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Food Focus — 91 episodes

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1

When Groceries Get Expensive: Separating Fact from Frustration with David Ortega

2

Genetics Can Help Create a Lower-Emission Dairy Cow - Dr Christine Baes

3

Are Government Grocery Stores the Solution for Food Affordability?

4

An Inflation Primer: How High and Why

5

Is Micro-Algae the Future of Alternative Protein?

6

Is Your Grandmother's Recipe Ready for Prime Time? Bringing New Food Products to Market

7

Milk from Farm to Family

8

Building a Farm Based Food Business - Challenges and Successes

9

A Look Back to Better Understand the Future of Animal Agriculture

10

The COOP Model In Agriculture - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

11

Reflecting on a Career in Dairy Processing

12

Do Animals Feel? A Discussion on Animal Sentience

13

From Farm to Food Service: A Unique Perspective on the Restaurant Business

14

Changing What we Teach to Prepare Students to Contribute to a Changing Food System

15

How is Your Food Literacy - with complete audio track

16

How is Your Food Literacy?

17

Do We Have an Environment for Women to Prosper In Agriculture?

18

Not Your Grandmother's Garden

19

Chasing Unicorns: A Discussion with the Rare Young Farmer

20

The War in Ukraine is Being Felt Across the Food System

21

Conflicting Incentives? An Economist's Perspective on GHG Emissions Reductions in Crop Production

22

Reducing GHG Emissions from Crop Production

23

High Heels and Canola Fields: Bridging the Gap from Farmers to the Public

24

Harvesting Hemp's Huge Potential as a Crop

25

The Next Supper - A Conversation with Corey Mintz on the Future of Restaurants

26

Labour Shortage or Good Job Shortage? Why Are Restaurants Struggling to Get People?

27

Challenges to Making Animal Welfare Improvements

28

To Label or Not to Label - A Discussion on GM Foods

29

A Real Vertical Farm - Making a Difference in a First Nation Community

30

Farmers Are People Too - And We Need to Work to Understand Them Better

31

The Modern Dairy Vet - A Partner in Food Production

32

A New Food Frontier - A Discussion on Cellular Agriculture

33

What Eggactly is Going On? Understanding Animal Welfare in Laying Hens

34

Confessions of a Used Sunlight Salesman

35

Farmers And Carbon - Talking Both Taxes And Credits

36

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat - A discussion on our conflicted relationships with animals

37

Fraberts Fresh Foods - Keys to Thriving as a Small Player in Grocery Retail

38

Dairy and Palm: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and What We Need to Know

39

A Primer on Palm Oil and Dairy

40

Building Networks - Why Rural Broadband Matters

41

Cooking as Therapy with Chef Pam Fanjoy

42

Episode 50 - Chef Pam Fanjoy - A Different Kind of Food Business

43

An Overview Of Pork Production In Canada

44

Apocalypse Cow? What is the Future of Meat?

45

Digging Into Dirt Part 2: Making Soil Healthier and the Question of Sequestration

46

Digging Into Dirt II: Making Soil Healthier and the Question of Sequestration

47

Digging Into Dirt I: Intro to Soil

48

Bully Buyers? A Perspective on Retailer Supply Chain Fee Increases - MiniPod

49

Having the Critical Discussion of Mental Health in Ag

50

Food Security in the Pandemic - Income Rather than Availability

51

Online Grocery Delivery - A Perspective on Keys to Success

52

Mini Pod - Time to Tap Out on Tipping?

53

Hard Labour - Tackling the Problem of Labour in Agriculture

54

Objective: Zero Waste - Perspective from a Practitioner

55

Food and Families - Changes in the COVID Pandemic

56

Restaurants and COVID Part II - A Look at Restaurants of the Future

57

Restaurants and COVID Part 1 - Coming Out of Lockdown

58

Flour Power - Life as a Micro Miller

59

How Is COVID Changing Our Food Priorities?

60

Responding to Demand Shocks in Beef Production

61

Preparing for Changes in Agriculture 2020

62

Forecasting Food Trends in 2020

63

Talking to Farmers: A day in the life of a Dairy Farmer

64

At The Forefront of Food Product Development

65

VG Meats: A Small Food Processor in a Big Industry

66

Confessions of a Conflicted Omnivore

67

Edible Insects: The future of protein?

68

Second Harvest: Reaping what we grow

69

A Carnivore's Dilemma: Is the science rare, medium or well-done?

70

Biotechnology – How can we change the tone?

71

Preventing Antibiotic Resistance: We All Have a Role to Play

72

Farmhouse Tavern: Doing things differently for success

73

Talking To Vegans - Episode 2

74

Talking To Vegans- Episode 1

75

Why don't they get it? The parallels between vaccine hesitancy and mistrust in the food industry

76

Menu Mix – Integrating Sustainable Seafood into our Diets

77

The Team Tackles a Taste Test

78

Advocacy and Communication with the Fresh Air Farmer

79

Food Delivery: Fundamental change or just more choice?

80

Extraterrestrial Eats: Growing Food in Space

81

Social Media: Farmers’ Friend, Not Foe

82

A Food Policy for Canada

83

Balancing Choice and Trust in the Canadian Food System

84

Canadian Food: Possibilities And Opportunities

85

Fuel for Success: Hospitality Services at the University of Guelph

86

The Trade-offs of Supply Management

87

In A Better Place: From Bread to Beer

88

The Implications of Canada's New Food Guide

89

A Joint Effort – Cannabis and the Food Industry

90

Spoiler Alert: Is our food system as safe as we think?

91

Organic Food: Small but Mighty