Corrupt to the Core
By Dr. Shiv Chopra
Dr. Shiv Chopra’ s name has become synonymous with food safety. Dr. Chopra and some of his fellow scientists waged many battles over many years against a succession of Canadian federal ministries of health—theft employer.
With full support of The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada—a 50,000 member union of scientific and professional public service employees, Dr. Chopra and his colleagues refused to approve various harmful drugs to be used in meat and milk production. Despite the political pressures to do otherwise, and holding fast to sound science, they did better than the gambles that a series of prime ministers and health ministers played with public safety.
Time and again the federal courts supported Dr. Chopra and his fellow scientists and ruled against government attempts to shut them up. Also, time and again the government overruledDr. Shiv Chopra’ s name has become synonymous with food safety. Dr. Chopra and some of his fellow scientists waged many battles over many years against a succession of Canadian federal ministries of health—theft employer. With full support of The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada—a 50,000 member union of scientific and professional public service employees, Dr. Chopra and his colleagues refused to approve various harmful drugs to be used in meat and milk production. Despite the political pressures to do otherwise, and holding fast to sound science, they did better than the gambles that a series of prime ministers and health ministers played with public safety. Time and again the federal courts supported Dr. Chopra and his fellow scientists and ruled against government attempts to shut them up. Also, time and again the government overruled.
Here is the full account of how government corruption endangers the public food supply and how Dr. Chopra and his colleagues fearlessly continue to “to speak truth to power.” Here is also the story of how the elected representatives in both Canada and USA are more interested in protecting industrial profits and trade, instead of the public’s health. The stories told here for the first time include products like Revalor-H, Baytril, Bovine Growth Hormone, Silicon Breast Implants, and slaughterhouse waste to cause the biggest ruin of health safety—Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) or “mad-cow disease.”
ISBN 0-9731945-5-3
6" x 9" | 200 pages | PB | $30.00
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PRAISE FOR: Corrupt to the Core
“Shiv Chopra is a Canadian hero. He was guided by science to conclusions that were not politically convenient. I’m grateful that he was not deterred and continued to speak out. Do you think our governmental institutions keep our health and best interests as their uppermost priorities? Read this eye opening book for a shocking answer.”
—David Suzuki, Canadian environmentalist and geneticist
“Shiv Chopra is a hero. So are his five scientist colleagues who took on the powers at Health Canada’s food inspection bureau. My best memory of Shiv is sitting on a platform with him and Ralph Nader at a huge conference in Ottawa called “Science in the Public Good” when, after receiving our “Whistleblower of the Year” award, he announced to the audience that he would whistle blow “again and again and again” until the abuse stopped. Ralph Nader doubled over with laughter and declared that in all his years as a rabble-rouser, he had never heard anyone announce publicly, in advance, that they were going to blow the whistle.”
—Maude Barlow, Chair, Council of Canadians,
Recipient of the Swedish Right Livelihood Award
recipient of the Swedish Right Livelihood Award “The cancer of corporate corruption of science and safety regulations is becoming a major threat to the planet’s health and to public health. Dr. Shiv Chopra’s book describes a leading scientists’ witnessing of this corruption. His courageous writing provides a dose of resilience to all who care about the integrity of science, the independence of government regulations from corporate influence, and the freedom of citizens from hazardous food and medicines.”
—Vandana Shiva, Environmental activist in India,
recipient of the Swedish Right Livelihood Award
“As scientists and public citizens, both Dr. Shiv Chopra and I have fought for the freedom of science and government from corporate corruption … I have been privileged to have been, and to continue to be, his legal advisor in those areas. Dr. Chopra and his colleagues seek to uphold the law: the law that requires that drugs, which are allowed or maintained to be used by Health Canada,must meet the human safety requirements of the Food and Drugs Act and its Regulations. I admire his tenacity, his love for the law, his love for science …I am amazed that, in spite of all that has been thrown at him, he continues to pursue these issues without bitterness and with a determination …”
—David Yazbeck of Ottawa-based law firm
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