I made the below post on this article. I thought the site might lack the guts to publish it. So I am copying my post here. However, Two days down the line, I cannot see my post there at all. So I guess someone lost the guts to keep it there.

Uncomfortable truths?

Perhaps my mention of Canada hiding the safety documents on glyphosate is a touchy issue. This glaring and legal pot hole is avoided by the Government and supported by the mainstream media by simply keeping the topic from the people. I personally do not trust  Platforms such this Western Producer. Could it be that they avoid the issue on purpose, to keep it under the wraps, or could it be that they are intellectually incapable of grasping the concept of proof of safety?

Then there is this observation from me about selective focus of Canadian media where only western, so called “white” nations are newsworthy, and brown or blacks are not. Could such comments be getting under the skin of the platform? Cancer patient in California winning against Monsanto in court is big news, but dead farmers in Sri Lanka are not. Italy cancelling Canadian wheat is mentionable news, but that India is waking up to poisonous Canadian lentils is not yet news, and will not be news till it actually begins to bite them in the back?

Whatever the case, here is what I posted there. I might make a video of it, or refer to this blog in future.
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I am a Indian-born Canadian citizen and food security activist, and author of the book “POISON FOODS OF North America” based on analysis of CFIA test results on glyphosate. I have had quite a few hitherto unsuccessful meetings with federal and provincial (BC) politicians and ministers to push back at glyphosate in agriculture or anywhere else on the planet, unless Canada discloses hitherto hidden test records on safety of glyphosate, which the Govt received from Monsanto back in the 1970s and has been hiding till date. In my view of the constitutional law, no product may be released to the people without releasing its safety document. And yet, the government hides it, and replaces it with a plethora of “independent scientific repots” from around the world, selectively picked, that declare glyphosate to be safe.

All those reports are third party opinions and nothing more. Proof of safety involves exposing a group of test animals in laboratory conditions with measured dose of glyphosate, and comparing their health parameters, through the life of those animals, with health parameters of identical animals living identical lifestyle and eating identical food but without glyphosate. This comparative study is what comprises of proof if glyphosate is, or is not, safe. Pubic have a right to this data and be able to independently scrutinize it to check if the test and analysis was done honestly and there was no cheating. As the California court report indicates, Monsanto cheated and purposefully down played evidence of harm to test animals that were subjected to glyphosate. Worse yet, Monsanto has a habit of testing rats for only 3 months and not the life of the rats (usually 2 years), so that the test is concluded before some of the slow developing diseases, such as growth of cancerous cells, can be clearly identified and measured.

I have been battling the Canadian Government through Access to Information act appal so it releases all documents originally received from Monsanto back in the 1970 based on which health Canada first approved glyphosate for agriculture, or alternately I am given in writing that I do not have the right to those documents. The Government has indirectly agreed I have the right to the documents and yet it drags its feet for ever, hoping I shall die of old age so they can close the file.

Meanwhile, the analysis of Canadian seed crops that are desiccated with glyphosate show high continuation in virtually all cereals and products made from them. this includes wheat, rye, barley, oats, etc. That is not all, even seed crops that are not so common in Canadian diet but is grown in large quantities for export, such as pulses, are also desiccated. Millions of tons of red lentils are exported to India. India has not approved use of glyphosate in any food crop and only allows controlled amount in tea gardens. My book ‘POISON FOODS OF NORTH AMERICA’ shows the high contamination of glyphosate in lentils imported by India. I have warned Indians about it. I have been invited in multiple towns in India, such as Delhi (Capital) as well as Kolkata and Bangalore, to speak to people about this mass poisoning of India with a herbicide that is illegal in India and whose safety documents are hidden by the Canadian Government. This news has been picked up in more than a dozen mainstream papers in India, both in English and local languages.

Two provincial governments have passed orders to clamp down on all illegal sale, distribution or use go glyphosate in the last two weeks. One opposition MP has brought my warning to the floor of the Indian parliament during zero hour question and answer and changed the minister of Food for not taking care of protecting Indians from poisons that are banned in Indian agriculture but coming in bushel full from imported crops. The Ministry has promised to look into it and protect Indians from this menace.

I have met at least two provincial ministers in India who are far more receptive than Canadian ministers have been, I am sorry to say. The environment minister of the state of West Bengal invited me to write. a letter to him with attached documents covering a few issues, so he can bring it up in cabinet discussions – about how to push back at glyphosate on two fronts, one is from pulses imported from Canada and Australia and the second from illegal use of glyphosate pushed through corrupt agents trying to misguide farmers.

I know Canadian press, media and even social/agricultural platforms have an involuntary bias of primarily noticing what happens in western countries, such as Italy, California, France, Germany etc, and not what happens in countries with people that have dark skin, such as Sri Lanka or India for example. Otherwise, the issues taking place across India since I arrived to warn them of glyphosate laced lentils from Canada, or what happened in last four years in Sri Lanka, where huge number of farm workers died from kidney failure after starting to use glyphosate to spray sugarcane crops etc, would have made front page news.

I am trying my best to make India

• demand that Canada discloses the forty five year old hidden safety documents of Glyphosate and lets Indians to independently verify honesty and validity of those papers,
• Immediately cancel all imports of Canadian grains unless each parcel can be demonstrated to be free of all biocides that are not approved for use by India,
• Initiate broad based testing of all food for glyphosate and pay special attention to all imported grains from countries that are known to desiccate any crop with glyphosate
• Initiate independent lab test on safety of glyphosate to a few species of mammals, conducted through the entire life cycle of the animals, and
• disclose all data to the public.

I have been told near 8 million acres of farmland is allocated in Saskatchewan just to grow lentils for export to India, while nobody is measuring effects of it on wildlife and people’s health. I will not bother giving links on these because your admin might remove them.

For the sake of Canadian people and what is left of Canada’s forests and biodiversity, I am doing my best to convince Indian federal politicians and provincial governments to federally cancels or provincially disallow sale of any and all grain imports from Canada unless each parcel can be proven to be poison free.

Pardon any typo, since I wrote this on the fly and do not have the time to proof read it.

Cheers and have a great day everybody.

This is an emerging and evolving story – about ravages of glyphosate. Canadian media and agriculture is not just biased towards whatever happens in western so Called white skinned nations, but also are particularly ill-educated about nature and biodiversity, or how biocides work on living biology. IN short, the global positions seem to be shifting or turning on its head. Canada behaves more and more like a colonial era third world country with a slave mentality to whatever is doled down by USA or whoever holds its leash, and brown skinned nations begin to display better democratic character despite working against lots of odds.