Monsanto

French Court Finds Monsanto Guilty Of Chemical Poisoning

April 14, 2019 Eat Local Grown. Resist! Food and Agriculture, Food Safety, health, Monsanto

In appeals court in Lyon, France has upheld a 2012 ruling against Monsanto, in which the agribusiness giant was found guilty of the chemical poisoning a farmer named Paul François. The grain grower said that in 2004 he became ill due to Monsanto’s weedkiller, Lasso. François claimed he suffered from neurological problems, memory loss, headaches and stammering after inadvertently inhaling the herbicide. In François’ case, doctors determined the cause of his ill health was monochlorobenzene, a highly toxic substance that made up 50 percent of Monsanto’s herbicide, according to teleSUR.

Monsanto Ordered To Pay $80 Million In Roundup Cancer Trial

March 29, 2019 Staff, Afp.com Resist! Cancer, Monsanto, Roundup

Monsanto has been ordered to pay some $80 million to an American retiree who blames his cancer on the agribusiness giant's weedkiller Roundup, in a case that could influence the outcome of thousands more like it. A San Francisco jury Wednesday found the firm, which is owned by Bayer, had been "negligent by not using reasonable care" to warn of the risks of its product, ordering it to pay Edwin Hardeman $75 million in punitive damages, a little over $5 million in compensation and $200,000 for medical expenses.

Exxon Could Be Next US Corporation To Face EU Lobby Ban

March 24, 2019 Eoin Higgins, Commondreams. Educate! European Union (EU), Lobbying, Monsanto, Oil and Gas

ExxonMobil could soon join Monsanto as one of the only two companies not allowed to lobby European Union lawmakers. The oil giant, one of the world's largest energy companies, was a no-show at a climate change denial hearing in Brussels Thursday, prompting the action. In a statement, ExxonMobil said that it was unable to attend because of "ongoing climate change-related litigation in the U.S." That wasn't good enough for Molly Scott Cato, a Green Party member of the European Parliament. In a statement, Green said a company which had spent millions on climate denial and then ducked responsibility for its actions didn't deserve the right to promote itself in the EU.

The Politics Of Pesticides: Monsanto Under Fire

March 22, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast health, Imperialism, Monsanto, Pesticides

Through a series of mergers, pesticide companies are consolidating, taking over seed companies and pushing genetically-engineered foods. Companies such as Monsanto, now merged with Bayer, and Dow and Dupont, which have merged, are chemical companies with a long history of producing toxic chemicals, including chemical weapons used in warfare. We speak with Mitchel Cohen and Robin Esser, authors of "The fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup: The Politics of Pesticides," who spoke about the corruption and health impacts of pesticides as well as the connections to imperialism and colonialism.

‘Doesn’t Care’

March 15, 2019 Staff, Organicconsumers.org Resist! Monsanto, Roundup, Toxic Chemicals

In a ruling last week, Judge Vince Chhabria wrote:. . . there is strong evidence from which a jury could conclude that Monsanto does not particularly care whether its product is in fact giving people cancer, focusing instead on manipulating public opinion and undermining anyone who raises genuine and legitimate concerns about the issue. On March 12, both sides in the Edwin Hardeman vs. Monsanto case delivered closing arguments in San Francisco Federal Court. The jury could return its verdict any day now.

Judge In Monsanto Roundup Trial Is Already Hindering Testimony

February 27, 2019 Robert Howard, Truthout.org Resist! Chemicals, Courts, Monsanto

Anyone concerned about probable carcinogens in the environment needs to keep an eye on the trial of Edward Hardeman v. Monsanto Company, which begins on February 25, in the Federal District Court in San Francisco. A bellwether for future challenges against the company, the federal court has grouped hundreds of plaintiffs into this multidistrict litigation case. The plaintiffs have sued Monsanto claiming to have contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) after being exposed to Roundup, the company’s glyphosate-based herbicide.

GM Crops, Pesticides, Corporate Duplicity

January 13, 2019 Colin Todhunter, Global Research. Educate! Bayer, Corporatism, Monsanto, Transparency

Tireless campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to Werner Baumann, the chief executive of Bayer CropScience. It is in direct response to Bayer CropScience’s advertisement that was placed in Politico and the Farmers’ Guardian on 19/12/2018 which reads: “Transparency creates trust. At Bayer, we embrace our responsibility to communicate how we assess our products’ safety — and we recognize that people around the world want more information around glyphosate. This month, we published more than 300 study summaries on the safety of glyphosate on our dedicated transparency website. “

Bayer Slashes 12,000 Jobs As Monsanto Takeover Turns Sour

December 2, 2018 Sustainable Pulse. Educate! Bayer, glyphosate, health, Monsanto

Chief Executive Werner Baumann is under pressure to boost Bayer’s share price after a drop of more than 35 percent so far this year, dragged down by concern over more than 9,000 lawsuits it faces over the cancer-causing effect of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. Sustainable Pulse Director, Henry Rowlands, commented on the shocking news on Thursday; “This just shows what happens when a company doesn’t do its homework before making a huge investment. Bayer will struggle to recover from the Monsanto fiasco and investors in the company are obviously now very concerned.

Bayer CEO: Roundup Weedkiller Cancer Victims Are ‘Nuisances’

November 9, 2018 Julie Wilson, Organicconsumers.org Resist! Cancer, Lawsuit, Monsanto, Roundup

There are about 8,700 lawsuits pending against Monsanto, by people who allege that exposure to Roundup weedkiller is responsible for their cancer. Most of the people behind these lawsuits have stories not unlike the one told by Dewayne Johnson, during his landmark jury trial which resulted in a unanimous decision against Monsanto. Like Johnson, many of these people have non-Hodgkin lymphoma—or they have family members who have already died from the disease. They face long, grueling trials as they go up against the biotech behemoth. To Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer ( acquired Monsanto last year for $63 billion), these people are just “nuisances.”

Decision To Uphold Verdict Against Monsanto Sends Bayer Stock Into Tailspin

October 26, 2018 Katherine Paul, Organicconsumers.org Resist! Courts, Monsanto, Roundup

When the judge in the Monsanto Roundup trial signaled she might overturn the jury’s verdict, we expected the worst. In the end, Judge Suzanne Bolanos slashed the amount of money the jury said Monsanto should pay its victim, Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, from $289 million to $78 million. That may not sound like much of a win, but there was good news in her decision: The jury’s guilty verdict was upheld. What Monsanto really wanted was for Bolanos to throw out the jury’s unanimous decision that Monsanto’s wildly profitable flagship weedkiller caused Johnson’s cancer, and that Monsanto knew all along that Roundup is a carcinogen. That didn’t happen.

A Judge Is Considering Letting Monsanto Off The Hook In Historic Roundup Case

October 18, 2018 Alexandra Jacobo, Nationofchange.org Educate! Courts, Monsanto

A judge in San Francisco last week announced that she is considering overturning the historic verdict that would lead to Monsanto being held accountable for manufacturing dangerous cancer-causing weedkillers. Although San Francisco Superior Court Judge Suzanne Bolanos hasn’t formally ruled on a decision, she did conduct a two-hour hearing to consider the BigAg company’s demand to toss out the entire jury verdict, which called for Monsanto to pay $289 million in damages. The hearing was scheduled after Bolanos wrote a tentative ruling stating her intention to strike down the punitive damages and schedule a new trial. In August a jury found that Monsanto knew, or should have known, its best-selling weedkiller, Roundup...

Judge Blocks Monsanto Subpoena To Collect Activists’ Personal Information

September 15, 2018 Julie Wilson, Organicconsumers.org Resist! Courts, Monsanto, Repression

Monsanto can’t catch a break, not that it deserves one. The $50-billion mega-corporation, now owned by Bayer, has taken a beating this year, both in the courts and in the public eye. On August 10, a jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289.2 million to a former groundskeeper who successfully argued that the company’s flagship weedkiller, Roundup, caused his cancer. A few days later, Monsanto lost its bid to keep glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, off of California’s Proposition 65 list of carcinogens. Now this: On September 6 (2018), a Manhattan judge threw out a subpoena filed by Monsanto against an activist group, going so far as to lecture Monsanto on the importance of free speech and democracy.

Vietnam To Pressure Monsanto Over Agent Orange Victims

August 26, 2018 Sustainable Pulse. Resist! Agent Orange, health, Monsanto, Vietnam

Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has stated that they will re-visit legal channels in an attempt to receive damages for over one million people, from a group of chemical companies including Monsanto and Dow Chemical, which produced the deadly herbicide Agent Orange for the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. The Foreign Ministry announcement came as a direct result of the legal precedent set by the landmark cancer trial verdict in San Francisco on August 10, in which Monsanto was ordered to pay over USD 289 Million in total damages to the former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson...

The World Reacts To The Roundup Cancer Trial Guilty Verdict

August 16, 2018 Staff, Sustainablepulse.com Resist! Cancer, Courts, glyphosate, Monsanto

Following the guilty verdict handed out on Friday to Monsanto in the landmark legal case in San Francisco, which judged that the glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, the pressure has mounted on Monsanto’s new owner Bayer from all over the world. Sustainable Pulse has put a review together of some of the most important global reactions to the verdict, which is set to see Monsanto pay out $289 Million in total damages to Mr. Dewayne Johnson, in the first of over 5000 legal cases that have been filed.

Monsanto’s Loss Is Our Gain—Let’s Make The Most Of It

August 15, 2018 Katherine Paul, Organicconsumers.org Organize! Cancer, Corruption, Courts, Monsanto

Thank you to the 12 jurors who listened attentively and critically, during long days of testimony, then deliberated with care, and ultimately did the right thing. Thank you to the lawyers who invested countless hours in investigative work and trial preparation, and who argued rationally and intelligently on behalf of the plaintiff, science and ethics. Thank you to those media outlets and advocacy organizations who covered the case, pored over the “Monsanto Papers” and took seriously their obligation to inform the public. But most of all, we owe a huge debt of gratitude to Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, the plaintiff in the Dewayne Johnson v. Monsanto case. For his persistence in getting to the bottom of what caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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