NEWS BITES

Help outlaw cosmetic animal testing and trade

• At the beginning of the year, the #BeCrueltyFree Canada team introduced the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act. Help this bill become law and sign the petition at www.hsi.org Select Canada as your country and then type Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act Petition in the search bar.

This bill would make it illegal to test cosmetic products or ingredients on animals in Canadian labs and also ban the sale of beauty products newly tested on animals anywhere in the world.

Ask your Member of Parliament to support the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act (S-214) by signing and sharing the petition.

With your help, HSI has been giving the beauty industry a cruelty-free makeover in Europe, India, New Zealand and South Korea. Now it’s Canada’s turn and this progressive bill brings us one step closer to achieving a world where no animal has to suffer and die for the sake of cosmetics.

Add your name today to make an even bigger impact. Together, we can make Canada the next country to #BeCrueltyFree!

Source: HSI Canada (Humane Society International/Canada), www.hsi.org

Testing reveals glyphosate in popular breakfast foods

In April, the Alliance for Natural Health-USA (ANH-USA) released the results of food safety testing conducted on popular breakfast foods. Testing revealed the presence of glyphosate – the most widely used agricultural herbicide and the primary ingredient in the popular herbicide Round Up – in 11 of the 24 food samples tested.

Glyphosate is an herbicide developed in 1970 by Monsanto, which began developing GMO crops designed to withstand high doses of Roundup. Today, these seeds account for 94% of all soybeans and 89% of all corn being produced, meaning that hundreds of millions of pounds of glyphosate are dumped onto the land every year.

“We decided to do this testing to see just how ubiquitous this toxin has become in our environment. We expected that trace amounts would show up in foods containing large amounts of corn and soy,” explained Gretchen DuBeau, executive and legal director of ANH-USA. “However, we were unprepared for just how invasive this poison has been to our entire food chain.”

This poison was recently named a probable carcinogen, or cancer-causing agent, by the World Health Organization. Glyphosate was found in oatmeal, bagels, eggs – including the organic variety – potatoes and even non-GMO soy coffee creamer.

“Glyphosate has been linked to increases in levels of breast, thyroid, kidney, pancreatic, liver and bladder cancers and is being served for breakfast, lunch and dinner around the world,” said DuBeau. “The fact that it is showing up in foods like eggs and coffee creamer, which don’t directly contact the herbicide, shows that it’s being passed on by animals who ingest it in their feed. This is contrary to everything that regulators and industry scientists have been telling the public.”

The true safety of this chemical is unknown. Evidence linking glyphosate with the increased incidence of a host of cancers is reason for immediate reevaluation by the EPA and FDA.

See the full results of the study at www.anh-usa.org Search for breakfast study. View a video related to the study at: www.anh-usa.org/glyphosate-for-breakfast

Source: Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA), www.anh-usa.org

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