Fwd: URGENT_Requesting Endorsement_ Letter to Editor_ Business Standard_Advertorial from CCFI (Cropcare Federation of India)
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Rohit Parakh
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From: Jatan Trust <jatan...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020, 12:14
Subject: URGENT_Requesting Endorsement_ Letter to Editor_ Business Standard_Advertorial from CCFI
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From: Jatan Trust <jatan...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020, 12:14
Subject: URGENT_Requesting Endorsement_ Letter to Editor_ Business Standard_Advertorial from CCFI
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Dear friends,
Greetings. Hope you are keeping well at this time of health crisis. We are writing to you on behalf of ASHA, with some urgency regarding the malicious attack made by the Pesticide industry association against several activists and scientists from eminent institutions who have exposed the harmful effects of pesticides. This was done through a full-page "Advertorial" in the Business Standard on July 29th, which is attached. Not only does it personally name and attack public interest activists like Kavitha Kuruganti, Sunita Narain and Umendra Dutt but it also attacks and maligns several scientists from institutions like NIN, IITKanpur, JNU, PHFI and many state universities. It also carries pictures of Kavitha Kuruganti and Dr.Rashmi Sanghi of IIT Kanpur, making the personal venom even more striking.
We are requesting you to sign on to the attached letter that we drafted. This is addressed to the Editor of Business Standard, opposes the publication of such an advertorial, rebuts key premises of its content, and demands action from the newspaper. This is also intended as a public statement which would be sent out to the media and put up on the internet, so that it counters the propaganda of the pesticide industry which is purchasing extensive media space with its deep pockets.
The larger context of this is the proposed ban on 27 pesticides by the Union government and the upcoming Pesticide Management Bill. On both these issues, ASHA has engaged very actively and many of you have already acted and raised voice. The pesticide industry is desperate to attack and malign people like Kavitha who is one of the persons at the forefront of this campaign, and sidetrack the core issue of the harmful effects of pesticides.
We view this as an attack on all of us working for ecological agriculture, pollution-free environment and responsible practice of science and research. We hope that you will endorse this letter and circulate it to others to obtain endorsements. All endorsements should be sent to asha.kis...@gmail.com with your Name, Location and Affiliation (if any), by August 2nd (Sunday).
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-- Greetings. Hope you are keeping well at this time of health crisis. We are writing to you on behalf of ASHA, with some urgency regarding the malicious attack made by the Pesticide industry association against several activists and scientists from eminent institutions who have exposed the harmful effects of pesticides. This was done through a full-page "Advertorial" in the Business Standard on July 29th, which is attached. Not only does it personally name and attack public interest activists like Kavitha Kuruganti, Sunita Narain and Umendra Dutt but it also attacks and maligns several scientists from institutions like NIN, IITKanpur, JNU, PHFI and many state universities. It also carries pictures of Kavitha Kuruganti and Dr.Rashmi Sanghi of IIT Kanpur, making the personal venom even more striking.
We are requesting you to sign on to the attached letter that we drafted. This is addressed to the Editor of Business Standard, opposes the publication of such an advertorial, rebuts key premises of its content, and demands action from the newspaper. This is also intended as a public statement which would be sent out to the media and put up on the internet, so that it counters the propaganda of the pesticide industry which is purchasing extensive media space with its deep pockets.
The larger context of this is the proposed ban on 27 pesticides by the Union government and the upcoming Pesticide Management Bill. On both these issues, ASHA has engaged very actively and many of you have already acted and raised voice. The pesticide industry is desperate to attack and malign people like Kavitha who is one of the persons at the forefront of this campaign, and sidetrack the core issue of the harmful effects of pesticides.
We view this as an attack on all of us working for ecological agriculture, pollution-free environment and responsible practice of science and research. We hope that you will endorse this letter and circulate it to others to obtain endorsements. All endorsements should be sent to asha.kis...@gmail.com with your Name, Location and Affiliation (if any), by August 2nd (Sunday).
With best regards,
KAPIL SHAH
Jatan: A Mission for Organic Farming,
Vinoba Ashram, Gotri, Vadodara: 390 021
Gujrat, India
Phone: +91(0)265-2371429
Fax: +91(0)265-2371880
Email: jatan...@gmail.com
Jatan: A Mission for Organic Farming,
Vinoba Ashram, Gotri, Vadodara: 390 021
Gujrat, India
Phone: +91(0)265-2371429
Fax: +91(0)265-2371880
Email: jatan...@gmail.com
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