(Support Free Thought) – On Friday, a landmark case against Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller concluded in San Francisco in which a jury awarded $289 million in damages to a former school groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, concluding that Roundup gave him terminal cancer.
Naturally, Monsanto announced that they are going to appeal this case. However, what this case illustrates is a massive shift in the tide against the chemical behemoth. Had Johnson attempted this lawsuit just three years ago, he would’ve likely been laughed out of the courtroom.
Thanks to the relentless independent investigations and independent media, however, this is all changing.
If you get all of your news from mainstream media and cable TV infotainment, then you’re probably unaware that glyphosate (the active ingredient in RoundUp herbicide) has been linked to cancer. The World Health Organization stated in March of 2015 that glyphosate is a probable carcinogen, and California labels it as such.
However, the mainstream media chose not to heavily report this information. Thanks to those of us in the alternative and independent media, however, this information got out. Groups like March Against Monsanto played a key role in presenting this information to the masses, organizing events and pushing to break through the mainstream narrative.
The MSM addict will also be unaware that long-term exposure to glyphosate—even tiny amounts deemed “safe” by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—can lead to liver and kidney damage.
This information has been widely disseminated in Europe whose government leaders are less beholden to companies like Roundup.
The “safe” level of glyphosate for U.S. drinking water was set at 0.7 ug/L in 1994, and this has not been revised, despite studies over the years showing glyphosate’s toxicity. For comparison, the European Union’s safe glyphosate level for drinking water is 0.1 ug/L.
Several countries have banned or restricted the herbicide’s use, and other leading nations are considering legislative bans.
Nowhere is glyphosate more prevalent than in the U.S., which uses 20% of the world’s RoundUp, or more than 280 million pounds per year. These incredible figures have to do with the fact that Monsanto’s GMO “RoundUp Ready” brands now comprise most of the corn and soybean crops grown in the U.S. This has brought staggering profits to the multinational corporation that now controls vast swaths of the global food supply.
As more research is carried out, we are finding that glyphosate is far more toxic than its maker Monsanto, along with corrupted federal agencies, have led us to believe.
What’s more, this grand deception has been confirmed.
Forty years ago the biotech giant began its own research on glyphosate, and these studies were unearthed in 2015. The documents reveal that Monsanto always knew about the human health hazards of glyphosate.
“There is now an enormous cache of evidence on both scientific and legal grounds that Monsanto in fact conducted numerous studies in the 1970s and 1980s on glyphosate’s toxicity and health risks and intentionally sealed this research from independent and public review and scrutiny.”
Equally astonishing is the fact that this body of research was given to EPA, who hid it from the public at Monsanto’s demand on the basis of proprietary trade secrets. . .
Source: The Landmark Monsanto Verdict May Not Have Been Possible Without Activism and Alternative Media
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Good news, but it can be made better with quick loss of Monsanto’s appeal and writing and depositing of check check to Mr. Dewayne Johnson’s account. We need MUCH MORE good news concerning Monsanto in many other cases, farmers losing their farms because of Monsanto’s unwelcome crop invasion being one of them.
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Excellent points, marblenecltr. We all need to keep fighting.
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“The Landmark Monsanto Verdict May Not Have Been Possible Without Activism and Alternative Media”
All I can say to that is, “So very true!” Because if we look to MSM, we’ll only be spoon-fed lies and propaganda and the serious issues that are impacting us all will never be aired because corporations are not going to drag other corporations through the mud. And our politicians don’t give a shit for U.S. and this we should ALL know by now, hence alternative media to the rescue, along with activists. But we cannot relax because we must remain ever vigilant and keep at it!
Thanks for posting this Dr. Bramhall. You certainly do YOUR part!
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You can certainly say that again, Shelby. Our politicians definitely don’t give a shit for us. Under capitalism, we only have rights if we continually fight for them.
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See also:
„Monsanto and Bayer: A Long Intertwined History Between US Capital and German Capital – Who´ll eat Whom?“ https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/monsanto-and-bayer-a-long-intertwined-history-between-us-capital-and-german-capital-wholl-eat-whom/
Sunday regards
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Thanks for the link, Schluter. Clearly Monsanto was struggling financially or they wouldn’t need to be bought out.
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Reblogged this on Worldtruth.
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I hope the man gets his check soon! Now lets go after clorpyrifos nerve gas used as an inaecticide! BY monasnto. LETS ALSO AGO AFTER asbestos. It is only made in Russia now Wound’nt ya know it Trump is allowing that everywhere in Murica again, in everything!I saw something before, on here about asbestos. Trump dregulated it. Everyone knows, how carcinogenic it is! Few acknowledge its radioactivity.
One here from 2009
Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci. 2009;85(7):229-39.
Accumulation of radium in ferruginous protein bodies formed in lung tissue: association of resulting radiation hotspots with malignant mesothelioma and other malignancies.
Nakamura E1, Makishima A, Hagino K, Okabe K.
Author information
Abstract
While exposure to fibers and particles has been proposed to be associated with several different lung malignancies including mesothelioma, the mechanism for the carcinogenesis is not fully understood. Along with mineralogical observation, we have analyzed forty-four major and trace elements in extracted asbestos bodies (fibers and proteins attached to them) with coexisting fiber-free ferruginous protein bodies from extirpative lungs of individuals with malignant mesothelioma. These observations together with patients’ characteristics suggest that inhaled iron-rich asbestos fibers and dust particles, and excess iron deposited by continuous cigarette smoking would induce ferruginous protein body formation resulting in ferritin aggregates in lung tissue. Chemical analysis of ferruginous protein bodies extracted from lung tissues reveals anomalously high concentrations of radioactive radium, reaching millions of times higher concentration than that of seawater. Continuous and prolonged internal exposure to hotspot ionizing radiation from radium and its daughter nuclides could cause strong and frequent DNA damage in lung tissue, initiate different types of tumour cells, including malignant mesothelioma cells, and may cause cancers.
PMID:
19644223
PMCID:
PMC3561846
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19644223
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Thanks for letting us know about the clorpyrifos, Nick. To be honest I never heard about it before. I was also unaware that asbestos emitted alpha particles until a commenter mentioned it on another post. I heard on the radio somewhere that there is a bill in Congress to require chemicals to be proven safe before they’re released into the environment (similar to the one Dupont killed decades ago). I don’t suppose you know any more details, do you?
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Monsanto is ivolved with many of the worst poisons. Even before their GMO shenannigans they had about a third of all US farmers, so far in debt to them for fertilizers and the worst pesticides, that they were on the verge of bankrupcy. Many ponds and lakes in the midwest, reek so badly of pesticides, you get nauseated driving by them. The organophosphates are direct derivitives of the nerve gas serin, and easily as chronically toxic. They covalently bond to tissue like chemotherapy does. They cayse parkinsons disease. It is bad. It all pales in comparison to asbestos and other radionuclides, though.
http://mauiindependent.org/monsanto-failed-stop-hawaii-legislature-banning-chlorpyrifos/
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There will ne no bills heard bill in Congress to require chemicals to be proven safe before they’re released into the environment. Not being trite, but are you kidding? This is the age of trump and republican fascism. Russia has the largest and, one of the only asbestos mines left in the world. It is all an illusion. As Trump, prepares to bomb iran it and the republicans, are making trillions on insider trding on the helterskelter tariffs that only make sense, to wall street crooks . They will make trillions from kickbacks from russi for buying there asbestos, so that millions of americans can die horrible mesothelioma deaths.
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I looked into it Nick and the bill I mentioned actually cleared Congress with bipartisan support prior to the 2016 election – Obama signed it into law. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/us-chemical-regulations-finally-updated/1010188.article
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Yes but trump is destroying it
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My impression is that that the 2016 law forces the chemical industry to fight EPA regulation chemical by chemical – which means EPA scientists still have broad leeway in regulating other chemicals. They have a really strong union, and I don’t think they’re going to give up without a fight.
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