Open Letter to the Director General of the BBC and the former Defra (Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs) Minister Lord de Mauley
Lord Hall & Lord de Mauley: Monsanto’s own long term studies in rats in 1990 showed an increased risk of cataracts following exposure to Roundup: why are you protecting Monsanto?
Annual rates of admission for cataract surgery in England rose 10′fold from 1968 to 2003. A 2016 study by the WHO: ‘A global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks’ says that cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Anthony Samsel is the US scientist who obtained Monsanto’s early studies under FOI from the US EPA which showed that Monsanto (and the US EPA)knew that glyphosate caused cancer but concealed it. He said: ‘Forty years of glyphosate exposure have provided a living laboratory where humans are the guinea pigs.’
Lord Hall: BBC Farming Today 18 March 2016: President of Monsanto Brett Begemann was interviewed. Why was Prof Christopher Portier not asked to speak on behalf of IARC?
Asked by the interviewer about whether glyphosate was carcinogenic, the President dismissed as nonsense the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) statement that glyphosate is probably carcinogenic in humans. He said: ‘I trust the science.’ Why did the BBC not reveal the massive dispute between IARC and some MEPs who rebelled and asked for FOIs, and the German Rapporteur Member State BfR and EFSA’s risk assessment of glyphosate?
This post was published at FarmWars on April 17, 2016.
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