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Rethinking Food and Agriculture amid the greatest recession

Posted on July 23, 2020 by Danielle Park

Further to yesterday’s article Non-animal food:  here to stay, and my July 2 article Rethinking Canada during the greatest recession, Tony Seba’s group ReThinx has published a worthwhile update on the technological disruption now transforming status quo thinking and systems … Continue reading →

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Non-animal food: here to stay

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Danielle Park

Growing animals to feed nearing 8 billion humans was not ecologically sustainable before the COVID-19 outbreak, now, the spreading realization that most epidemics cross to humans from animals is another factor accelerating appetite for alternative food sources. An explosion of … Continue reading →

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Household behavior shifts: positive longer term, negative for economy near term

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danielle Park

Half of the independent Canadian restaurants recently surveyed say that they are unlikely to survive the current crisis.  This is bad news for small business owners in the sector, as well as related lenders, employees, landlords, economic growth and tax … Continue reading →

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