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To: CEO Tesco

Stop the use of Glyphosate as a pre harvest dessicant - Health Matters more than profit!

Please tell farmers to stop using glyphosate as a pre harvest dessicant and refuse to buy flour bread wheat soy barley rape containing products that have been treated with glyphosate as a pre harvest dessicant.

Why is this important?

Please accept the advice from the soil association and other word leading scientists that glyphosate is harmful to health when ingested in any quantities and the use of it as a pre harvest dessicant has been shown to cause high levels of glyphosate in the grain and humans who consume wheat soya barley based products show significant levels of glyphosate in their urine. It is a WHO suspected carcinogen a hormone disruptor damages the gut biome and may contribute to auto immune disease.
The EU has refused a full license and given only a short temporary approval to glyphosate and deprecates it's use as a dessicant.

My wife and I both have developed auto immune diseases and we both were exposed to glyphosate spray mist directly and in our food through no choice of our own as it is almost impossible to buy glyphosate free produce.

Products that may contain glyphosate from pre harvest desiccation include flour, bread, sauces ,pizza, pastry, beer, soy sauce, biscuits, any meals using wheat as a thickener (most do) etc ...

https://www.farminguk.com/news/Soil-Association-writes-to-major-bread-companies-asking-them-to-avoid-glyphosate_42519.html

How it will be delivered

By letter to the CEO of Tesco with media awareness of the action.

Updates

2016-08-18 01:09:07 +0100

100 signatures reached

2016-08-05 16:20:13 +0100

Yet more evidence of the damage pesticides do to the immune system and lungs http://www.news-medical.net/news/20160803/Common-pesticides-linked-to-allergic-and-non-allergic-wheeze-among-farmers.aspx

2016-08-04 17:11:24 +0100

50 signatures reached

2016-08-02 14:35:27 +0100

25 signatures reached

2016-07-30 13:47:05 +0100

10 signatures reached