{"id":20744,"date":"2016-05-18T20:36:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20744"},"modified":"2016-05-18T20:36:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T01:36:45","slug":"monsanto-and-the-poisoning-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20744","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe<\/a><\/h3>\n

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This week, a Standing Committee of plant scientists from 28 member states in Europe is likely to endorse the European Food Safety Authority\u2019s (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 \u201cprobably carcinogenic\u201d to humans.<\/p>\n

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 \u2018regulation\u2019 in Europe amount to little more than a \u201ccesspool of corruption<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 public\u2019s health and safety. However, what they too often get are\u00a0massive conflicts of interest: see\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0about the \u2018revolving door\u2019 problem within official EU bodies,\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0about \u2018the European Food and Safety Authority\u2019s independence problem\u2019 and\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0about \u2018chemical conflicts\u2019 in the EC\u2019s scientific committees for consumer issues.<\/p>\n

And they get governing bodies that are beholden to\u00a0massive corporate lobbying: see\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0about \u2018the fire power of the financial lobby\u2019 and\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0about \u2018who lobbies most\u2019 for TTIP, with agribusiness being the\u00a0biggest lobby group<\/a>\u00a0behing this secretive and corrupt trade deal that is attempting\u00a0drive a policy agenda<\/a>\u00a0above the heads of the European people and contrary to their wishes (see\u00a0this<\/a>\u00a0on TTIP as well).<\/p>\n

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Monsanto and the Poisoning of Europe NeydtStock\u00a0|\u00a0Shutterstock.com This week, a Standing Committee of plant scientists from 28 member states in Europe is likely to endorse the European Food Safety Authority\u2019s (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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13900,13901,281,2535,13902,4131,2516,878,10233],"class_list":["post-20744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-colin-todhunter","tag-efsa","tag-europe","tag-european-commission","tag-european-food-safety-authority","tag-monsanto","tag-pesticides","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20745,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20744\/revisions\/20745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}