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The Stakes In Steak: Examining Barriers To And Opportunities For Alternatives To Animal Products In Canada, Angela Lee Apr 2018

The Stakes In Steak: Examining Barriers To And Opportunities For Alternatives To Animal Products In Canada, Angela Lee

Dalhousie Law Journal

This Article considers some of the different food innovations being presented as potential solutions to the myriad problems associated with conventionalmodels of industrial agriculture. Specifically,in vitro meat (IVM) and plant-based alternatives to animal products-and their corresponding regulatory and market structuresare compared and contrasted. Examining the idiosyncrasies around Canada's approach to regulating these products reveals that the respective degrees of scrutiny may not be commensurate with the respective degrees of risk, due in part to the influence of powerful industry actors who wish to maintain the status quo. Given the significance and scope of the problems implicated by the industrial food …


The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie Sep 1975

The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie

Dalhousie Law Journal

The public has recently been made aware of special difficulties affecting farm labour. In August, 1973 the Report of a Federal Department of Agriculture team entitled "The Seasonal Farm Labour Situation in Southwestern Ontario" ' emphasized the deplorable living and working conditions, on some farms at least, of the seasonal labourers hired to harvest field crops in southwestern Ontario. Heavy media coverage erupted almost immediately, and there was renewed coverage in the autumn of 1974.2 Much less sensationally, through the spring and summer of 1974, the media gave coverage to special efforts by the government at both the Federal and …


The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie Sep 1975

The Agricultural Labourer In Canada: A Legal Point Of View, Kathryn Neilson, Innis Christie

Dalhousie Law Journal

The public has recently been made aware of special difficulties affecting farm labour. In August, 1973 the Report of a Federal Department of Agriculture team entitled "The Seasonal Farm Labour Situation in Southwestern Ontario" ' emphasized the deplorable living and working conditions, on some farms at least, of the seasonal labourers hired to harvest field crops in southwestern Ontario. Heavy media coverage erupted almost immediately, and there was renewed coverage in the autumn of 1974.2 Much less sensationally, through the spring and summer of 1974, the media gave coverage to special efforts by the government at both the Federal and …