Everything that people eat must be organically grown
the simplest way to do that is not to allow any of the following five substances from entering any food production:
- Hormones,
- Antibiotics
- Rendered Dead Animal Wastes
- GMOs
- Pesticides/Herbicides.
This is an excerpt from a longer article:
FIVE PILLARS OF FOOD SAFETY
The Insider Story of rBGH
NAVDANIA Address, New Delhi, India, October 1-2, 2008
By Shiv Chopra, B.V. Sc. & A.H., M.Sc., Ph.D.
http://shivchopra.com/?page_id=22
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In terms of food production Canada is the most blessed country on earth. With vast tracts of arable land, immense supply of fresh water and a very sophisticated farm population it could produce the healthiest and most abundant food supply. However, it does not. The food that Canada produces is considered internationally to be the most contaminated. While rBST was not allowed to be used in this country for dairy cows concoctions of various other hormones continue to be fed and injected to stimulate meat production in beef cattle and pigs. Furthermore, farm animals of every type are fed and injected many different antibiotics to increase meat production. In addition, almost all meat-producing animals are fed on diets containing dead animal wastes obtained from slaughterhouses. Finally, food crops which farm animals and people consume in Canada are grown from pesticide-dependent GMOs.
With some exceptions these products are not allowed to be utilized in any food-producing animals in E.U. countries whereas U.S. and Canadian governments hold a different view. Hormones, antibiotics and slaughterhouse wastes continue to be utilized in both these countries. As a result, litigations have been going on in the World Trade Organization where parties accuse each other of causing trade barriers without producing the necessary scientific evidence. However, the fact is that hormones used in beef stimulation have been shown to be complete carcinogens, meaning that they can initiate and promote cancer. Similarly, non-therapeutic uses of antibiotics to food-producing animals are not allowed in EU countries whereas in Canada and U.S. huge amounts of many different antibiotics continue to be used on Canadian and U.S. farms. Antibiotic use in farm animals is known to cause antimicrobial resistance in human pathogens, such as E. coli, Salmonella, VRE, MRSA, Campylobacter, Clostridium difficile and other organisms and because of which many of these organisms are no longer treatable with any known antibiotics. Slaughterhouse waste is also completely banned in E.U. countries whereas these materials continue to be fed back to food-producing animals, including cattle, pigs, poultry and fish, in Canada. The feeding of slaughterhouse wastes can cause Bovine Spongiform Disease (BSE) in cattle and meat consumption from thus infected cattle can cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) in people.
All these practices are described in my book. Titled: CORRUPT TO THE CORE: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower it is to be released as soon as I get back to Canada in the next couple of weeks. The point that I make in this book is that there is enough food for everyone to eat but, as Mahatma Gandhi said, it will never be enough to satisfy greed. For instance, according the Economist of August 2, 2008, the number of farmers in the U.S.A. is one million whereas in India it is two hundred million. Much of the food that those one million U.S. farmers produce is from pesticide dependent GMOs made by multinational corporations like Monsanto, DuPont, Pfizer, Syngenta, BASF and others. Now, the farmers are being enticed to turn food crops into producing the so called green fuel ethanol to cause road rage and climate change. The only solution to this madness is not to allow GMOs to produce any crops and cloned animals for food. Everything that people eat must be organically grown and the simplest way to do that is not to allow any of the following five substances from entering any food production:
- Hormones,
- Antibiotics
- Rendered Dead Animal Wastes
- GMOs
- Pesticides/Herbicides.
I refer to this approach to food production as the FIVE PILLARS OF FOOD SAFETY. In doing so, all food would automatically become organic. I feel that as the children of God and citizens of the world people must have the right to eat and feed their families the food that nature intended and not what GMO companies are forcing them to swallow. Finally, I would like to stress that small farmers of India and those of Canada are under similar pressures to yield their farms and livelihood to factory farming which must be resisted at all costs by the governments of both these countries. In doing so, they will help to save the health and livelihood of their citizens. If, on the other hands, any governments refuse to follow these principles of food safety people all over the world may need to resort to the type of salt march that Mahatma Gandhi undertook to bring the British Raj to its heels.
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