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If your breakfast this morning includes sausages, do you really know what you’re eating? That’s because there’s a significant chance that what you think is in your sausage isn’t the whole story. Today in The Conversation Canada, we bring you up to speed on food fraud. John Keogh, who researches food supply train transparency at the University of Reading, notes “consumers are at an increased risk of buying lower-quality food than what they paid for, or worse, eating food with unsafe ingredients or undeclared allergens.” And about your breakfast
sausages…research has shown that about 20 per cent of sausages sold in Canada may contain “undeclared species.” Enjoy your breakfast!
Also today for your reading pleasure:
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A seafood counter is shown at a store in Toronto in 2018. A study that year found 61 per cent of seafood products tested at Montréal grocery stores and restaurants were mislabelled. Fish is a common victim of food fraud.
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John G. Keogh, University of Reading
Trust in our global food supply chains remains a concern. For the foreseeable future, much of Canada’s food fraud remains hidden in plain sight, sitting right there on our grocery store shelves.
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A Congolese family approaches the unofficial border crossing with Canada while walking down Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y., in August 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Charles Krupa.
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Grace Wu, University of Lethbridge; Johanna Reynolds, York University, Canada; Julie Young, University of Lethbridge
Canadian leaders have desperately tried to preserve the country's image of liberal humanitarianism at our border, but the reality is Canada's immigration history is built upon exclusion.
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Michael Bradley, University of Saskatchewan
A paper published by researchers at Google claimed that they had achieved computing quantum supremacy, but leaks and counter-claims have created a stir.
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A photo of the last truck to be assembled on the General Motors production line, shown at a sports bar where GM workers congregated after their work work at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont., on its final day of vehicle production, on Dec. 18, 2019.
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Alix J. Jansen, University of Toronto; Beth Martin, University of Toronto; Elizabeth Dhuey, University of Toronto; Linda A. White, University of Toronto; Michal Perlman, University of Toronto
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La chirurgie au laser est effectuée avec succès dans 95 % des cas. Mais l'opération peut tourner au cauchemar. Les traitements sont alors complexes car il s'agit un champ nouveau en médecine, peu documenté.
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Langis Michaud, Université de Montréal
La chirurgie au laser est effectuée avec succès dans 95 % des cas. Mais l'opération peut tourner au cauchemar. Les traitements sont alors complexes car il s'agit un champ nouveau en médecine, peu documenté.
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Business + Economy
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Mary Williams, University of Portsmouth
It's a bold move, but publishers are increasingly desperate to attract digital readers to offset the fall in print sales.
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Culture + Society
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Sharon Austin, University of Florida
A minority politics scholar assesses black progress 52 years after MLK's death based on poverty, jobs and wealth. 'In some ways,' she concludes, 'we've barely budged as a people.'
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Politics
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Philip C. Almond, The University of Queensland
With President Donald Trump's frequent use of the term "witch hunt" he paints himself as a victim. The women persecuted in one of history's darkest chapters should not be forgotten so easily.
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