Gilles-Éric Seralini - The Monsanto Papers: Corruption of Science and Grievous Harm to Public Health

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Copyright 2020 by Gilles-ric Seralini and Jrme Douzelet
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Contents

Foreword

Defending Our Food Supply, Our Health, Our Rights, but Also the Integrity of Science

Rachel Carsons Silent Spring (1962) awakened us to the dangers of pesticides. In the decades following its publication, regulations were put in place and scientific research evolved on the dangers to our health of pesticides, and, more recently, the biosafety of GMOs. I used to be a member of the United Nations committee of experts on biosecurity following article 19.3 of the Convention on Biosecurity. This is around the time when the attacks against science and scientists began.

In the decades that followed, the word sciencewhich comes from the Latin root scire, to knowhas seen its meaning eviscerated, stripped down to its bare bones, and reduced to nothingness. The pursuit of knowledge has been replaced by the discourse of the paragons of the defenders of science, their mouths lined with dollar bills. Their baseless knowledge, supposedly extracted from facts, has been wrongfully accepted as a panacea for the worlds very real population issues.

This book by Dr. Gilles-ric Seralini, a renowned scientist, researcher, and toxicologist, and Jrme Douzelet, a celebrated chef, gardener, and expert in Real Food, is a wake-up call to the dangers of the toxicities in our food. It is also a dire warning about the growing threat to public health and security, science and knowledge, freedom and democracy. Its what happens when propaganda replaces fact and when the Cartel of Toxics, led by Monsanto, now Bayer, begins to take control of our food supply, our public policy, our regulatory agencies, and the media.

Allowing toxics to dominate our food and our agricultural industries is effectively now supported by putting a stronghold on the very foundations of science and education.

We know these chemicals are toxic. We have come to recognize that the companies peddling pesticides deny their dangers in order to pursue their quest for profit to the detriment of life and health.

We need real science and scientists who have no ties to or interests in the food industry when we evaluate the effect of chemicals and GMOs on our food supply. It is nothing less than the very protection of our public health.

It is for these reasons that today more than ever, it has become a matter of life and death that we guarantee the independence of science, as well as the freedom and integrity of scientists.

It is an honor to pen the preface to this book. Dr. Gilles-ric Seralini is a brilliant researcher who succeeded in upholding the integrity of science in the face of Monsantos attacks. This book is a unique testimony for our times. In the end, it was proven that the accusations brought against him by Monsanto were fabricated, and that there was overwhelming proof of a link between Roundup and various types of cancer.

This important book chronicles the Toxic Cartels crimes and Dr. Seralinis dedication to preserving the honesty and independence of his research. It also awakens us to the very real necessity of protecting our knowledge, our health, and our freedom into the future against the giants of agrobusiness and their chemical toxins, and the titans of the pharmaceutical and technology industries. Indeed, taken together, they aim for a stronghold on our agriculture, our food, our public health, and our scientific community.

To me, science is a quest for truth, a search for models, and relations between things, especially in the realm of living things. It is an epistemic process, an open conversation, a dialog between nature and society in order to further knowledge through interconnectivity, integrity, discussion, debate, openness of mind, transparency, and accountability.

These are the reasons why I decided to become a scientist and physicist, and later, just as disasters were unfolding in Punjab and Bhopal, India, I went on to study the ecology of agriculture and food.

This is when I became aware of the fact that agriculture and all the life sciences had been co-opted by the Poison Cartel, which, after all, had first begun manufacturing deadly chemicals for use in Hitlers concentration camps. Lumped together under the name IG Farben, these companies worked side by side with US corporations during the war. Even as their armies fought one another, transatlantic industrial alliances were formed, such as the one between Standard Oil and IG Farben, or MoBay (Monsanto and Bayer) to research new ways to manufacture poisons initially designed to kill human beings.

The scientists and management at the Chemistry Cartel IG Farben were tried in Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. But despite the Nuremberg trial, the Poison Cartel persevered in its quest to manufacture deadly products. Once the war was over, chemical weapons became ingredients in agrochemical products. Industrial agriculture brought these into my own beloved country of India and beyond in the name of the Green Revolution.

My book The Violence of the Green Revolution is the result of the research I did further to the events of 1984 in Punjab. Monsanto, a chemical manufacturer well into the 1980s, had just cornered the market for GMO crops and the pesticides that go with them, such as Roundup. People wrongly associate Roundup with glyphosate alone, when in fact it contains other unlisted toxins as well. The GMOs have been bred to tolerate the pesticides, so they absorb them without dying. I launched the Navdanya movement to protect copyright-free crops and to further an agriculture free of these poisons.

Professor Seralinis research highlights the differences between glyphosate and Roundup, exposing the toxicity of this latter. Needless to say, it is the bestselling toxic product in the world, used on farms, in fields, on sports terrains, walkways, public parks, and on school grounds. Once the GMO that tolerated this herbicide (pesticide is a broad term that includes herbicides, as well as insecticides and fungicides) was introduced, its use skyrocketed, increasing around fifteen-fold, from 51 million kilos in 1995 to around 750 million kilos in 2014. In all, 8.6 billion kilos of glyphosate have been spread around since it was introduced in 1974.