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Supporters needed for lobbying Health Canada
Letters are needed from across the industry to support the CHFA’s efforts. Note that this is a small business issue and not a THC issue. We need to establish what percentage of business will be lost through the continued enforcement of section 3. (1) and to have a reasonable dollar estimate of what kind of market is being lost for the future.
Talk, smile, exfoliate, shop with morals
The beauty industry, said Ms Roddick, reflecting on 24 years in the business, was largely shallow, run mostly by men “and so uncomplimentary to women.” Its three major messages were shut up, get a face-lift and diet, she said. “When they control a woman’s body, they control her mind.”
The Last Farm Crisis: The New Politics of Food
The contemporary triumph of free-market capitalism has revealed to farmers, if not to other Americans, the bitter last act in this drama. Farmers can see themselves being reduced from their mythological status as independent producers to a subservient and vulnerable role as sharecroppers or franchisees. The control of food production, both livestock and crops, is being consolidated not by the government but by a handful of giant corporations.
The Reliable Source
House Republican staffer Eric Bergren was doing his job yesterday morning, trying to obtain information about proposed federal regulations regarding “hemp-based” products for a constituent of his boss, Rep. Ron Lewis of Kentucky.
Tofu Tsar
Our own local tofu tsar, Richard Rose, is a guy we can thank for popularizing tofu, somehow making the bland pallid gunk suitable (hey, even desirable) for the American palate.
Tribe gets hemp gift
The scene at the state Capitol was a bit strange even by Frankfort standards. Former Gov. Louie Nunn, a republican, stood at a lectern yesterday with four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, who’d spent the previous 24 hours driving to Kentucky from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Turning over new leaf
Ostriches or chardonnay? Raspberries or hemp? Agricultural researchers are scrambling for alternatives to the dying tobacco industry that has sustained Southern Maryland farms since Colonial times.
UK Government: Farmers get 2001 update to the Arable Area Payments Scheme explan
An Update for farmers who make applications under the Arable Area Payments Scheme (AAPS) has been sent to all arable farmers in England. This is to be read in conjunction with the Explanatory Guide 2000 issued in November 1999 which must be retained until a complete new Guide is published in Autumn 2001.
Waste not with ReVamp
Local designers featured in the ReVamp fashion show, in support of the Recycling Council of Ontario, were asked to create outfits made entirely from waste materials for the year-end festivities.