The Green party wants Prince Edward Island to turn its agricultural industry entirely to organic production as soon as possible.
'Many of us are eating more organic than ever before.'— Sharon Labchuk
Islanders are starting to make a connection between big business food production and environmental and social havoc, interim Green leader Sharon Labchuk told a news conference Wednesday. She said many countries financially benefit from organic agriculture and P.E.I. can too.
"Many of us are eating more organic than ever before, and organic food production is the fastest growing sector of Canadian food production today," Labchuk said. "Organic agriculture is commercially practised in 120 countries and represented a $40 billion market in 2006."
Labchuk said that as the size of the agricultural industry increases, so does the damage it creates to the environment.
Sharon Labchuk boasted hers is the only truly green party.
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"Emerging from the destruction is a vision the Green party holds of a food future that is healthy, humane and sustainable, a food future that has potential to revitalize rural communities as well as the Prince Edward Island economy," she said.
The environment has been at the centre of this campaign, the first provincial contest with Green candidates.
But Labchuk boasted that hers is the only provincial party with a mandate that is truly green. She called the rest light green.
P.E.I. Votes 2007 Headlines »
- P.E.I. tide paints province Liberal red
- P.E.I.'s Liberal party cruised to a surprisingly easy victory in Monday's provincial election, crushing the governing Progressive Conservatives and reversing the seat count from the previous legislative session.
- Hasty promises, desire for change sank P.E.I. Tories
- Pat Binns and his Progressive Conservatives went down to defeat in Monday's Prince Edward Island election, at least in part because of how two campaign promises fed into Islanders' growing appetite for change.
- Liberal wave fails to flood Eastern P.E.I.
- Progressive Conservative candidates picked up all of their handful of successes in the eastern part of Prince Edward Island on Monday, as Liberals swept the rest of the province.
- Liberals sweep crucial districts
- The Liberal party took every key district they needed for victory Monday night, and then some.
- 6 ministers defeated as P.E.I. cabinet trounced
- Six of Pat Binns's cabinet ministers fell and two were re-elected as P.E.I. voters bounced the Progressive Conservative government out of office Monday night.
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