barn-shaped building surrounded by chickens. He is holding a chicken in his hands and leaning towards it.
Health

A Warning from the Chickens of the World

July 6, 2020July 8, 2020 - by David Waltner-Toews

How our reliance on mass-produced food increases the risk of pandemics

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Illustration of a dark haired woman, crouching to pet a rooster. Around her are two other chickens.
First Person / May 2020

We Turned Our Pet Chickens Into Dinner

April 17, 2020 - by Yasuko Thanh

First we bonded over our unusual pets. Then we bonded over butchering them

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Arts & Culture

The Decade in Food

December 25, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From Canada’s farming crisis to our love of Kraft Dinner, here are the ideas, people, and conversations that helped define Canada

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Photograph of a Woman Watering Plants Inside a Greenhouse
Society

Women Who Feed the World

May 3, 2018May 2, 2020 - by Trina Moyles

Farming is traditionally portrayed as a masculine pursuit. Nothing could be further from the truth

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Illustration by Joren Cull
Feature / October 2016

Canada’s Bull Semen Boom

September 22, 2016April 1, 2020 - by Tom Jokinen

We export more than $100 million worth of “white gold” per year—much of it from a handful of designer superstuds

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December 2005/January 2006 / Environment

Non-commercial Farmers are Facing Extinction

December 12, 2005July 1, 2020 - by Julie Traves

With the family farm suffering, some enterprising growers are counting on “agritourism” to bring in revenue

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