"Heritage Foods: Preserving Diversity I" (encore)
Deconstructing Dinner
Produced and recorded in the studios of Kootenay Co-op Radio in Nelson, British Columbia, Deconstructing Dinner has been designed to dispense and discuss current food issues. The program assists listeners in making more educated choices when purchasing food either for the kitchen or at restaurants.
www.cjly.net/deconstructingdinner/090408.htm The diversity in the varieties of crops being grown in Canada has dwindled significantly. Virtually
all of the fruits, vegetables, grains, livestock and pretty much every ingredient found on grocery store
shelves, is of a variety that has purely been bred for profit. At no time has the importance of maintaining
diversity or flavour ever been a concern for the powerful industrial food system that has taken hold of the
North American diet.
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