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Open letter to the EFSA Chief Attorney About Re-licensing Glyphosate in the EUBy Colin Todhunter
Global Research, May 18, 2016
Region: Europe
This week, a Standing Committee of plant scientists from 28 member states in Europe is likely to endorse the European Food Safety Authoritys (EFSA) findings so that the European Commission (under pressure from Monsanto, Glyphosate Task Force and others) can re-authorise glyphosate for another nine years. This is despite the WHO classifying glyphosate as being probably carcinogenic to humans.
An open letter from campaigner Rosemary Mason to Dirk Detken, Chief Attorney to the EFSA, follows the brief background article you are about to read. In the letter, Mason highlights the regulatory delinquency concerning the oversight of glyphosate in the EU. The evidence provided by Mason might lead many to agree that processes surrounding glyphosate regulation in Europe amount to little more than a cesspool of corruption.
There are around 500 million people in the EU. They want EU officials to uphold the public interest and to be independent from commercial influence. They do not want them to serve and profit from commercial interests at cost to the publics health and safety. However, what they too often get are massive conflicts of interest: see here about the revolving door problem within official EU bodies, here about the European Food and Safety Authoritys independence problem and here about chemical conflicts in the ECs scientific committees for consumer issues.
And they get governing bodies that are beholden to massive corporate lobbying: see here about the fire power of the financial lobby and here about who lobbies most for TTIP, with agribusiness being the biggest lobby group behind this secretive and corrupt trade deal that is attempting drive a policy agenda above the heads of the European people and contrary to their wishes (see this on TTIP as well).
Regulators turn a blind eye to the deleterious effects of products that pose a serious systemic risk to the public: see here about the glyphosate toxicity studies youre not allowed to see and here case closed by EFSA on Roundup, despite new evidence.
Full article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsanto-and-the-poisoning-of-europe/5525765
and here, since some were whining about the source:
Colin Todhunter is an extensively published independent writer and former social policy researcher based in the UK and India.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/18/monsanto-and-the-poisoning-of-europe/
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No, your posts are pathetic look at me crap that idolize a poison giant you seem
polly7
May 2016
#19
Doubling down with Shiva and Mercola doesn't make the lies about India's suicides go away.
HuckleB
May 2016
#25
Anyone who uses the right wing quack Mercola as a source obviously doesn't have a "fucking clue" one
Major Nikon
May 2016
#32
Sure, that's why you have to parrot out a right wing quack and AIDS denialist for your proof
Major Nikon
May 2016
#34
Perhaps, but I don't have to rely on right wing AIDS deniers and loony bins for my evidence
Major Nikon
May 2016
#38
Awww ........... need a little teeny fiddle for your poor, poor Monsanto - the perpetual victim?
polly7
May 2016
#39
Do you really think your easily debunked lies are doing your cause any good?
Major Nikon
May 2016
#40
Pretty stupid of you. Here's Bill Nye pointing out how the Monarch butterfies were decimated
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#47
Pretty stupid of you to quote Nye completely out of context and pretend that's what he meant
Major Nikon
May 2016
#50
Quote seems pretty on target to me as a response to your Facebook crap. Also,
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#59
Right, because poisons are always so safe and this multi-billion dollar industry has nothing
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#8
I know enough to avoid poisons and not want them used. the simplistic WHO procouncement,
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#24
No, but anyone who spews the significance of IARC classifications probably should
Major Nikon
May 2016
#29
Disengenuous apples and oranges comparisons. I am also not only relying on the IARC, as you seem
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#45
No, you call me a "Conspiracy theorist". Fuck you. How's that for telling?
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#54
We are talking about Roundup, and man made poisons and the mega-corporations behind
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#53
I did. Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to say. I do take this from the end, which
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#56
No, you prefer to support exsiting posions, I prefer to call them what they are. Poison and it
FighttheFuture
May 2016
#58