Five years ago, the Obama EPA doubled the amount of Roundup farmers could apply to food crops because they were more concerned about fighting increasingly tough weeds than preventing cancer and other maladies Roundup might cause in the people using Monsanto’s chemicals.
A San Francisco jury’s decision last week to make Monsanto pay a school groundskeeper $289 million might prompt a rational EPA to rethink those priorities:
A San Francisco jury on Friday found Monsanto liable for a school groundskeeper’s lymphoma that he said developed after years of applying the company’s trademarked Roundup weed killer.
…The jury deliberated three days before awarding $39 million in compensatory damages and $250 million in punitive damages to groundskeeper DeWayne Lee Johnson, 46. He claimed that years of applying Monsanto’s Roundup and Ranger Pro to school properties in a Bay Area suburb of Benicia caused his incurable non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Activists, who have long battled to ban glyphosate, lauded the decision in the closely watched trial.
“Monsanto made Roundup the OxyContin of pesticides, and now the addiction and damage they caused have come home to roost,” said Ken Cook, president of Environmental Working Group. “This won’t cure DeWayne Lee Johnson’s cancer, but it will send a strong message to a renegade company” [Geoffrey Mohan, “California Jury Awards $289 Million to Man Who Claimed Monsanto’s Roundup Pesticide Gave Him Cancer,” Los Angeles Times, 2018.08.10].
Bayer paid $62.5 billion to acquire Monsanto in June. If the San Francisco jury award stands, and if the 5,000 lawsuits similar to Mr. Johnson’s win the same sorts of penalties, Bayer would have to pay out $1.445 trillion. Bayer maintains that glyphosate does not cause cancer when used according to the label.
https://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-papers-2467891575.html
Papers released prove Monsanto ghostwrote EPA report in favor of glyphosphate saying it is not carcinogenic and talking about payments to scientists and others.
This is a silly lawsuit. He should have to prove Roundup gave him cancer. No doubt one could look at his lifestyle and pick most anything he’s ever seen, smelled or touched and attribute it to any sickness he’s ever had.
Lawsuits, while people are still allowed to sue, are the only protection citizens have against korporate kriminals. You don’t honestly believe this government is going to protect you and yours at the expense of korporate profits, do you?
You should know korporations don’t care about you, either.
Daddy always said, “what don’t kill you makes ya stronger,” but since RoundUp will just simply kill you, who am I supposed to believe?
I am a bit torn. Daddy was right about everything, but then so called science comes along and says my daddy was dumb as a rock, when he taught me everything I know – about life. I DO KNOW that science ain’t as smart as it thinks it is. Baby killin’ is wrong – and everyone I know says liberals are the radical ones.
So, I think I’m prolly just gonna stick with my Daddy, friends and family on politics. Can’t see no other way really. Everyone I know would hate me if I were a disagreeable type.
My friends and I actually grew up playing a game where we orally consume shot glasses of RoundUp and who ever blacks out first looses. I usually get to 3 or 4 before it gets tough. No one ever gets hurt and it’s actually kinda fun! Ain’t nothin’ better to do, around here, anyway.
#MAGA
Who at THEY to judge my Daddy?!?!
#MAGA
We Vietnam veterans all have what is called presumptive illnesses related to Agent Orange, his happens to be one of them. Farmers, check out what we have known since our own Senator Tom Daschle got legislation through to give us the treatments for this killer. Round up is Agent Orange, Agent Orange is Round up. Your families deserve to know, also, this stuff gets into the water systems as well.
“Monsanto has been in the poison game for a long time. All the propaganda in the world can’t erase the fact that they first poisoned thousand of Vietnamese, Thai, and Koreans as well as countless American soldiers with Agent Orange, who only now receive compensation for the effects of Monsanto’s bio-warfare decades later. The proof is finally so pervasive that the company can no longer just sweep away evidence of their evil-doing.
Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/still-eating-agent-orange/#ixzz5OIvwNHWQ
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Farmers in my first parish built a big new machine shed/shop and one of the amenities was a shower. Why a shower in a shop? They said it was so after they got done applying “chemical” they could shower and change clothes so they didn’t get any more of that stuff on their skin than they had to and didn’t bring any of it into the house. They also had a big sink to wash out breathing masks. Why? So they didn’t inhale that stuff.
The “chemical” they were referencing was Roundup. If these SD farmers, who claimed Roundup and Roundup ready seed was great stuff, also took these precautions, just how safe is it?
Don’t drink the stuff, that’s for sure. Ms. Geelsdottir, when you ran your first parish did you cast down your man-hate on all these farmers, RoundUp users or not?
Ms. Debbo, what was their rates for diabetes, Parkinson’s, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma? No matter what kind of protection you have, you are not protected.
Let’s quiz the liberals.
What is the second leading cause of lung cancer?
I will give you a head start and tell you it’s not second hand smoke.
This guy is going to lose. I feel bad for him wasting his time.
So nobody was concerned that this was sprayed around a school.
That’s nice. Let’s hose down the kids with Round-up and see what happens to them.
After reading about a controversial study that showed GMO corn and Round-up caused tumors in rats, and having had two dogs die of malignant tumors and two others who died prematurely of unknown causes, plus a number of cats, I quit feeding my pets food containing corn. Since then the pets are lasting longer now. One dog had a large tumor on his leg but that has been removed, and he’s doing pretty well for a 12 year old husky.
My daughter used to eat a lot of corn: Doritos, corn flakes, corn bread, whole kernel corn as a side dish, she just liked it, it was cheap, and she ate a lot of it. At age 30 she was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer.
There’s actually more Round -up in oats, but whatever. You can eat whatever you want, but broccoli is better for you.
Oh Grudzie, wallowing in your guilt. Sorry, I can’t help you with it. It’s nice to see you can stay on topic though. 😉
I ain’t need no regulations. When you die, you die – and when it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Libtards try to prevent cancer – big waste of money. In the end, everybody gets cancer. It’s what we used to call, “dying of old age” but now that we’ve discovered cancer, libtards be all thinking that cancer is on the rise. LOL. Cancer has been here forever, we just keep finding new ways of discovering more and more types of cancer – that’s all.
No matter how old I get, I’m healthier and smarter than ever !!!
[really getting in the part – becoming the roll – BEING the character]
Know thy enemy.
Adam, how many Viet Nam vets died of Agent Orange old age? If memory serves, many died of a pretty young old age with nasty side effects. Got any pearls of wizdumb to drop about this?
Jerry says Roundup is agent orange and agent orange is Roundup. Roundup is Glyfosate and agent orange is Gramoxone, which is 24D and parquat. Agent orange is a complete defoliant and Roundup is not. These two chemicals are completely different. If you used agent orange on soybeans it would kill them in hours. I am not saying that Roundup is safe but is far safer that agent orange. Check out the facts on the chemistries of those two herbicides.
Greg, “Is Monsanto’s RoundUp (Glyphosate) the New Agent Orange?” According to this article, yep. You say potato and I say a potato bomb that is killing us. A bullet fired from a gun that hits you in the melon, kills you without regard to what caliber it is.
“The truth is that RoundUp, in the form of glyphosate, is just another product of the military industrial complex, and an evolution of Agent Orange. If we don’t wake up and fight, en masse, then Monsanto and its government connections will completely destroy our food supply and our planet.”
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trump waived the white flag of surrender to China, so put away the poison and drag out the cultivator, do yourself and your land a favor. Look at it this way, ya got 12 Billion as a bonus to work with, start working and stop spraying. China and the rest of the world will pay you more for your beans if they are not GMO. Gwaaad do I have to market this stuff for you?
The trump surrender has markets are up well over 300 points already. Beans will follow that, so there ya go. 12 Billion bonus for the Bribe and all is well…until…next plant. Ya got no solution to your marketing and with ol’ Sonny there, all ya got is a chubby racist and being a racist won’t put answers to your ag problems.
Greg,
Jerry failed chemistry class.
Greg- 2-4 D kills broadleaf weeds and is a contact herbicide.
Glyphosphate is a systemic herbicide which means it goes through the entire plant-root system and all. Glyphosphate will kill the trees and leaves and grasses and other stuff 2-4 D is not meant to kill.
And there is a 2-4 D resistant soybean on the market.
Jason, if you are one tenth as smart as you try to make everyone believe, why aren’t you a member of Mensa and a gazillionaire, instead of infecting Cory’s blog?
Greg and all farmers, here is what the Veterans Administration declares. If you have an old grandfathered health plan, remember that 2 million is for your lifetime, not that much dealing with the stuff listed below. Think about that when you go to the voting booth in November. The republican elite in Washington are in the bag to get rid of the ACA/Obamacare and want you to agree…then they fire sale your place for the big boys. Don’t let them do that to your family.
“VA has recognized certain cancers and other health problems as presumptive diseases associated with exposure to Agent Orange or other herbicides during military service. Veterans and their survivors may be eligible for benefits for these diseases.
1.AL Amyloidosis
A rare disease caused when an abnormal protein, amyloid, enters tissues or organs
2.Chronic B-cell Leukemias
A type of cancer which affects white blood cells
3.Chloracne (or similar acneform disease)
A skin condition that occurs soon after exposure to chemicals and looks like common forms of acne seen in teenagers. Under VA’s rating regulations, it must be at least 10 percent disabling within one year of exposure to herbicides.
4. Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
A disease characterized by high blood sugar levels resulting from the body’s inability to respond properly to the hormone insulin
5. Hodgkin’s Disease
A malignant lymphoma (cancer) characterized by progressive enlargement of the lymph nodes, liver, and spleen, and by progressive anemia
6. Ischemic Heart Disease
A disease characterized by a reduced supply of blood to the heart, that leads to chest pain
7. Multiple Myeloma
A cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell in bone marrow
8. Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
A group of cancers that affect the lymph glands and other lymphatic tissue
9. Parkinson’s Disease
A progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects muscle movement
10. Peripheral Neuropathy, Early-Onset
A nervous system condition that causes numbness, tingling, and motor weakness. Under VA’s rating regulations, it must be at least 10 percent disabling within one year of herbicide exposure.
11. Porphyria Cutanea Tarda
A disorder characterized by liver dysfunction and by thinning and blistering of the skin in sun-exposed areas. Under VA’s rating regulations, it must be at least 10 percent disabling within one year of exposure to herbicides.
12. Prostate Cancer
Cancer of the prostate; one of the most common cancers among men
13. Respiratory Cancers (includes lung cancer)
Cancers of the lung, larynx, trachea, and bronchus
14. Soft Tissue Sarcomas (other than osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Kaposi’s sarcoma, or mesothelioma)
A group of different types of cancers in body tissues such as muscle, fat, blood and lymph vessels, and connective tissues” https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/conditions/
Also, keep in mind birth defects. You can find out more by going to the VA. Gov.
Stop using this poison dude, ya got about 1100 acres that you farm. If you have one of those old grandfathered plans, they will only cover you for a couple of million lifetime. If Comrade Dusty gets elected, that little Russian will only follow NOem and her will to destroy the ACA. So healthcare should be a big deal for you and all farmers.
MFI. you are dead on with the mode of action differences of 24D vs glyphosate. There is a 2 4D resistant soybean that farmers will use but it is not approved for export. I certainly am not going to downplay the risk of Roundup. As a farmer we have been told by Monsanto that Rounduo was safe to use. We as farmers trusted Monsanto while they charged billions of dollars of tech fees. Did Monsanto lie to everyone for their own profit, sure could be.
Greg, you as farmers should know that Monsanto does not tell the truth and now they are sold to Bayer. Of note, this comes from the EU who have been battling Monsanto for years:
“A huge fear among environmentalists was that Bayer would no longer be motivated to find an alternative to the controversial pesticide glyphosate once it decided to acquire Monsanto. Glyphosate, which activists argue is a risk to human health and biodiversity, is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, one of the world’s blockbuster herbicides.
To combat the glyphosate problem, the Commission has not only told Bayer to divest its rival product to glyphosate, known as glufosinate, to BASF, but is also forcing it to sell all of its research looking into finding an alternative. BASF, which currently sells no product like glyphosate, will now become a player in this market.” https://www.politico.eu/article/5-takeaways-from-eu-green-light-for-bayer-monsanto-agribusiness-glyphosate-mega-merger/
If we are going to insist that Trump and his cronies respect scientific study in crafting government policy, then it is paramount that the left respect scientific study as well. This verdict hardly seems to be based upon proper standards of proof and scientific truth.
Similarly, the environmental working group is undermining its scientific authority by grabbing headlines with sensationalist claims of Roundup in our breakfast food. They arbitrarily decrease the threshold of allowable trace amounts of glyphosate beyond the EPA limits and beyond the even more strict limits set by the state of California.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/glyphosate-from-monsantos-weed-killer-roundup-in-breakfast-cereal-isnt-something-to-worry-about.html
Even in the age of Trump, the truth matters. Arbitrarily undermining scientific study is a vice whether it comes from the left or out of Trump’s mouth.
True that Mr. Larson, but there is something that is missing here and that is the evidence in this California case and the many cases that go with it. What did the jury see to convince them, beyond a doubt, that the glyphosate caused the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma? I read the articles, thanks for the links, to a point and that point was that they say the words probably does not cause. What I find interesting is that there is even a trace of glyphosate in the processed cereal. Non-Hodgkins is the one cancer that was tested on the 89,000 farmers that came up empty enough to declare it unlikely to be caused by glyphosate and yet, the jury finds evidence to the contrary.
Also, something must have caused Monsanto to suddenly decide that they were no longer gonna be a company and went on the auction block.
Jerry makes a good point – without actually seeing and reviewing the evidence admitted at trial we really are in no position to criticize the jury. This reminds me of the McDonald’s elderly woman genital coffee burn case a few years ago – people criticized the jury with no knowledge of the powerful evidence of deliberate indifference to customer safety that was presented to the jury, including a history of customer burns and the corporate disregard of multiple warnings that people would continue to be harmed absent a change in policy.
Also, I am not sure how this Roundup jury ruling can be labeled a “liberal” decision with no knowledge of the jury’ political makeup.
People also seem to be ignoring evidence of Monsanto and EPA falsifying records to favor Monsanto. Isn’t that an actionable crime and since Monsanto is considered to be a person, shouldn’t Monsanto be rotting in jail?
I read korporate krime under Drumpf’s reign of terror has been ignored, but this is seriously ridiculous to ignore these types of crimes.
“Everything that is for sale is safe, or it wouldn’t be for sale.” -Rural Opinion #58264
Speaking of Agent Orange- the toxic defoiliant, not the monster in Kremlin Annex,
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/trump-got-bizarre-fight-vietnam-vets-movie-apocalypse-now-report/
Drumpf swears the US attacked Viet Cong with Agent Orange instead of napalm.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/monsanto-pleads-guilty-to-using-banned-pesticide-on-research-crop/
Used banned herbicide in Hawaii and told workers to re-enter field after 6 days instead of waiting required 31 days. You can’t trust corporate amerika!
“You can’t trust corporate amerika!”
Absolutely true.