Re: [GreenYes] How about some good news? GIANT CANADIAN FOOD CHAIN REJECTS CHEMICAL PESTICIDES

[Helen Spiegelman <hspie@telus.net>]

By curious coincidence, today's mail brings my copy of Greenpeace
Magazine, also out of Toronto, which features a photo essay titled:
Loblaw's refuses to label GE food:

Like most large grocery chains in Canada, Loblaws refuses to label
genetically engineered (GE) foods. In addition Loblaws has blacked out
'GE-free' labels on organic foods...

H. 

At 06:11 PM 03/13/2002 -0600, Stephan Pollard wrote:
> http://ens-news.com/ens/mar2002/2002L-03-12-01.html
>
> TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, March 12, 2002 (ENS) - Canada's largest
> food
> distributor has made a public commitment to stop marketing chemical
> pesticides by next spring. Loblaw Companies Limited announced today
> that
> it
> will no longer sell chemical pesticides in all of its 440 garden
> centers
>
> across Canada by 2003.
>
> Stephan Pollard
> Environmental Dynamics Ph.D. Program
> Research Specialist, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies
> University of Arkansas
> Ozark Hall, Rm 12
> Fayetteville, AR 72701
> Tel: (479) 575-3981
> Fax: (479) 575-5218
> http://www.cast.uark.edu/~sp/
>
>
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