Toban Dyck: A recent CBC segment on the active ingredient in Roundup oversimplified a complex topic and amounted to fear-mongering
Caring about food, where it comes from, how it’s produced and what’s in it is proving to be as superficial as any other trend.
Coverage of agricultural issues needs to keep up. Many media outlets need to do better, if they want to be the gatekeepers for the distribution of food and food production-related information. The segment opened with an archived cigarette commercial assuring people that smoking poses no risk to your health.
“They’re continuing to bury their head in the sand and actually look at the science,” U.S. Attorney R. Brent Wisner told Mesley. Wisner is the co-lead counsel for the Roundup JCCP, which consists of more than 150 California-based lawsuits connecting the Monsanto product to non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Not one farmer was interviewed, and Health Canada’s position was only mentioned a couple of times. The overall effect left viewers with only one conclusion to draw — one that runs contrary to Health Canada’s own findings.
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