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harvested. Surely it is in the interests of all UK farmers to maintain high standards of integrity and trust in the food produced from our crops?

Those who continue to claim that scientists and governments are all wrong, and who claim glyphosate is safe, have two responses to the decision.

First, that we should ignore the World Health Organisation when they call glyphosate a probable carcinogen. For example, they claim that WHO put “hairdressing” in the same category as glyphosate, which is nonsense.

Actually the WHO condemned a powerful chemical that was once used by hairdressers, but is now banned.

Alternatively, bread companies say they check that glyphosate levels in their bread are below levels EU regulators say are safe.

Those “safe” levels were set years before the WHO decided glyphosate was more dangerous than previously thought: companies should not rely on them now.

And some scientists now say glyphosate is genotoxic, meaning it damages the genetic information within our cells, causing mutations.

Itis,however, to be hoped that the UK Government will see sense and negotiate with the Scottish Government over the holding of another referendum

Sir, - It seems it is not just in English politics that debates can get a bit personal, as Peter Stewart (July 27) made a number of unflattering remarks about me, simply because the Soil Association has passed on information about the recommendation from the elected European Parliament, agreed by the national governments of EU member states “to restrict the conditions of use of glyphosate” by reinforcing the “scrutiny of preharvest uses of glyphosate”.

I am not sure it helps the debate to suggest it is such an insult to farmers to repeat a decision reached by democratic governments.

The Soil Association has written to let bread companies and supermarkets know what national governments have decided, and has asked them if they will, ensure there is no glyphosate used on the wheat producing the flour they buy, by asking farmers not to spray glyphosate on crops just before they are

Picture: PA. Maze Master Tom Pearcy poses with Yorkshire puddings ahead of the Yorkshire Day annual Yorkshire Pudding tossing competition at York Maze.