- Volume 4 (2009), Issue 1
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Canadian Seed Regulation: Precautionary Principle – Not really! Precautionary Approach – Sort of? Precautionary and Logical – Within Limits.
Canadian Seed Regulation I. Introduction The New Yorker magazine had a cartoon by Alex Gregory wherein one caveman says to another “Something’s just not right – our air is clean, our water is pure, we all get plenty of exercise, everything we eat is organic and free range and nobody lives past thirty.” 1 Often belief is a substitute for fact. An open question is whether domestic and international regulatory regimes need to respect beliefs. The re