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The Pest Management Regulatory Agency is proposing to double, triple, or almost quadruple the allowable glyphosate-based herbicides (Roundup®) in oats, bran, nuts, and beans.
You have only until July 20 to say NO!
These proposals would:
- Increase the herbicide contamination on nuts and legumes conventionally grown in Canada or imported.
- Increase the risk for human and animal illness, including bees.
- Contaminate the soil with increased mycotoxins (moulds) that can affect other crops like wheat.
Action To Take
Tell the PMRA what you think of PMRL2021-10.
Email your comments to hc.pmra.publications-arla.sc@canada.ca, or comment online, on “Proposed measures” for PMRL2021-10.
You have only until July 20 to say NO!
Talking Points
- Glyphosate depletes the beneficial human gut bacteria and is associated with inflammatory bowel disease and increasing rates of bowel cancer.
Samsel A, Seneff S. Glyphosate, pathways to modern diseases VI: prions, amyloidoses and autoimmune neurological diseases. Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry. 2017;17:8-32
- The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen, particularly associated with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK436774/
- Glyphosate-based herbicides potentially affect bee microbes and contribute to decline of bee populations.
- Many common breakfast cereals already test higher than the 1993 Environmental Protection Agency limits.
For more information and analysis: https://safefoodmatters.org/2021/07/10/health-canada-wants-to-increase-glyphosate-in-food/ 23 page response by Denis Rancourt, Researcher, Ontario Civil Liberties Association, with citations: https://archive.org/details/2021-07-dgr-comments-to-health-canada-re-glyphosate-4
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To increase pesticides is so harmful to human health. It destroys the natural balance of bacteria in the gut. So wrong to do this, it increases diseases such as cancer.