GMO food

Homemade tortillas made on the comal (griddle) heated by wood. Central Valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico. (Jean-Claude Teyssier)

Why heirloom tortillas are an endangered species

Left in the hands of Mexico’s aging campesinos, ancestral corn is at risk of becoming extinct. And that leaves not only a culinary hole, but one in the planet’s biodiversity.

Canadians ate 4.5 tonnes of unlabelled GM salmon without knowing it this past year

The world’s first shipment of genetically-modified salmon arrived in Montreal last year. After that, it’s impossible to track where it went. Why all the secrecy?