Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (March 1, 2002)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Anyone for seconds? In the 1960s, the average Canadian grocery store carried about 300 items, of which two thirds were grown or processed within 150 kilometres of the store. Today, grocery stores carry thousands of items many of which are shipped in from every part of the world where standards of hygiene and inspection are not as high as they are in Canada. (Food -- Safety).		Statistical Data Included	2437
Canadian growth industry: we don't have to go to some drought-stricken corner of Africa to find hunger; it's right here in our own neighbourhoods. (Food -- Hunger At Home).		Brief Article	894
Factory food: to encourage students into the chemistry laboratory, teachers used to say the subject was like cooking. These days, it is truer to say cooking is like chemistry; just look at the list of ingredients on the labels of most prepared foods. (Food - Industrialized).		Statistical Data Included	2445
Food on line: at Google.com a search under the word "food" delivers more than 33 million hits, more than one million of them in Canada. This has to be a reflection of how important food is to our daily lives. (Food -- Comment).		Brief Article	540
Harvest failure: around the world, an estimated 815 million people remain undernourished. That's the finding of a 2001 report from the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization. (Food -- Hunger Abroad).		Statistical Data Included	2037
Pharming: the food industry says genetically modified food is perfectly safe; consumers, environmentalists, and many others aren't so sure. (Food - GM Food).		Statistical Data Included	2817
Quote ... unquote.		Brief Article	245
You are what you eat -- unfortunately; for something that's so central to our survival, it seems few of us get our intake of food right. (Food -- Diet).		Statistical Data Included	2793