My book POISON FOODS OF NORTH AMERICA, with the data is now 7 years old. Things have not stayed static during this time. Usage of glyphosate has increased all across the planet. Science if now wholly a property of corporate agro-industry and big Pharma for profiteering. Public does not fund it and does guide it or own it.
You pay junk money for science, and you get junk science.
That is the sad story of the world today. Then on top of that we know have the cancel culture, woke culture supported by state approved misinformation and lies. Social media too has joined in. Night is projected as day and vice versa.
Back to my book.
The table below is from the book, with a breakup of the regions in Canada and how toxic the foods are on average in those regions – with respect to glyphosate, the 900 pound gorilla at out dinner table. The regions are chosen and categorized by CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) under Health Canada. And the data they sent me is shown as originating from those locations.
That indicates the west of Canada is the worst place to be in Canada when it comes to food. And since Canadian food is arguably slightly more toxic that US food, and together North American food (sans Mexico) produces the most toxic of foods in the entire planet, western Canada can be shown as the global epicentre of toxic foods.
But this story is slightly misleading. All the provinces of Canada west of Ontario has been lumped together in “west”. However, there is a great geographic, geologic, topographic and agricultural difference in the region when it comes to agriculture and usage of glyphosate. British Columbia stands out separate from the other “Western” provinces. It has various mountains ranges like the cascade mountains and the rocky mountains.. Agriculture is largely conducted in the river valley and not so much elsewhere. Also, large flatlands as mostly absent here. As a result giant farms of 20,000 or 30,000 acres under one controlling ownership engaging in industrial scale farming with huge input from industrial chemical is missing here.
But the same British Columbia is lumped with Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, or the so called prairies. These consist of massive flatlands that do engage is super scale industrial agriculture with massive doses of chemicals sprayed by air planes.
The prairies are the epicentre, the real ground zero of toxicity on planet earth.
And here is another table from the same book, with data that is seven ears old.
glyphosate in cereals
Started working on my book, modifying to a new version.
Going over the data on corn, I have given up on sweet corn from Canada, India and many other countries too. The data is 7 years old, but the use of glyphosate in increasing everywhere.
There is a need for more testing, but nobody is able to get their government to test foods for glyphosate. I am going to be asking Indian organizations to firstly increase lobbying to test food for glyphosate and also consider starting a movement towards that, and lastly, to start testing small sample os food for glyphosate by different groups and collate the data.
When this book was published, data on Canadian corn was better than the US corn. But i suspect the use of glyphosate in Canadian corn has increased, It tasted bad, and the quality was degraded. I have been the only exception getting Canada to do the extensive testing. But that data is 7 odd years old.
Private testing needs a lot of money. I am retired, so cannot afford large sample testing, but I can test one of two samples in Canada. Anybody wants to join me?
Anyway, my focus of now on India as I am scheduled to visit there in winter, and because the book if due to be revised.
Attached table from my book – Poison Foods and North America.
Note, data on Oats was missing on the original book and will be added in the revision. Reading are shocking – The MRL levels are these are 35,000 parts per billion, far more than any other cereal I can find. I know health Canada increases the safety limit of glyphosate on specific foods not because it has found evidence of no hard dome to the living world though increase dose of glyphosate but rather, because the old safe limit has already been crossed per the lasted acquired data. 35,000 PPB – Jesus. H. Chist. Thankfully, I don’t eat oats. I suspect most of it is goes in animal feed. Poor animals cannot complain when they get cancer in middle age.
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