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Help Ban Cosmetic Pesticides in BC

I’ve been forwarded this by some concerned friends, please add your input via the site below. The following is written by Marisca Dekkema of Prince George, B.C

Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides

The Canadian Cancer Society is pleased the Provincial Government is taking steps towards banning cosmetic pesticides. The Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides, made up of MLAs, is planning on conducting province wide consultations to investigate and issue recommendations on the elimination of the unnecessary use of the chemicals. Spokesperson for the society, Kerensa Medhurst, says they have been working a long time to bring this issue to the attention of the government.

“The Canadian Cancer Society is very concerned about the cosmetic use of pesticides, which are substances used to control weeds, insects, animals or fungi,” says Medhurst, “they’ve been linked to negative health and environmental impacts and there’s a growing body of evidence linking pesticide exposure to both childhood and adults cancers.”

British Columbians can participate by completing an online questionnaire or by sending the committee a written submission or audio file. To access the questionnaire, or for more info here. The call for public input closes December 16th.

BC Completely Supports Prohibition of Raw Milk in Canada

BC Completely Supports Prohibition of Raw Milk in Canada

I don't have a copy of the letter we sent to the Minister of Health, so I am not sure if this letter addressed my issues or not, but it is just a standard sort of a letter that doesn't really give any consideration for the points brought up. Also, as you can see the reply keeps talking about raw mil ...

Join the Team

Join the Team

The Hella Delicious Food Culture is currently looking for a few versatile, dedicated interns to help spread the word about the importance of honoring traditional foodways. Internships with Hella Delicious are rewarding, educational, inclusive, healing and fun. Everything we work on aims to make t ...

Ox Mountain

Ox Mountain

The trees on Ox Mountain were once beautiful. However because the mountain is on the borders of a great state, they were cut down with axes and saws, so how could they retain their beauty? Yet they continued through the cycle of life and the feeding of the rain and dew to put forth buds and new ...

Deadly Monopolies – Corporate Control of Life Itself

Deadly Monopolies – Corporate Control of Life Itself

This is a must watch interview from Democracy Now. Harriet Washington discusses tissue trafficking, patents, universities and pharmaceutical corporations. Scary stuff, and this is only a tip of the iceberg. "Deadly Monopolies": Medical Ethicist Harriet Washington on How Firms are Taking Over ...

Rally for Food Freedom Nov 2nd

Rally for Food Freedom Nov 2nd

Please join us Nov 2nd with Michael Schmidt and this rally for food freedom and to get corporate agenda's out of our local food systems. Around the world the situation is getting increasingly insane. Michael Schmidt speaks in this interview about his personal history, growing up in Germany, studying ...

Homebaked Halloween

Homebaked Halloween

It's very cool what is happening down in the US with the “Raw Milk Freedom Riders–Milk and Cookies Rally” on Tuesday November 1st. Michael Schmidt will be there too. I hope he has a chance to come down to Village #Occupy when he is here in Vancouver for the contempt of court nonsense. But sinc ...

Oh McGuinty, Are You Stupid Enough to Make a Martyr of Canada’s Beloved Dairy Farmer?

Oh McGuinty, Are You Stupid Enough to Make a Martyr of Canada’s Beloved Dairy Farmer?

I've said over and over again that our leaders are literally insane because they are infested with parasitic microorganisms (similar to this parasitic fungi that brainwashes ants). Now we are seeing the true depths of their blind madness. They are so obsessed with controlling everything they can't s ...

Local // Global #Occupy Truffles

Local // Global #Occupy Truffles

I had a special request to write this recipe down right away so I don't forget it. It is indeed delicious, but I think it is more the care put into finding good ingredients than the precise measurements described in the recipe given below. I've recently been reading about the Sikhs and their culinar ...

How You Can Support Village #Occupy

How You Can Support Village #Occupy

I've been spending all the time I can lately down Village #Occupy Vancouver. It is so lovely to have a new-old village in the middle of the downtown! I have mostly been listening to people, I have heard complaints about the system from all kinds and I have heard complements about the movement from a ...