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Clean Air Strategic Alliance Confined Feeding Operations Project Team reports;     CFO_Final_Report.pdf         CFO - Emissions Inventory .pdf            Management Mechanisms.pdf                                               Health & Environmental Effects.pdf      Jurisdiction/Regulations .pdf                                             

Online video "The World according to Monsanto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMleWZXhi6s

Resource on GMO crops http://www.seedsofdeception.com/utility/showArticle/?objectID=1565

Watch GMO video "FED UP"
Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hls6CDw6dVM
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NUJUXsE9EA&NR=1
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_WRljm517k&feature=relate

Watch Agricultural Writer; Micheal Pollan "Omnivores Dilemma"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy6jLvJ8K9Y&feature=channel

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The Peace River Environmental Society is very interested in ensuring that sustainable agricultural practices are used in producing food. Food safety, clean air, clean water, minimized pesticide use, biodiversity, peak oil, and climate change are all extremely important components of a healthy agricultural system. We are in agreement with the direction that The Canadian Environmental Network has taken in assuring that the environment will be protected and that sustainable agricultural practices are encouraged at all levels.

Denis Sauvageau

You can view the full document here;

http://www.cen-rce.org/eng/projects/2006conference/Green%20Paper%20final%20version%20feb%202007%20-%20e.pdf

RCEN Green Paper on Agriculture and the Environment
Executive Summary
February 2007
Even the most sustainable forms of agriculture have an impact on the environment: by
favouring some species – the crop plants and animals – over others, the farmer changes
the ecosystem within which agriculture takes place. A natural ecosystem becomes an
agro-ecosystem. That does not mean that agriculture cannot be environmentally
sustainable. Agro-ecosystems can be designed in such a way as to offer habitat to a wide
range of wild species and maintain a high level of biodiversity and ecosystem function.
However, in some parts of Canada the conversion of nearly all land to human land uses,
including agriculture, has led to the near extinction of native ecosystems. Agriculture is
also depleting and polluting natural resources: soil, water, air and biodiversity. More
sustainable agricultural systems, e.g. organic farming, exist and are implemented by a
minority of farmers. Society must support farmers in a move towards a more sustainable
Canadian agriculture, either by paying fair prices for products that cover the true cost of
sustainable production, or by a system of direct payments for environmental goods and
services.

Recommendations

• All government policy and policy instruments must include amongst their
objectives that of moving agriculture further towards environmental
sustainability.
• Every ecoregion in the country in which agriculture takes place needs an
agri-environmental management plan.
• Agro-ecosystems must be designed to naturally support healthy and thriving
populations of crop plants and animals without the use of pesticides or
verterinary drugs.
• Funding for the National Agri-Environmental Standards Initiative (NAESI)
should be extended.
• The National Agri-Environmental Health Analysis and Reporting Program
(NAHARP) should be expanded.
• Research is needed on the development of crops that are better adapted to
local growing conditions, including the agricultural potential of native plants.
• All income support programs for agriculture should in some way be tied to
environmental performance of the farm. Direct payments for environmental
goods and services should be considered where needed.
• Greater emphasis is needed on local and regional agricultural production for
local consumption.

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