A jury has awarded Edwin Hardeman $80 million in damages, whose lawyers argued that the glyphosate-based herbicide caused his cancer after more than two decades of Roundup usage on his property.
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A jury has awarded Edwin Hardeman $80 million in damages, whose lawyers argued that the glyphosate-based herbicide caused his cancer after more than two decades of Roundup usage on his property.
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Despite the rulings that glyphosate causes cancer, many farmers are sticking with the toxic pesticide — for now.
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In another blow to Bayer/Monsanto, a California court ruled that the company’s weedkiller caused cancer, only 8 months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different case.
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Monsanto is already facing a slew of lawsuits for causing cancer, but now it is being sued for impacting healthy gut bacteria.
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Some encouraging news out of Europe. A French court canceled the license for one of Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkillers over safety concerns, placing an immediate ban on Roundup Pro 360 in the latest legal blow to the Bayer-owned business.
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Shocking but not shocking. The Guardian is claiming that EU regulators literally copy-and-pasted sections from Monsanto’s own studies when creating an “independent” safety report on the controversial weedkiller glyphosate.
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India’s Supreme Court just ruled that Monsanto can claim patents on its GM-cotton seeds, a decision that is expected to encourage other ag-biotech companies to increase their investment in the country.
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A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging that Monsanto’s Roundup causes cancer has issued a ruling that could severely restrict evidence that the plaintiffs consider crucial to their cases.
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Despite the fact that agronomists reported over one million acres of dicamba-injured soybeans in 14 states, in addition to many reports of dicamba damage to trees and gardens, the EPA just re-approved this Monsanto pesticide for another two years.
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A San Francisco Superior Court judge, who had considered overturning the recent $289M verdict against Monsanto for its RoundUp causing Dewayne Johnson to get cancer, upheld the decision but reduced the financial award to $78M.
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A California judge ruled that Monsanto did not act with “malice or oppression” when California groundskeeper DeWayne Johnson claimed that the constant use of Roundup caused his cancer. As such, a new trial may be coming soon.
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In a wide-ranging and revealing interview, Caius Rommens, a former director of J.R. Simplot and team leader at Monsanto, reveals the hidden dangers of the GMO potato that he created.
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A prominent academic journal said Monsanto did not fully disclose its involvement in a published research paper that found the herbicide to be non-toxic, thereby bolstering the argument that the company ghost-wrote safety reviews.
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With California’s landmark court case ruling that Monsanto’s Roundup was responsible for a groundskeeper’s cancer, the number of lawsuits against the company has grown to more than 8,000.
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In a very important ruling, a judge decided that 400 lawsuits which claim that glyphosate – the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup – caused cancer can now go to trial.
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Barely alive, David Johnson is the first of 800 victims to sue Monsanto for causing him cancer.
Read Article Using internal correspondence within Monsanto, a plaintiff in California is contending that Monsanto knew for decades that its weedkiller product was carcinogenic.
Read Article It has been reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is set to approve the Bayer-Monsanto merger, a very unfortunate development which will only further consolidate corporate control of our food supply.
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In a piece of good news for consumers and farmers, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that the proposed merger could hurt competition and that Bayer’s plan to sell off some businesses before the deal is finalized does not go far enough.
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A federal judge temporarily ruled that California cannot force Monsanto to put a warning label on its glyphosate products, but the chemical can still remain on the state’s cancer-causing list.
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A federal lawsuit has been filed against the EPA and Monsanto over the approval of Monsanto’s XtendiMax weedkiller, which puts hundreds of endangered species at risk.
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Because of the damage that dicamba has caused, which has forced farmers to purchase Monsanto’s GMO-corn and soybean seeds, a treble damages class action suit has been filed against the company.
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U.S. Right to Know makes the case that Henry Miller’s piece in Newsweek, which slams organic food, has Monsanto’s fingerprints all over it.
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As part of its plan to form a new coalition within the German government, Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union of Germany has agreed to a complete ban of glyphosate, which would be a massive blow to the Monsanto-Bayer merger.
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