To, the Manager,
Walmart,
12451 88th Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3W 1P8, (604)-597-7117
Subject: Testing for food sold in Walmart Store, for presence of Glyphosate
Good day,
We, Canadians For Testing Glyphosate, a citizen’s grassroots body, are engaging in a massive citizen driven nationwide program to test if Glyphosate is present in our water and soil, in our body, and in the food sold in our stores, such as in Walmart, Surrey, BC.
In case yo
u are wondering what Glyphosate might be – it is the active ingredient (poison that kills organisms) in Monsanto’s ‘RoundUp’ herbicide weed killer, and what is suspected to be linked to epidemic level rise of a multitude of serious illnesses and deaths, and possible species extinctions in the last 20 years.
In that respect, we intend to test food items from your store such as :
Baby formulae
Cow milk
Bread
Corn
Canola and other cooking oil
Beet
Meat products such as Beef, Chicken and Pork
Our legal team is advising that we do not need to either inform you or take your permission, to test these products, and that we have the right, as citizens living in a free country, to test the food that we buy to eat from any store that is open to public.
However, this letter is sent to seek your opinion on this, and to check if you might like to join us in this test. Good quality tests involving, say the ELISA method (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) costs around $150 or so per test in an accredited lab. We shall be glad if your organization decides to join us by funding some of these “independent” tests on your own products.
We are planning to conduct them any way, but thought it might look better if your store were perceived to be cooperating.
Also, should you have an objection to the testing, i.e. if your position is that we may eat what we buy from you, but we may not test it, I shall appreciate if you shall validate that with a proper statement.
Lastly, we aim to be a transparent organization that let the public know of our involvements in this regard, so this letter, and others like it, may be circulated among members and in social media and internet, for others to either write similar letters, or compose their own.
I shall be more than happy to meet you or speak with you about our effort, and shall be looking forward to any response from you.
Absence of a response will be taken as you do not feel comfortable discussing this matter with us.
Thanking you
On behalf of Canadians for Testing Glyphosate
Tony Mitra
(address)
To, the Management, supplier.support@safeway.com, ecredi@safeway.com
Safeway, Canada
7450 120 St, Surrey, BC, (604) 594-7341
Subject: Testing for food sold in Safeway, for presence of Glyphosate
Good day,
We, Canadians For Testing Glyphosate, a citizen’s grassroots body, are engaging in a massive citizen driven nationwide program to test if Glyphosate is present in our water and soil, in our body, and in the food sold in our stores, such as in Walmart, Surrey, BC.
In case you are wondering what Glyphosate might be – it is the active ingredient (poison that kills organisms) in Monsanto’s ‘RoundUp’ herbicide weed killer, and what is suspected to be linked to epidemic level rise of a multitude of serious illnesses and deaths, and possible species extinctions in the last 20 years.
In that respect, we intend to test food items from your store such as :
Baby formulae
Cow milk
Bread
Corn
Canola and other cooking oil
Beet
Meat products such as Beef, Chicken and Pork
Our legal team is advising that we do not need to either inform you or take your permission, to test these products, and that we have the right, as citizens living in a free country, to test the food that we buy to eat from any store that are open to public.
However, this letter is sent to seek your opinion on this, and to check if you might like to join us in this test. Good quality tests involving, say the ELISA method (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) costs around $150 or so per test in an accredited lab. We shall be glad if your organization decides to join us by funding some of these “independent” tests on your own products. We are planning to conduct them any way, but thought it might look better if your store were perceived to be cooperating.
Also, should you have an objection to the testing, i.e. if your position is that we may eat what we buy from you, but we may not test it, I shall appreciate if you shall validate that with a proper statement.
We aim to be a transparent organization that let the public know of our involvements in this regard, so this letter, and others like it, may be circulated among members and in social media and internet, for others to either write similar letters, or compose their own.
I shall be more than happy to meet you or speak with you about our effort, and shall be looking forward to any response from you.
Absence of a response will be taken as you do not feel comfortable discussing this matter with us.
Incidentally, we found it rather difficult to locate an applicable contact email for making suggestions to the Manager of the Store in the address given above. In that respect, the Safeway website seemed designed make it difficult for customers to send any email to the management. It seemed designed to tell customers many things, but with no mechanism to listen from them. Thus, we send this message to the only two emails we could locate after some searching around, at http://suppliers.safeway.com/
Should this message be better directed to another person or department, I request that this be done.
Thanking you
On behalf of Canadians for Testing Glyphosate
Tony Mitra,
(address)
tony.mitra@gmail.com