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- Title: Glyphosate Petition
- Author : Tony Mitra
- Release Date : January 31, 2016
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1117084 KB
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It has been a number of years since I have been trying to find a solution to the increasing potential toxic load on our food. It was through the months spent with Dr. Thierry Vrain crisscrossing Canada that I came to have a better understanding of the chemical Glyphosate and its role in the entire business of patented and gene altered food web business.
I have been fortunate to have exchanges with a number of others too such as Shiv Chopra Staphanie Seneff, Anthony Samsel, Andrรฉ Comeau, Judy Hoy, Rod Cumberland, Gilles Eric Seralini, P.M. Bhargava, Debal Deb, etc, each of whom have enriched me with their wisdom and perspective.
Then there was the famous court cases across the world, where farmers took either Monsanto or a neighbour to court on account of GM crops and GM technology, and Monsanto always won, or did it? I have followed two court cases in India, where the litigants took the Government instead of Monsanto, to court and have a wholly different experience.
It was through the case filed by Ms Aruna Rodrigues against the Union of India in the Indian supreme court, that I came across a very valuable information. The safety data of a product, which in the case in India related to bt.eggplant, cannot be kept away from the people of India if the eggplant was to be released. In other words, legal clauses on confidentiality and intellectual property rights cannot trump public safety.
Armed with this knowledge, I had twice opened appeal with the Canadian Federal Government, on Glyphosate. The first one was to ask them to release to me each and every result of all tests it had conducted on food for concentration of Glyphosate so far. The second was to disclose to me all safety test data it has seen on glyphosate, which were used as evidence by the Government, to decide that Glyphosate was safe, and based on which it approved its use in Canadian agriculture.
The result of those two efforts, where the Government essentially drags its feet and gives you very little and too slow to eventually wear you down, I finally decided to open a petition, for the Government to disclose all safety data to the Canadian people, which I believed to be the law, and denying which I believe would be illegal. This petition has gotten over 22,000 supporters, 98% of who are Canadian.
I have asked to see my PM and cabinet minister hon. Carla Qualtrough about this, and she has me a meeting in late April 2016. The updates on this petition and accompanying comments, are a good reference material, and deserves to be collected and preserved for reference. This electronic interactive book is an effort to that end.
In general, this could be the best, or perhaps the only, detailed reference book on citizen activism to push back at the toxic load of Glyphosate from the ground up by citizens. This book will be continuously updated with more information, so readers that got an earlier version should consider updating it time to time.