This week in addition to my regular Food For Thought documentary, I was interviewed by CBC Radio stations across the country about some of the latest news in Canada regarding labeling of food products. Here are some links you may find helpful:
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency on current labeling legislation.
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Health report titled Healthy Weights for Healthy Kids.
A CBC.ca report on the Committee recommendations.
Felicity Lawrence of the Guardian newspaper in the UK has done some excellent articles about the battle over labeling in Britain. Here’s the latest one. For more on this issue from Felicity Lawrence, you can find of list of articles here. One of my recent podcasts contains a piece on childhood obesity from my archives, if you’d like to listen to it, you’ll find it on this webpage, look for All You Can Eat Vol. 34.
I used a quote from Michael Pollan during some of the interviews. This professor of journalism and food writer says, "Don’t eat anything your grandmother wouldn’t recognize!" I highly recommend his book called, ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’.
I’d love to hear your comments about labeling. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to enter your thoughts. How should foods in Canada be labeled?
