Comments on: The Ministry of Rice http://www.fifediet.co.uk/2009/05/23/the-ministry-of-rice/ leading thelocal food revolution Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:21:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andrew http://www.fifediet.co.uk/2009/05/23/the-ministry-of-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-286 Andrew Fri, 29 May 2009 14:24:09 +0000 http://fifediet.co.uk/?p=678#comment-286 This all sounds rather disgusting! I'm currently living in Japan and as far as I know they use pesticides on the rice crops. Well, that was my assumption anyway. Considering I eat rice every day now I think I best find out for sure. This all sounds rather disgusting! I’m currently living in Japan and as far as I know they use pesticides on the rice crops. Well, that was my assumption anyway. Considering I eat rice every day now I think I best find out for sure.

]]> By: fifediet http://www.fifediet.co.uk/2009/05/23/the-ministry-of-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-285 fifediet Mon, 25 May 2009 14:13:20 +0000 http://fifediet.co.uk/?p=678#comment-285 Thanks Sandra, here was me thinking it sounded fine. Thanks Sandra, here was me thinking it sounded fine.

]]> By: Sandra http://www.fifediet.co.uk/2009/05/23/the-ministry-of-rice/comment-page-1/#comment-284 Sandra Mon, 25 May 2009 08:10:09 +0000 http://fifediet.co.uk/?p=678#comment-284 A note on glufosinate. Bayer maintains glufosinate is a “great step forward” because it degrades rapidly and does not contaminate the water used for irrigation. People, however, don't eat soil or drink irrigation water, they eat the plants which have been sprayed with the herbicide. Glufosinate is an established 'high risk' to mammals, insects and wild plants (even outside the sprayed field), 'unsafe' for farmers at the concentrations handled (even when protective equipment is in use), an 'acute risk' for young children (at levels found in potatoes after the leafy part of the plant has been destroyed by glufosinate before harvesting), and a possible risk for the unborn child and for fertility. The US Environmental Protection Agency has reported glufosinate and its metabolites in all processed rice commodities. Glufosinate is not destroyed by boiling nor by cooking. Extract from Thoroughly illogical rice, GM-Free Scotland News, May 2009. http://www.gmfreescotland.org.uk/News/09may_thoroughlyillogicalrice.html A note on glufosinate.
Bayer maintains glufosinate is a “great step forward” because it degrades rapidly and does not contaminate the water used for irrigation. People, however, don’t eat soil or drink irrigation water, they eat the plants which have been sprayed with the herbicide. Glufosinate is an established ‘high risk’ to mammals, insects and wild plants (even outside the sprayed field), ‘unsafe’ for farmers at the concentrations handled (even when protective equipment is in use), an ‘acute risk’ for young children (at levels found in potatoes after the leafy part of the plant has been destroyed by glufosinate before harvesting), and a possible risk for the unborn child and for fertility. The US Environmental Protection Agency has reported glufosinate and its metabolites in all processed rice commodities. Glufosinate is not destroyed by boiling nor by cooking.

Extract from Thoroughly illogical rice, GM-Free Scotland News, May 2009.
http://www.gmfreescotland.org.uk/News/09may_thoroughlyillogicalrice.html

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