Weeks 2-4: September 20-30, Weekly Reading #4 -  CURRENT EVENT: WILL THE CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD BE DISMANTLED? I found the most interesting elements in this article to be, one, that throughout the article it is stressed how important the issue is, and then the irony is that Canada’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Gerry Ritz couldn’t even be there for the meeting and had to send a representative. Another thing that I found interesting was that after the vote, the results showed 62% of wheat growers and 51% of barley growers wanted to keep their ability to manage the marketing of their own grain through the Canadian Wheat Board and 56% of eligible farmers voted in the plebiscite. I also found it interesting a quote that Jack Wilkinson said; "there are vast qualities of fertile land in the world, including in parts of Africa that are not being farmed, or are being farmed badly. The world is doing a very poor job of addressing drought and famine, choosing to react with food aid rather than spur local agricultural production." I found this interesting because the way the statement is generally put together is very appealing, and also the point he made about how we are leaving perfectly fertile land unused or damaging it because of our ignorance of the care it needs. He also said “there are enough calories to feed the entire world and we are failing to do so.” I cannot necessarily use anything I learned from this article to look for in the garden or apiary, but will try and be less wasteful and not allowing foods to spoil so quickly and taking the food I have for granted. A question that remains after reading this article is, because the article didn't necessarily explain the reasoning behind it, why doesn't The Wheat Board allow farmers to decide who to sell to?