Slamming the farm gate behind us: we talk about your latest research Caddle, Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University research on COVID-19, food security and euthanizing animals: https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food/research/farmgate-waste.html Pigs being euthanized on the farms…bacon sales down - the thick underbelly of the foodservice industry - is no one cooking breakfast and some startling conclusions - Sylvain suggesting that making discarding managed commodities at farmgate illegal is a type of solution for at least some commodities. We have a "Bun fight! Stats Canada tells us the cost of centre-of-the-aisle went up - FCPC says their members don't set pricing, RCC says the retailers haven't raised prices: is something else going on? Some examples of commodities in the centre of the isle: Baked beans, +19%; Canned tomatoes, +19%, Canned carrots, +14%;, Canned soup, +12%, Bathroom tissue, +12%....." Half Baked Idea: Janis Stein from the Munk School says that meat processing plants can and should move to almost 100% digital/robots - is this a fantasy or is there any reality to that proposition? Grocery eCommerce: from nothing to something and back again? Or will Canadians finally love shopping online for groceries? Is Something fishy going on? Canadian Government commits $470 Million to fisheries in Canada - some percentage greater than what Agriculture received?
Welcome to the The Food Professor I’m Michael LeBlanc and I’m joined by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois!
Slamming the farm gate behind us: we talk about your latest research Caddle, Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University research on COVID-19, food security and euthanizing animals: https://www.dal.ca/sites/agri-food/research/farmgate-waste.html
Pigs being euthanized on the farms…bacon sales down - the thick underbelly of the foodservice industry - is no one cooking breakfast and some startling conclusions - Sylvain suggesting that making discarding managed commodities at farmgate illegal is a type of solution for at least some commodities.
We have a "Bun fight! Stats Canada tells us the cost of centre-of-the-aisle went up - FCPC says their members don't set pricing, RCC says the retailers haven't raised prices: is something else going on? Some examples of commodities in the centre of the isle: Baked beans, +19%; Canned tomatoes, +19%, Canned carrots, +14%;, Canned soup, +12%, Bathroom tissue, +12%....."
Half Baked Idea: Janis Stein from the Munk School says that meat processing plants can and should move to almost 100% digital/robots - is this a fantasy or is there any reality to that proposition?
Grocery eCommerce: from nothing to something and back again? Or will Canadians finally love shopping online for groceries?
Is Something fishy going on? Canadian Government commits $470 Million to fisheries in Canada - some percentage greater than what Agriculture received?
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