Bringing organic meat to the city
Farmers harness creative tactics to reach a growing market
Farmers harness creative tactics to reach a growing market
McGill’s cafeterias, contracted to Chartwells Food Services, have been long chastised for failing to carry foods that are vegan, kosher, or halaal, making it difficult… Read More »McGill’s cafs offer patchy support for kosher, halaal diets
Scientists, community groups frustrated with lack of government attention paid to health and environmental risks
Widespread environmental degredation accompanies growing industry
As of this month, McGill’s food service provider, Chartwells will offer a fully-sustainable seafood menu through its partnership with SeaChoice, a Canadian organization that helps… Read More »Sustainable seafood swims into Chartwells
Fed up with drawn-out negotiations, about 150 of McGill’s non-academic workers picketed outside the Roddick Gates Thursday, shouting, “solidarity” and “What do we want? A… Read More »Campus eye
Brooks, Alberta is a slaughterhouse town. The town’s largest employer, Lakeside Packers – a meat processing plant acquired by American multinational Tyson Foods in 2001… Read More »Immigrants drawn to rural meat-packing
You know that thing they tell us about “needing” to go to class? That spiel about how “actually being present” tends to make a difference?… Read More »Life lines: Running to class for a reason
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?” – 1 Corinthians 15:55 There was an article in The New York Times… Read More »Piñata diplomacy: Death is not a failure
The challenges of Montreal food banks
An examination of what we talk about when we talk about sex(y)
Arrivals, departures, and the transience of airport terminals
Provocative pet shop questions the relationship between man and meat
On Saturday, October 18, McGill hosted the remarkable environmentalist James Speth, Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, as guest… Read More »Hyde Park: Improving campus sustainability
In “Quebec dismisses fired TAs’ grievances” (News, Oct. 23), The Daily reported that some teaching assistants (TAs) were unionized in their secondary positions; in fact,… Read More »Errata