Canadians are fed up with a Government that is not perceived to be telling the truth or testing if Canadians are getting poisoned with RoundUp weed killer.

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Whenever independent scientists raise alarm on the increasing level health risks being faced by the people through increased usage an exposure to Glyphosate, the killer poison in Monsanto’s RoundUp, such scientists get sacked, or their funds removed, labs closed down, papers retracted, gag order imposed and banished from the scientific community.

There has hardly been examples of such one sided censorship of science every since Copernicus got into trouble with the Church groups for stating what was obvious about the relative movements of the Sun and planet earth.

Credibility of mainstream science, be it from EPA or USDA or from Health Canada, has sunk below zero, and acquired a negative value, so much so that if a Government agency says this or that pesticide is good for us, people will form their own opinion that the pesticide MUST be bad. People no more trust the Government, or the scientists working for them, or the biotech lobby that appears to have captured the Government and international agencies that relate to sale and trade of these items.

So, Canadians have decided to engage in a massive citizen action to test how much Glyphosate poisoning (poisoned by Monsanto’s RoundUp weed killer) they have been subjected to, through their water, their soil, their food and how much of it has gotten inside of them. They do not wish to engage in any scientific debate on it with the health care wing of the Government any more, since the Government has not, and apparently will not, engage in any independent third party analysis of long term health risks posed by GMO or pesticides through any institution that is outside of economic or political control of either the biotech industry or the Government. Canadian Government is perceived to have given up on any pretence on supporting independent safety analysis of carcinogens that it unleashes on its people.

So, Canadian citizens are engaging in testing for themselves, for their own knowledge, of how much poisoning they have been exposed to. They are going to do this bypassing the entire political establishment, entire mainstream scientific community and the medical profession, all political parties and all organized NGO or activism groups. This is a grassroots organization that is from the people, by the people and for the people. They want to know, they believe they have a right to know and they are going engage directly themselves, to find out.
A lot of low income group people may be unable to even pay $25 for testing their urine of the bread they buy from the local Walmart of Safeway, food banks or various sources of junk food. Yet, eating the most economical food available to them, they may be more exposed than many others. Some may already be sick.

So we have a crowd funding scheme to pay for these needy brothers and sisters. Click on the image below to go there.

COST ESTIMATE

• Dr. Samsel : Urine, breast milk or water. US$ 100. Paid directly to Dr. Samsel at P.O. Box 131, Deerfield, NH 03037, USA. Dr. Samsel will send the sample kit and the questionnaire to the candidate.
• A Canadian lab will test Glyphosate in water for CAD 105. Can be done through us.
• US Labs will do batch tests of water, urine, bread, corn, cooking oil etc for about CAD 28 each plus courier charges, for batch processing using ELISA 96T kit for about 40 samples at a time, through us. They are not acredited.
• US Labs will process batch of 96 for the same samples as above, but tested through a certified lab, for $50 to 60 per sample. to be done through us.
• Microbe Inotech Laboratories, St. Louis, MO, USA will do water & urine (USD 110), Breast milk $130, Soil or grain for $145 US. Through us.

Here is a link to the original pdf about joining up, for those that need to download and print, in case you wish to pass it to local community members or concerned citizens. We are looking for regional coordinators.

If you wish to join up – write to Glyphosate.testing@gmail.com
or stay tuned to this blog site. We shall overcome.

To: The Government of British Columbia
Ministry of Agriculture
Date: June 13, 2014

Good day

I represent Canadians for Glyphosate Testing – a grassroots organization that is engaging in cross Canada mass testing for Glyphosate, the active poison in Monsanto’s RoundUP weed killer, in our water, our urine, feces, breast milk of mothers, and in the food sold in our stores.

We are doing it on our own as we feel that our Government has neglected to engage in this important task. How we know the Government has neglected this task is because we have asked about it to the Federal Government without getting a clear answer, and because we have discovered that Canada does not have labs where a citizen can test for Glyphosate in human body fluids, or in animals or food products.

I found your web page at (http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/pesticides/g_1.htm) interesting, since it alerts people about pesticide poisoning. It however makes no mention of testing if people have been poisoned with Glyphosate, which we find regrettable.

We have located labs in the US that will test for Glyphosate in human and animal body fluids as well as food. Costs run between $25 or so for bulk-tests or over $100 for individual tests.
We have started the process of people paying for their own tests, and to gather a nationwide database on where Canada stands with regard to Glyphosate poisoning. We are doing it without the government.

Being a true grassroots organization, we reject political parties, and distance ourselves from NGO or special interest groups.

We are sending this note to your ministry, because we believe it is the Agriculture industry that may be most responsible for Glyphosate poisoning in our country, and to check if you might like to join us in any way to conduct this “third party” independent testing. While approval of RoundUp herbicide along with 2,4-D etc are the job of Health Canada in Ottawa, we believe responsibility for allowing application of these nasty substances in British Columbia, without there being any independent test on their safety, done anywhere in Canada or in the entire universe, rests at your feet.

We believe you already know about the epidemic level rise of serious illnesses that show strong correlation with the rise of Glyphosate usage in the US. We do not have corresponding correlation for Canada – not because there is no relation, but because data on year by year Glyphosate usage, and year by year reported illnesses on Crohn’s, Celiac, Kidney Failure, Autism, infertility, birth defects etc on humans are not available from Government sources. Should you be able to get those details for us, say for the past 20 years, we shall be very thankful.

Being an open source, transparent, grassroots organization with nothing to hide, we intend to let our members and the general public know that we sent you this letter. It may therefore be circulated through email, social media and the internet.

Looking forward to your input and possible assistance in getting a large scale testing undertaken in BC, and to check if BC can have an accredited lab that can test Glyphosate in human and animal body fluids at a cost point that are within reach of the lower income people, who are suspected to be most affected by Glyphosate poisoning through junk food and food bank supplements.

Should you be willing to have a meeting to discuss these issues, we shall be glad to present our delegation to talk these out with you. Meanwhile, we are proceeding with our nationwide drive to check level of Glyphosate poisoning in us, and we wonder if you will support, or frown at this citizens action.

Thanking you
With Best wishes
Tony Mitra
(address & tel)

Links:
www.tonu.org

Below scheme has now been cancelled. The original deal fell through as the lab involved stopped supporting the price point deal. However, a lot of labs in the US and Canada will test human urine and body fluids for glyphosate, using different methods and for different prices – ranging from around USD 100 upwards.

What is described here were batch processing deals of 40 samples at a time for average cost of under USD 30 per sample. That deal, unfortunately, has been cancelled.

You can find more information on who tests urine for glyphosate by googling it. If you need more information, you can send me an email at tony.mitra@gmail.com.

Worried about

• Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide getting in your drinking water?
• If it has gotten in your body?
• someone that is sick from Celiac, Crhon’s, Autism?
• if breast milk of young mothers already have it?
• if milk from dairy cows fed with GM cattle feed has Glyphosate?
• If the bread you eat from the supermarket has Roundup in it?

Here is a chance to join up on a nationwide testing scheme.

People who have so far shown interest in representing their town, region, province etc towards a Canada wide Glyphosate testing scheme and might like to be a part of an exploratory conference call are :
Myself (Delta, BC)
Sheryl McCumsey (Edmonton, AB)
Brandie Nadiger-Harrop (Edmonton, AB)
Barbara Louise (Edmonton, AB)
Aleksandra Cupial-Crook (Lethbridge, AB)
Melissa Bodeleau (Cold Lake, AB)
Rob Bright (Toronto, ON)
Tina Jensen (London, ON)
Craig Weiss (Monstreal, QC)
Mike Eddy (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Rose Stevens (Winnipeg, MB)
Melissa Richardson (Holdfast, SK)
Zoe Swartz (US east coast)
Zen Honeycutt (CA, USA)
Mark Reed (East coast, USA)

• The first conference call on this project is scheduled for 8 PM Atlantic, 4 PM Pacific time Tuesday, on June 3rd. Anyone not in the above list but wishing to get on board, should contact Rose Stevens or Brandie Harrop.

We are still missing, New Brunswick, PEI & Newfoundland and the territories up north. Looking for participants/ organizers from those provinces and areas.

Dear friends

Many Canadians have reached a conclusion that they do not want GMO and its associate pesticide in their environment, in their food and in their person.

They are no more interested to listen to politicians tap dance around the issue. They no more wish to get mired into an endless debate on the science of it. They do not trust the Government, and do not believe that the established science faculties will tell the truth. They have already concluded, perhaps justifiably, that the Government and the mainstream science establishments have come under an unholy control of corporations and aim to undermine Canada’s independence. Canada’s heritage, biological diversity, and national intellectual property over its flora and fauna, as well as food sovereignty, are all under attack of a patent holding regime of foreign corporations that are busy corrupting the political and academic foundations of our nation.

The question at hand is – how much of Glyphosate, the 900 pound gorilla of the food web, has gotten into our environment, and who is keeping a watch on it?

The answer is – nobody knows. The Government has set some limit on how much of it is acceptable in water without conducting any independent long term testing of what Glyphosate can do to living creatures. What is even worse, they seem to have no limits set on its concentration in human beings or other animals. There seem to be no lab in Canada among the CALA list of certified labs, that can test Glyphosate in human breast milk, or cow milk, or bread, or grain or much anything except for water and soil, and perhaps urine.
We have come to suspect that, contrary to Monsanto’s claims, Glyphosate seems to accumulate in humans and other animals, from the recent tests by Americans, where Glyphosate was noted in breast milk of nursing mothers. This suggests that unborn fetus as well as newborns are getting Glyphosate from their mother through umbilical chord and later through mother’s milk. Fetuses and newborns are particularly susceptible since they have not had time to develop a healthy growth of gut bacteria and an immunity that can resist attacks from antibiotics such as Glyphosate. We know diseases are rising to epidemic levels including in new borns and infants. Has Canada conducted independent study on how it affects pregnant animals or how it is right now affecting pregnant women? No it has not and is not.

So, bypassing the Government and its apparatus, we Canadians are getting ready to test our environment, our persons and our loved ones, tested for presence of Glyphosate. To that end, we have basically a few quotes and rates so far available. This list will get better as time passes. Meanwhile, here are the options available right now.

1) Anthony Samsel/ Stephanie Seneff – Cambridge, Massachusetts, $100
Dr. Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff are offering tests on breast milk, water, urine, blood or milk products etc, for US$ 100 each. They will mail the sample kit, with the questionnaire to any address in Canada if they can receive a cheque for US$ 100. They are trying to set up a better system where by one can make a payment with credit card or paypal etc. They will get it tested by a certified lab and reports emailed back.

Two young nursing mothers in PEI have already decided to be the first through the door, getting their breast milk tested in the US. The results will be emailed to them. We hope to get a copy. These two women are careful with their food, and only eat organic. Nonetheless their results would be a good datum.

I encourage others to also join up. This seems to be, for now, the best bet for breast milk, cow milk, and such. We are ready to collect more samples. I am ready to send my own urine, or my tap water, and I shall pay for at least one more person that is perhaps suffering from Glyphosate poisoning, and cannot pay for the test.

2) Bulk analysis, under US$ 25 ea, batch of 96
For things other than milk, such as water, and urine, blood etc, there are other labs, who can do it in batches of 96. The total package including testing would cost about US$ 15.26 plus postage for shipping the samples to the lab. They would need 6 weeks for the results. The labs that do the testing with be certified for general work, may not be accredited for Glyphosate testing. The results are supposed to be good for indication even if they may or may not hold up in court. This way one can get a lot more bang for the buck and perhaps get more tests under the belt, and later decide if specific samples or areas or people need to be subjected to more rigorous and therefore more costly, testing.

I am considering sending sample of the same source to both alternatives – such as my urine to both 1) and 2) just to see if the results are identical or if there is a difference.

Those that need even higher accuracy and willing to pay even higher cost, but only available for water or soil, can pay between US$ 200 and 300 and do it in some Canadian labs. For now, we are not focusing on these labs, for the citizen’s testing.

Perhaps having a conference call, with one or two from each province, on Skype, would be a good idea, to air out the issues and see what we should do.

I think we should pursue a two pronged approach. Testing breast milk, as well as milk from cows that are fed GM feed, would raise the issue of how much of our food is contaminated and to what extent. It would also prove, in the case of both the cow and the nursing mothers, that Glyphosate does bio-accumulate, and can trigger a series of illnesses in new borns and grown ups, for which there has been no independent study.

Same time, testing our tap water, ground water, bread, cake, Canola, sugar etc at US$16 a test should cover a lot of ground for us. We shall need volunteers that can put all this into a database and put up results on line for us and for Canada to check where we stand. We can hope to shame the Govt, or if it proves to be shameless, then force the Govt, to act.

In another important development, MP Mr. Alex Atamanenko spoke with me yesterday and wishes to take these issues up directly with the Minister of Health from his end as well.

I am up for suggestions. What does everybody think ? Anybody interested, can give us a shout, in Facebook, or by email.

People interested to join up in the Glyphosate testing drive may write directly to: glyphosate.testing@gmail.com

Cheers
Tony Mitra

tony.mitra@gmail.com

To: MLA: Hon. Steve Thomson

Kelowna-Mission

Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations,

E-mail: steve.thomson.mla@leg.bc.ca

Dear Honourable Minister Thomson,

Subject: Pesticide use in BC Forestry, and a request for a talk/podcast

Good day sir,

I am a citizen of Canada, a resident of British Columbia, a retired Marine Enigineer, a citizen journalist, blogger, podcaster and videographer. I have been concerned and engaged with sustainable agriculture issues, food security and environment protection. I often talk with to people around the world, scientists, policy analysts, activists, NGO, politicians etc, on record, to put up audio podcasts for public awareness on issues related to GMO, pesticides, and environmental degradation.

My blog site that covers it all is at : www.tonu.org

I write to you with specific questions with regard to use of pesticides in BC forests. Reference is made to the Government publication from Environment Canada, named “PRESENCE AND LEVELS OF PRIORITY PESTICIDES IN SELECTED CANADIAN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS”, dated March 2011, which describes the pesticide load for British Columbia as:

QUOTE

In 2003, pesticide sales in British Columbia totalled 4,666,709 kg of active ingredients. The majority of pesticides were sold and used in the forestry sector, with anti-microbial products (e.g., wood preservatives) accounting for 71.7% of total sales. Of the remaining 28.3%, sales were distributed among insecticides (8.8%), fungicides (6.5%), herbicides (6.1%) and other pesticides (6.9%) (Brimble et al., 2005). Twenty of the 287 active ingredients registered for use in British Columbia accounted for 93% of sales. Ten pesticide active ingredients were used exclusively in the agriculture sector and accounted for 63% of total sales. They were insecticidal and herbicidal mineral oils; the herbicide glyphosate; the fungicides sulphur, mancozeb, chlorothalonil and captan; the insecticides diazinon and Bacillus thuringiensis, as well as the fumigants metam and methyl bromide (Brimble et al., 2005). Between 1991 and 2003, four active ingredients were consistently reported among the highest sales volumes: mineral oil (insecticidal or adjuvant), glyphosate (herbicide), sulphur (fungicide) and mancozeb (fungicide) (Brimble et al., 2005). In British Columbia, the Lower Fraser Valley and Okanagan Basin account for 46% and 44% respectively of the agricultural and domestic-use pesticides sold in British Columbia (ENKON Environmental Ltd., 2005).

UNQUOTE

We find the case for British Columbia, as described above, quite unique in Canada, as no other province seems to have wood preservative in forestry listed as the most used pesticide.

We are aware of citizen groups that are organizing right now to get their waters, as well as urine, blood and breast milks tested for presence of pesticides, following the trend started by the Mothers Across America group in the US. I have personally been also following this issue, and am involved with some talking tours across Canada, on what the science is telling, or not telling, and what a citizen of Canada could do to protect his/her health and that of their children, from accidental unwanted exposure to carcinogens.

We are also aware of the efforts of environment groups such as David Suzuki Foundation and Eco-Justice etc to challenge Health Canada to reconsider continued approval of dangerous chemicals as pesticides without independent testing, whereas the same chemicals may be banned elsewhere, where they did conduct such testing and found them to pose a health hazard.

In this regard, I request you to :

1. Provide information on the breakdown of this “wood preservative”. What does it consist of? How does it preserve wood from attack from insects or bacteria? Who has tested if this is harmful to humans of the environment? Does it accumulate in the soil, water, or animal tissue? etc etc. If your office can furnish these data, or point us to the party that can, then people can decide if and what they wish to test for, in case they intend to check if and how much this wood preservative might be a matter of concern. Further, some of us are invited to speak at medical and gastronomic conferences, where such item is likely to be on the agenda, and any information your govt can provide would help.
2. Provide, and find us the party that can, a year upon year breakdown of how much of which kind of biocide has been used in BC, in forestry, as well as in agriculture, public and residential properties.
3. Comment on why BC has such a high percentage use of wood preservative, unlike any other province, and what the BC Govt might be doing to test their ground water, streams, wells and waterways, to see if ingredients of this wood preservative is not accumulating in the environment. Has anybody been testing the effect of this item in the environment? If “yes” is the investigation team outside of financial or other control of the industry that benefits from its use, and outside of control of the Government, where a scientist can be silenced, or fired, should his findings do not match Govt views for whatever reason?
4. Is your Govt in touch with ENKON Environmental Limited (mentioned in the quoted text from Environment Canada), and can you help connect us with the right party there for more information on pesticide use in BC?

In order to keep the public aware and raise awareness, I might publish this letter, for all to see, either in my blog, or Facebook, or twitter etc.

I shall be obliged to receive your response. Should you, or anyone representing the Govt is willing to speak with me on record on this issue, I shall be happy to listen and, if agreeable, record the conversation for creation of another audio podcast. If I receive a written response, I may then put that up for people as well.

Should you want to meet me face to face, I shall be happy to pay you a visit.

Either way, I request your Govt to furnish the information thus asked, which I believe may be the right of a citizen to know and the obligation of a Government to provide.

Hoping to get a quick response.

With best regards

Tony Mitra

10891 Cherry lane, Delta, BC, V4E3L7, Canada

604-649 7535, tony.mitra@gmail.com, www.tonu.org