GMO Foods, “Biggest Fraud In The History Of Science” – Some ‘Questions’ For The UK’s Royal Society - TruePublica
GMO Foods, “Biggest Fraud In The History Of Science” – Some ‘Questions’ For The UK’s Royal Society
– The decision on whether to renew EU approval for the herbicide
glyphosate is to go to an appeals panel on 23 June after a last ditch
attempt to get a temporary re-authorisation failed on 6 June (for some
background information, see this).
It is unclear if the meeting will produce the majority vote needed to
pass the authorisation. The current licence for glyphosate in the EU
expires on 30 June.
In an ideal world, glyphosate would be taken off the commercial market due to its obvious adverse effects on human
health and the environment. In such a world, the EU would at the same
time be facilitating policies that would ensure a major shift towards
more sustainable agricultural practices.
In the world that we exist in, however, commercial and geopolitical interests trump
any notion of what is in the public interest, what is good for the
environment and strategies that could result in localised food
production systems to ensure food security, thriving communities, nutritious food, replenished soils and climate-friendly practices.
These interests have succeeded in rolling out a system of economic plunder and bad food and poor health across the planet. If the ordinary person were to engage in biopracy,
ecocide, the devastation of livelihoods and to knowingly poison the
environment and food, as these corporations have, they would face years
of incarceration.
Instead, we find these corporations securing privileged access to or control over institutions
and co-opting politicians, policy makers, scientists and regulators,
who sit on powerful bodies masquerading as ‘public servants’ or mouth
platitudes about serving humanity, while effectively serving the interests of their real constituents: the global agritech/agribusiness cartel.
Conflicts of interest: the EFSA and the Royal Society
In February 2016, campaigner Rosemary Mason wrote to Dr Bernhard Url,
Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), asking
him some serious questions about the independence of EFSA committees.
The letter comprised the fully-referenced document ‘Glyphosate causes cancer and birth defects. Humans are being poisoned by thousands of untested and unmeasured chemicals’.
Bernard Url failed to reply.
