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Issues of Food in British Columbia & Canada

www.acs.ryerson.ca/~foodsec
Ryerson's Centre for Studies in Food Security site including sections on Food Security Toronto, About the Centre, News, Conferences, Toronto Food Research Network, Publications, and Resources. The sections on news and resources which contain a number of articles from a variety of sources may be most useful for students and teachers.

www.foodbank.bc.ca
Site of Foodbanks of BC contains information on ways to help, news, events, and BC Cost of Eating Report.

www.ffcf.bc.ca
Farm Folk/City Folk, a Vancouver association concerned with understanding food growth and production. Find out about their purposes, how to get involved, current issues, projects, and events. Most valuable is their extensive list of links to organizations concerned with genetic modified foods, organic agriculture, sustainable food systems, and food policy.

www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/arb/publications/research/abw-98-26e.shtml
This takes you to an essay "A Glimpse at Child Hunger in Canada" (1998) by Lynn McIntyre and colleagues.

www.rprogress.org/progsum/nip/ef/ef_main.html
Use this site to calculate your ecological footprint -- a measure of the way that human activity affects the environment and helps identify strategies to reduce our impact.

www.rsc.ca
The Royal Society of Canada has available their latest report of the panel on Food and Biotechnology.

http://worldwatch.org
Site for Worldwatch Institute contains information on sustainable eco-systems, resources, etc. Section on biotechnology is of interest and agriculture and aquaculture.

www.aeb.org/
Site of the American Egg Board (USA) contains sections on the industry, retail, food and nutrition, safety, and recipes.

www.albertapork.com
An excellent site for information on pork. Sections are aimed at home use, retailers, chefs, and producers, and include health and nutrition, butcher's block, chef's corner, producing pork, what's new, careers, events, marketing, research. Good visuals in many places especially of various meat cuts in butcher's block section and recipes in both metric and imperial measures in the chef's section and at home section are useful for instructional purposes.

www.bcfarmfresh.com
You can search for specific foods and find where they are grown and how you can purchase in BC. Also contains recipes.
- www.bcfarmfresh.com/charts.html
  This site of the Fraser Valley Farm Direct Marketing Association contains a map, product and farm index of food producers in the Fraser valley area. Availability charts and tips and recipes provided will be most useful for teachers.

www.bchothouse.com
This site of BCHotHouse contains a virtual tour and information on their products (tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce), section on nutrition with specific information on teen vegetarians, recipes, hot news.

www.bctree.com
An excellent site for BC teachers who want to promote BC products. Contains an excellent recipe section, fruit news, information on growing, buying, storing and eating BC fruits; a colouring book and clip art section.

http://cspinet.org
Centre for Science in the Public Interest Contains lots of current information on nutrition, food safety, biotechnology, genetically modified foods, etc.

www.cuisinecanada.ca
This is the site of Cuisine Canada with sections on post secondary programs, profiles of chefs in Canada, and member organizations.

www.eharvest.com
If you have lots of time for browsing or if you want to explore many aspects of agriculture and agri-business, check this page which is Canada's Agrifood Directory to other websites.

www.epicurious.com
Epicurious Food's Recipe File puts more than 8,000 recipes from Bon Appetit and Gourmet at your fingertips -- along with wine advice, restaurant and book reviews and practical kitchen tips. Everything from etiquette of food to kitchen equipment.

www.fromages.com
This page is perfect for the study of French cheeses. The Encyclopedia section contains information on sutting, storage and use of raw vs. pasteurized milk. The cheese library lists all the cheeses made in France (many, many) links each visually to a map of the country and includes descriptions of each. The recipe gallery contains many recipes for cooking with cheese. Links to other cheese sites.

www.greenpeace.org/~geneng/
Greenpeace website provides details of latest concerns and actions related to genetically modified foods.

www.ift.org
Institute of Food Technologists: Contains information and links about biotechnology, food processing, nutrition, etc.

www.legis.gov.bc.ca/cmt
The Select Standing Committee on Agriculture and Fisheries in BC.

www.nutritionstuff.org
Dairy Farmers of Canada offers an attractive, easy to navigate site with lots of information on cheese, dairy products, recipes, and nutrition.

www.produceoasis.com
This site is devoted to information on fruits and vegetables, including recipes and nutrition information.

www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/981021/d981021.htm#ART4
This is the Daily News section of the Statistics Canada website, containing current data of interest to teachers.

www.tasteofamerica.com
Basic information is given here on a variety of foods as the "ABC's of Salads" for example. A site for beginners. It also includes special foods such as pizza, listing ways the various forms it is available from buying frozen to making your own (recipe provided). Includes basic information an a huge recipe collection.

www.wgx.com/cheesenet
Source for wide range of information on cheese. It contains: world cheese index, cheese information, literature and links to other cheese sites. A good place to begin an investigation of cheese.

www.agf.gov.bc.ca/index.htm
The site of the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Food contains sections on the food industry (Buy BC and organic production), education (agriculture in the classroom, youth development, and 4-H) our agricultural resources (policies related to resource use), and crops and livestock (lots of factual information about production of livestock and crops in BC).

www.foodfirst.org
Food First is a member-supported, nonprofit peoples think tank and education-for-action centre. An information rich site including projects, international food rights, trade and agriculture, biotechnology, alternative food systems, resources, etc.

www.foodsystems.org
Food Systems Project uses a whole systems approach to the study of food to link Berkeley Unified School District students, their families, their community, and local family farms. Through their work in gardens, in preparing meals, and in the classroom, students gain an understanding of the way in which their own eating and food choices impact the environment.

www.netscape.org/hungerweb/FoodFirst
FoodFirst - The Institute for Food and Development Policy