Archival Publications
Weeds [49 KB]
Presented to the Canadian Weed Science Society Symposium Transgenic Herbicide Tolerant Crops: Agronomy, Environment and Beyond. Niagara Falls, ON 28 Nov 2005
Brief respecting Bill C-27, The Canadian Food Inspection Agency Enforcement Act [284 KB]
Presented to a Standing Committee on Agriculture, Bill C-27; Ottawa, ON Apr 05
Redesigning Academia to Support Organic Farming [134 KB]
Presented to the First Annual UBC Farm Research and Education Symposium, Vancouver, BC 1 Apr 05
Has Ag Biotech Lived Up to Its Promise? (and what should the scientific community do about it?) [178 KB]
Presented as the 2004 Helen Battle Lecture, University of Western Ontario, 25 Nov 2004
So, Who Really Won the Schmeiser Decision? [42.0 KB]
Presented to the National Farmers Union, Milverton, ON 10 June 2004
Genetically Engineered Crops: Myths and Realities [77 KB]
Presented to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, February 2003
Regulation of GM Crops in Canada: Science-Based or......? [91 KB]
Presented at Safe Food, Salt Spring Island, B.C. August 2003
Industry and Academic Biotechnology: teaching students the art of Doublespeak [205 KB]
Presented to Defusing Dissent, sponsored by the Canadian Association of University Teachers, Ottawa; Nov 2002.
Government and GM .....for whom.....by whom? [171 KB]
Presented to the Association Canadienne Francaise pour l'Avancement des Sciences, May 2002, University of Laval, Quebec
The Rise and Fall of Agricultural Biotechnology [121 KB]
Presented to the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research, Baden, Germany August 2001
A fanciful tale... On the Appeal of the Percy Schmeiser Decision
On the Implications of the Schmeiser Decision
Published in Genetics Society of Canada June 2001 Bulletin
Can You Afford GM Agriculture?
Presented to the Eco-Farm Conference at Asilomar, California 25 January 2001
Who is going to pay the externalized costs of GMOs?
Organic vs. Conventional Approaches to European Corn Borer on Sweet Corn
Article published in the 5 Sept 2000 issue of Voice of the Farmer
Regarding the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Parliamentarians and Technology: Meeting the Challenges for the New Millenium
AgBiotech Issues that Matter to Farmers: yield and profitability
Presented to the Canadian Wheat Board, Winnipeg, Manitoba. 28 February 2000
Pesticidal (GM) crops and organic farming
GMOS AND THE GLOBAL BACKYARD: What's an organic farmer to do?
The Impact of Biotechnology on Marketing of Agricultural Crops
Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Innovative Farmers of Ohio, 22 January 2000
Why is AgBiotech not ready for prime time?
Presented as the Elisabeth Laird lecture, University of Winnipeg, 18 January 2000
Food Safety of GM Crops in Canada: toxicity and allergenicity
Pre-2000 Publications
Academia in the Service of Industry: the ag biotech model
In Praise of Loose Cannon. We Need to Look Critically at GE Crops
Published in Better Farming (December 1999)
On the Agronomic and Environmental Risks of Field Crop GE
Presented to the Swift Current and Regina Branches of the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists, October 1999
Ten Reasons Farmers Should Think Twice Before Growing GE Crops
The Flawed Assumptions of Field Crop GE
Presented to Is Your Food Safe?, sponsored by the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada, 7/8 May 1999
Genetic Engineering in Field Crops: Ethics and Academia
Presented to the Annual Meeting of the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists, April 1999
Environmental Risks of GE: why you should take them seriously
The Forum of the Toronto Biotechnology Initiative, 15 April 1999, Toronto, ON
Debunking the Myths of Genetic Engineering in Field Crops
Alternatives, Kitchener, ON, 2 March 1999
Tailoring Research and Extension to Support Ecologically Sustainable Agriculture
Professional Development Program of the Northeast SARE Group, February 11, 1999
Genetic Engineering: risks and opportunities for organic farmers
Presented to the AGM, Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario, Formosa, ON 28 Nov 98
Toward a New Curriculum in Sustainable Agriculture
Agroecology Group, University of British Columbia, 2 October, 1998
Environmental Risks of Genetic Engineering in Field Crops
NAEC workshop Factoring in the Environment for Decisions on Biotechnology in Agricultural Production. 28 July 1998, Ottawa
Genetic Engineering: wrong answers to the wrong questions
The annual conference of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association,14 March 1998
Reorienting Agricultural Research Back to the Farm
Practical Partnerships. A New England Sustainable Agriculture Conference, Nov 1997, Portland, Maine
Luddite's View of Biotechnology
Select Seed Growers annual meeting at Elora 1997
Farming at the Agriculture : Environment Interface.
Seminar to the Agroecosystem Management group at Ohio State University in October 97
Risks of Genetic Engineering in Agriculture.
Annual meeting of the National Farmers Union, Nov. 1997, Saskatoon