Niehaus a girl is with us the senior campaigner with Food and Agriculture
for Greenpeace India Greenpeace .org is the website
live from Mumbai knee-high welcome to the program
hi how are you thanks I am I am well thank you it does so much for joining us
and for this a
a brilliant AST the report this
this study you know trouble brewing I have to say I have
never been a fan of coffee but I am a fan of caffeine and so for years and
years
insider drinking coffee I've dry I have drink chai
I you know tea with spices in it on the idea that it might be poison me is
rather spooky
tell us about that like
so I mean I won't you just mentioned that you love child cause I was Indians
love
fairchild and so Greenpeace India decided to actually
you need to use P and you know one of the cops it's obviously an iconic
a cop for India and so we took on a study to
job is to keep test pesticide residues impeach
and what we did is that we took forty nine samples
eating p plans in India and be tested them for over 350 pesticides
I'm 10 nothing said we did find
is I'm good results with orders concerning because we did find
I want you know of a lot better pesticide let's do the more than you
know fifty percent of the samples to be tested for
and more than 64 percent
that pesticides that what you will in the sample
well actually I'm told for I'll
for cultivation impeach I mean one of the main message is obviously such was
that I'm
AT&T cultivation is still are stuck in a pesticide treadmill
mmm and and is this unregulated in India
I'm so I'm dead and
regulation basically we have the potential insecticide born to an AT&T
for din Safety Standards Authority
does regulate pesticide NP like not the cops but Thomas one of the biggest
issues is the loopholes in the regulation
which is you know why we found unapproved
pesticides are in the peace sample %uh and
to what extent is the chai that's making its way to the United States
from Andy I know a lot of our spices are imported from India
I and night and I've 5 botch I that I know
was says made in Indiana to what extent is the chai that we buy in the United
States
thereby be made in India contaminated with pesticides so I'm
our study was aimed at domestic consumption
so we actually didn't best for pesticides in the export market
but want me on messenger the lower I
campaign is that you know you shouldn't stop inhumane
chai because there's obviously the usual and there is
upon the Wii out I'll yeah you know that the whole pesticide
said no the beach be industrious stock and but I we didn't do a study for
export markets if i if i bi chai that is labeled organic MIA
far more likely to be getting something that is best if outside free
army I I would say yes but one of the things the Greenpeace India is promoting
because we don't think that's why
yes organic cultivation is a good step forward
we actually believe that you don't safety and the like that every child
think I M
we are promoting ecological approach rather than just
are you not certified organic approach but to answer your question I think if
you do buy organic fee then
you know yes feed the likelihood of having pesticides and watch I is much
less
right so Greenpeace in India is is
I making chai are growing T as
a a what is a as a fundraiser or to help a local community here
well wait tell me what's going on here so I'm
green beans does not draw p ok but what really has for which I need to do is
raise awareness about
you not be the fresh that the photos I the agricultural system
now that I love me that %uh farming in stock in and one of the biggest issued
is be
pesticide said no that %uh entire up
our system in stock in the S&P is because one of the top
that store to follow that so we don't want people to leave the awareness of
the fact that
I will get a we don't have an opportunity yet to become a real
a global leader in gum defeat by you're going to work specified
creepy right okay very good arm
anything you'd like to add anything we should know about this what can people
do too
to help out with the work that you're doing there in India so whenever I one
of the things that we are doing is that we're asking P companies I mean
some of you know someone international brands like Unilever
and twice are to actually clean China now which is basically come up with the
roadmap to
I'm no to feed I would be from pesticides to have called up people its
link in all 50
get online and sign on to the petition and a mom their favorite p plans to
change I
and thats or a Greenpeace .org
i right that's right that that is great
I a Nahar seagal
thank you so much for dropping by today its been great talking with all right
thank you thank you for the wonderful work you're doing and and that
Greenpeace does all over the world
we need to have the right thing pretty much thank you so much for being with us