A former school groundskeeper in California testified Monday in a landmark lawsuit claiming that repeated exposure to Monsanto‘s popular Roundup weedkiller caused his terminal cancer. “I would never have sprayed the product around school grounds or around people if I thought it would cause them harm,” the 46-year-old Dewayne “Lee” Johnson told the San Francisco […]
By Carey Gillam Dewayne “Lee” Johnson has led what many might call an unremarkable life. The 46-year-old father and husband spent several years working as a school groundskeeper and spending free time teaching his two young sons to play football. But this week he takes center stage in a global debate over the safety of […]
Monsanto may have dropped its name, but it can’t drop the thousands of cases being brought against it by cancer sufferers claiming its weed-killer Roundup gave them non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the first of which goes to trial Monday, CNN reported. The first plaintiff to get his day in court is Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old Bay-area father […]
Bayer, which recently wrapped up its takeover of Monsanto, now owns glyphosate and the liabilities surrounding it. Last Thursday, the same day the $63 billion acquisition closed, a beekeeping cooperative in northern France filed a legal complaint against the German chemical giant after the controversial weedkiller was detected in honey produced by one of its […]
Bayer plans to complete its $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto on Thursday after receiving all required approvals from regulatory authorities. The German pharmaceutical company will also retire the St. Louis-based corporation’s 117-year-old name. “Bayer will remain the company name. Monsanto will no longer be a company name. The acquired products will retain their brand names […]
Some farmers transition to organic production to earn premium prices paid for organic crops. Others switch to make their farms more sustainable. But for some farmers transitioning to organic is a necessity to save their health—and even their lives. Blaine Schmaltz, who farms in Rugby, North Dakota, is a good example. One day in September […]
By Julie Wilson We know that humans increasingly test positive for residues of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto‘s Roundup weedkiller. For example, in tests conducted by a University of California San Francisco lab, 93 percent of the participants tested positive for glyphosate residues. In the European Union, when 48 members of Parliament volunteered for […]
By Jessica Corbett A California man dying of cancer will soon become the first person ever to take agrochemical giant Monsanto to trial over allegations that the company has concealed findings that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the company’s popular weedkiller Roundup, causes cancer. Before DeWayne Johnson, a 46-year-old father of three, was diagnosed with […]
A new study on glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto‘s Roundup—one of the world’s most widely used weedkillers—is fueling persistent concerns about the pesticide’s impact on sexual development, genotoxicity and intestinal bacteria, even when exposure is limited to a level currently considered “safe” by U.S. regulators. While the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), […]
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