iPolitics By Kelsey Johnson. Published on Apr 15, 2021 12:55pm (Unsplashed.com photo)
Good day and welcome to the Sprout, where it’s National Takeout Day so please, support your local restaurants today. They need all the support we can give them during these tough times. For the foodies among us, it’s also National Glazed Spiral Ham day, which seems a bit over the top for this Thursday in April.
Here’s today’s agriculture news.
The Lead
We start with an immigration update. The federal government says it plans to introduce a new pathway to permanent residency for foreign nationals working essential jobs here in Canada, including general farm workers, nursery and greenhouse workers.
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on Mar 5, 2021 5:41pm
In the week since the Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) asked their members to consider using alternatives to supplements containing palm byproducts, vice-president David Wiens admits there’s no way to gauge how many farmers have complied with the request.
The controversy, dubbed “buttergate,” arose in recent weeks from online discussions of why butter wasn’t getting soft at room temperature. That led Dalhousie University professor Sylvain Charlebois to write in the Canadian Grocer last month that, “since last summer, thousands of dairy farmers have been using livestock feed that has palm oil in it,” calling it the “most plausible reason” for the hardness of butter.