Monthly Archives: December 2013

Harold Steves – and his battle to save British Columbia from GMO attack

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British Columbia, as much as all of Canada, needs a a few saviours that will stand tall, and fight long and hard, to save this land from the ravages brought on by mindless greed that brings toxicity into our food, our water, our air, and our lives, through GMO and its associated pesticide culture.

Harold Steves

And just like weeds and organisms are known to develop resistance to poison over time, some people seem to rise to challenge this newfangled toxic invasion in our lives.

Harold Steves of Richmond, BC is one such – a hero just in time, whose singular vision and effort may yet save British Columbian farmlands, as well as residents, from the ravages of GMO, and who efforts are being recognized and copied across the land, within and without British Columbia.

It is our hope, that Canada produces scores of Harold Steves across the land, and return Canada to what this country was decades ago, a land so beautiful and pure that it compared with our notions of Gods own land.

Apart from being an organic farmer that raises grass fed beef, Harold has been a city Councillor for Richmond, BC, continuously since 1977. His efforts to move the region against further encroachment of Genetically Engineered Organisms is an excellent example of how democracy can be taken back by the people, community by community, and municipality by municipality, from the clutches of Industrial greed, lobby power of the biotech corporations, and corrupt politicians.

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Shiv Chopra on how Corruption in Canadian Govt is spoiling our food

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Dr. Shiv Chopra compliments Dr. Thierry Vrain in the joint talk tour across Canada, alerting Canadians on how their food security and sovereignty may be compromised through corruption in the Government. Not willing to bow to corporate and miniterial pressure, he refused to accept the recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone from being approved by Health Canada bypassing safety checks and Canadian law on food safety. He paid for it by losing his job in Health Canada.

Now on a talk tour, he addresses a packed hall in Squamish on November 20, 2013 at the Sea to Sky Hotel, organized by many locals and hosted by Ms Kati Palethorpe.

Dr. Chopra explains five pillars of food safety – which are illegally into our food, each of which is harmful to health. These are :

  • Hormones
  • Antibiotics
  • Slaughterhouse waste recycled as animal feed
  • GMO
  • Pesticide.

All are used into the food cycle without independent testing. All are harmful to health. Europe, for example, bans or regulates at least four out of these five products. But Canada does not. As a result, Dr. Chopra argues, Canadian food has gotten to be among the most toxic in the entire planet. IF we can remove these ingredients, all food will be organic, and there would be no need for labelling.

Dr. Chopra with local volunteers and organizers

With the story of his struggle within Health Canada to protect Canada’s food and health, he often brought the house to thunderous applause, and Squamish was no different.

Not happy with only explaining how GMO is harming Canadian health, security and environment – he goes on to ask British Columbians what they are prepared to do about it – and how the people can snatch democracy back at the ground level from clutches of corporatocracy. Drawing examples of what Hudson, Quebec did twenty years ago, and what BC has done through UBCM more recently, he envisions a new dawn spearheaded by the people of the nation – to exert their divine and constitutional right – to feed themselves and their family with what nature makes. No corporation or Govt can force onto the people food that are considered harmful. And that is the reason Shiv Chopra started his second national pilgrimage from British Columbia.

Here we offer the video recording of his speech.

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We also have Thierry Vrain speaking to the crowd, presenting his “Gene Revolution“.

Gene Revolution – by Thierry Vrain

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Retired genetic engineer Dr. Thierry Vrain deconstructs the biotech myth that GMO plants :

  • reduce pesticide use
  • have no effect on environment
  • have improved yield
  • are safe to eat

One of a shrinking pool of scientists not yet muzzled by the Governments or the biotech scientific community, he shows how GMO technology is faulty to start with, and were not really designed to provide any benefit to mankind, and were basically produced to increase the sale of dangerous chemicals.

Drs Vrain and Chopra with local support group in Squamish, BC

Dr. Vrain and Health Canada scientist and scientist Dr. Shiv Chopra are on a cross country talking tour in Canada starting in November 2013 to alert the people about how the biotech industry is engaged in a campaign of misinformation, and their efforts are often helped by a corrupt political system in North America, where national regulatory systems fail to protect the people and allow what amounts to untested and potentially unhealthy foods to be marketed.

In this video, Dr. Vrain presents his case – Gene Revolution, a tale of two molecules, in the beautiful hill town of Squamish on November 20 at Sea to Sky Hotel. The event was organized by residents and health food promoters who wish to see Squamish declare itself GMO free.

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And here is Shiv Chopra – presenting his case about the Corruption in Health Canada and what people should be doing to snatch democracy back from the clutches of corporatocracy.