- Ms Kaye is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Mary Carlisle is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Prem Gill is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Nancy Flight is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Justin Everett is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- John Westover is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Nora Etches is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Edward Henderson is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Bharadwaj Chandramouli is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Dean Chatterson is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Marius Scurtescu is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Robert Parkes is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- James Murton is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Susan Doyle is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Vincent Strgar is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Helen Spiegelman is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Subir Guin is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Kimball Finigan is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- Joanne Manley is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
- David Leach is a Tyee Builder. You can be, too.
President Bush on Food Security
Plus: the 'Deconstructing Dinner' Cross-Canada Trike Tour.
On May 1, 2008, President Bush addressed the latest global food crisis in a press conference from the White House. We'll listen in on this speech and the U.S. foreign policy definition of "food security." While global efforts to respond to the food crisis may indeed be providing much-needed aid, it is this very aid and its accompanying policies that is suggested will only further push this food crisis to even more damaging proportions. In the end, the food aid effort is the very same one that has persisted for decades, and let's face it, it hasn't worked.
Lending her voice to help critically examine Bush's speech will be Anuradha Mittal of the Oakland Institute.
Cross-Canada Trike Tour I
On May 7, 2008, Darrick Hahn and Sinisa Grgic departed Victoria from the zero-mile mark of the Trans-Canada Highway and embarked on a cross-Canada journey to raise awareness of Deconstructing Dinner. The pair will be travelling by recumbent tricycles (or trikes).
In the summer of 2007, Hahn stumbled across producer and host Jon Steinman, and it didn't take long for Hahn to become a fan of the show. "After listening to Deconstructing Dinner more and more, I felt compelled to spread the word about the show," says Hahn. "So as we cross the country, we will encourage everyone to listen to the show and learn more about the state of our food system."
Hahn and Grgic believe that many of our current health problems are directly or indirectly a result of an unsustainable food system that is built primarily on profit. The trip will be focused on raising awareness and not money. "You keep your money, and with more awareness, you can choose what to do with it," says Grgic. "We hope you use it to buy healthier food from local farms in your community, or support Deconstructing Dinner, a voice that is not yet well represented in the mainstream media today.
En route, the two cyclists will stop in at farms and markets and explore Canada's food and farming culture. "We hope to eat as locally as possible along the way, and wild plants are not off-limits," says Hahn!
Hahn and Grgic will be periodically updating a blog with photos and journal entries, and weekly updates through phone interviews will be airing on Deconstructing Dinner each week.
On this episode, we hear from correspondent Andrea Langlois interviewing the cyclists as they departed Victoria, and we listen in on segments of a phone interview between host Jon Steinman and cyclist Darrick Hahn. Hahn spoke to Jon from inside the cheese-making facility of Jerseyland Organics in Grand Forks, B.C.
Guests/voices
Darrick Hahn and Sinisa Grgic, cross-Canada cyclists, Deconstructing Dinner Cross-Canada Trike Tour (Monkton, Ont./London, Ont.) -- Cyclists Sinisa Grgic and Darrick Hahn are old high-school friends based in Southwestern Ontario and are the proprietors of Fresh Entertainment. Darrick grew up on a farm in Monkton, Ontario. Sinisa, who is originally from Croatia, moved to Canada 17 years ago.
Anuradha Mittal, executive director, Oakland Institute (Oakland, Calif.) -- Anuradha Mittal, a native of India, is an internationally renowned expert on trade, development, human rights and agriculture issues. After working as the co-director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy, Mittal established the Oakland Institute, a progressive policy think-tank, in 2004.
George W. Bush, president, United States of America (Washington, D.C.)
Duane Clarridge, ex-CIA (1955-1987) (U.S.A.)
John Pilger, journalist (London, U.K.) ![[Tyee]](http://thetyee.cachefly.net/ui/img/ico_fishie.png){kind=small}
- BC snuffs out AirCare test program
- AFN national chief Shawn Atleo to launch re-election bid
- Citizens group releases video to fight undead Bill C-30
- Conservative MP says he might vote against budget, then 'clarifies' his position
- Genetically modified plants won't take root with councillors in Richmond, BC
- Hundreds at Vancouver rally to support Quebec students
- Could Fort Mac become an eco-tourist hotspot?
- Rick Hansen's Man in Motion anniversary tour concludes in Vancouver
- The Gem of Canadian Science that Harper Killed
- Canada's Economy, Deconstructed (by a 12 year-old)
- Who Mowed Down the Premier?
- Bill C-38: the Environmental Destruction Act
- Death in Remand: a Tyee Inquiry
- Now Is the Time to Talk up Big Ideas
- 'A Gut Feeling'
- What's Behind BC's Doors?
- Sexism Tinges Criticism of Teachers' Job Action
- Bias in BC's Pesticide Decision? Follow the Bouncing Verbs
- The Gem of Canadian Science that Harper Killed
- Sexism Tinges Criticism of Teachers' Job Action
- Now Is the Time to Talk up Big Ideas
- Bill C-38: the Environmental Destruction Act
- The Ethics of Addiction Studies
- Alberta Fills Pipes with Corrosive Denial
- Gov't Moving to Keep Farm Disease Outbreaks Secret
- Does BC Stand for Ban Clotheslines?
- It's no yolk: Breakfast crew share $21.4M Lotto 6-49 jackpot in Ontario
- BC biotech company seeks approval for GM apple
- Does Simon Fraser University Need a Men's Centre?
- Should You Run from that Medical Test?
- 'The Dictator'
- Death in Remand: Stacked Deck
- 'Moonrise Kingdom'
- Does BC Stand for Ban Clotheslines?
- From Financial Advisor to Occupier
- Tyee Builders Tally: Amazing!
- 'Storage Wars'
- How Our Immune Systems Exaggerate Fear
- Double lung recipient dances on Ellen show
- ISS astronauts grab DragonX space capsule by the tail with Canada Arm
- Metro Vancouver gas prices peak at record levels
- Ottawa posts $9-billion deficit in March despite pledge to avoid spending spree
- BC phases out AirCare to focus on fighting bigger vehicle emissions
- Tsunami senors to be dropped into deep sea off of Vancouver Island
- Student groups file court challenge against Quebec protest law
- ...while on the streets, pirates and ninjas put aside mutual animosity to join student protests
2
Login or register to post comments
Fiat lux
4 years ago
Some of us have known all
Some of us have known all this, and have been talking and writing about it 40 and many more years ago.
Nevertheless, it is encouraging to see that at least some, and more and more people are finally waking up to the crime wave by the multinational corporate mafia, engulfing the Earth.
Meanwhile, I'm on a blog of sorts, called "food", but the only contents and information coming out of it is who and which of the gang is taking over what and whom, like "Tyson is looking for more acquisitions...." " Nestle is buying ....."
concentrating and controlling the world's food supplies into the hands of a few.
Calling it "competitive free enterprise" of course, with the same owners working under hundreds of different other and trade names, forcing farmers off their lands, while raising prices in the stores.
We have "rising prices", while the middlemen rulers are bankrupting Canadian farmers and ranchers.
The author Louis Bromfield warned about all this in his book "Pleasant Valley", 70 years ago. Worth reading by any thinking person.
Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.
Fish-counter
4 years ago
Food security
Great!
That is all we need!
First came the War(s) on drugs.
big bust, didn't work.
Next came the War on terror.
A trillion dollars later, the price of oil has doubled.
Now the War on (U.S.) Hunger.
food cost will triple, and there will be less of it.
Bush jr. really knows how to drive prices up