Lawsuit accuses Monsanto of manipulating research to hide Roundup dangers

[Disir]

Ok, just the important parts without taking the whole thing:

Mendoza is one of hundreds of people around the country suing Monsanto, Roundup’s parent company. Their lawyers cite a 2015 World Health Organization study that says glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic” and damages DNA in human cells.

“There is no data indicating that we should change any recommendations on how this product should be used. Glyphosate, the data is clear, doesn’t cause cancer,” Farmer said then.

But now, the data is in question.

Newly released court documents in a federal lawsuit suggest Monsanto planned to ghostwrite a positive report on glyphosate and get experts to back it up.

An scientist wrote in an email “...we would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names.”
Lawsuit accuses Monsanto of manipulating research to hide Roundup dangers

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto's Roundup allegedly bragged to a company executive that he deserved a medal if he could kill another agency's investigation into the herbicide's key chemical.

The boast was made during an April 2015 phone conversation, according to farmers and others who say they've been sickened by the weed killer.

After leaving his job as a manager in the EPA's pesticide division last year, Jess Rowland has become a central figure in more than 20 lawsuits in the US accusing the company of failing to warn consumers and regulators of the risk that its glyphosate-based herbicide can cause non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

"If I can kill this I should get a medal," Rowland told a Monsanto regulatory affairs manager who recounted the conversation in an email to his colleagues, according to a court filing made public on Tuesday (Wednesday NZ Time).
EPA official accused of helping Monsanto 'kill' cancer study surrounding Roundup

 

[The Irish Ram]

There seems to be an epidemic of infertility in this country, and I have wondered if it is because of what they are doing to our food. Monsanto is altering seeds. They have made their seeds immune to their herbicide, so they spray the whole field with chemicals, and the only thing it doesn't kill are the modified seeds. Are they putting the chemicals directly into the seed so it builds up an immunity to the herbicide when it is used?

And this is how rotten to the core they are. They spray their fields close to a neighbor's field and let spray waft over the fence line. When everything on the neighbor's land dies, Monsanto takes a sample of the neighbor's soil to court with them and accuse the neighbor of stealing their product. And they are ending up with the neighbor's farms. Only Monsanto altered seeds will grow in the contaminated soil that used to be a farmer's home and livelihood.
And our government loves them.

 

[RodISHI]

There seems to be an epidemic of infertility in this country, and I have wondered if it is because of what they are doing to our food. Monsanto is altering seeds. They have made their seeds immune to their herbicide, so they spray the whole field with chemicals, and the only thing it doesn't kill are the modified seeds. Are they putting the chemicals directly into the seed so it builds up an immunity to the herbicide when it is used?

And this is how rotten to the core they are. They spray their fields close to a neighbor's field and let spray waft over the fence line. When everything on the neighbor's land dies, Monsanto takes a sample of the neighbor's soil to court with them and accuse the neighbor of stealing their product. And they are ending up with the neighbor's farms. Only Monsanto altered seeds will grow in the contaminated soil that used to be a farmer's home and livelihood.
And our government loves them.

It is a combination of various chemical applications being widely used that change or alter hormones.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

There seems to be an epidemic of infertility in this country, and I have wondered if it is because of what they are doing to our food. Monsanto is altering seeds. They have made their seeds immune to their herbicide, so they spray the whole field with chemicals, and the only thing it doesn't kill are the modified seeds. Are they putting the chemicals directly into the seed so it builds up an immunity to the herbicide when it is used?

And this is how rotten to the core they are. They spray their fields close to a neighbor's field and let spray waft over the fence line. When everything on the neighbor's land dies, Monsanto takes a sample of the neighbor's soil to court with them and accuse the neighbor of stealing their product. And they are ending up with the neighbor's farms. Only Monsanto altered seeds will grow in the contaminated soil that used to be a farmer's home and livelihood.
And our government loves them.

Of course our government loves them. Monsanto funds both sides of politics, so they win either way. But there is also a revolving door between government & Monsanto. Many of their top executives have come to work for the government in the FDA & USDA & other offices....and that's only the beginning.