Nationwide Glyphosate Testing

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nationwide-glyphosate-testing
[Indiegog – This campaign ended on July 11, 2014]

Citizen Direct Testing of Toxins in Environment

Health Canada or Environment Canada has not done mass test on how much of Monsanto’s Roundup has gotten into human body fluids, nor has it set up labs that can do this test:

• Federal Govt does not respond to our letters (http://www.tonu.org/2014/05/29/atamanenko/).
• In Canada, only water and soil can now be tested, for closer to 300 dollars a test – quite out of reach of citizens.
• No Canadian lab is able to test if people have glyphosate in themselves, through samples of blood, urine or breast milk from nursing mothers.
• Labs in the US were testing for glyphosate at costs above $100 for human body fluids.
• We are looking for labs that may agree to batch processing at a reasonable cost.
• There are some financially challenged that cannot afford that money, and are eating unhealthy food suspected laced with Glyphosate, which is practically in every food that is not organic.
• This funding is to help them to test their urine and breast milk for nursing mothers.
• Walmart, Safeway and other food stores do not respond when we asked about testing their food to check if Glyphosate is present in their food. So this funding is to test their random sample of food.

Silencing the Scientist: Tyrone Hayes on Being Targeted By Herbicide Firm Syngenta

Published on Feb 21, 2014
http://www.democracynow.org

We speak with a University of California scientist Tyrone Hayes, who discovered a widely used herbicide may have harmful effects on the endocrine system. But when he tried to publish the results, the chemical’s manufacturer launched a campaign to discredit his work. Hayes was first hired in 1997 by a company, which later became agribusiness giant Syngenta, to study their product, Atrazine, a pesticide that is applied to more than half the corn crops in the United States, and widely used on golf courses and Christmas tree farms. When Hayes found results Syngenta did not expect — that Atrazine causes sexual abnormalities in frogs, and could cause the same problems for humans — it refused to allow him to publish his findings. A new article in The New Yorker magazine uses court documents from a class-action lawsuit against Syngenta to show how it sought to smear Hayes’ reputation and prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from banning the profitable chemical, which is already banned by the European Union.