The recent Silk and Great Value plant-based dairy recall, linked to Danone’s Pickering plant, has sparked concerns over the lack of transparency and delayed response, particularly in comparison to the highly publicized 2008 Maple Leaf Foods listeria crisis. Canadians deserve answers about why it took nearly a year after the first death to issue a recall and how such incidents can be prevented in the future.
European politics are notoriously intricate, and the recent EU elections have highlighted a growing fatigue in the West towards socialist and urban-centric policies that impact agriculture and the agri-food sectors.