Monsanto Charged with Chemical Poisoning

[JRLeft]

Monsanto Charged with Chemical Poisoning

Michelle Schoffro Cook
September 21, 2012
4:11 pm

It’s not every day that we learn about a victory for Mother Earth. But thanks to a 47-year old farmer and a French court there has been a victory against U.S. biotechnology giant Monsanto. And, I’d say that’s a triumph for Mother Earth as well. The company lost a court battle earlier this year and was charged as guilty of chemical poisoning. This judgment could lend credence to other health claims against Monsanto and pesticides in general.

Paul Francois, a French farmer sued Monsanto after he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, headaches, and stammering after inhaling the company’s Lasso weedkiller in 2004. He cited insufficient product label warnings as part of the problem.

“It is a historic decision in so far as it is the first time that a (pesticide) maker is found guilty of such a poisoning,” François Lafforgue, Paul Francois’s lawyer said in an interview with Reuters. In the same interview, Monsanto’s lawyer Jean-Philippe Delsart states: “Monsanto always considered that there were not sufficient elements to establish a causal relationship between Paul Francois’s symptoms and a potential poisoning.”

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Another study out of Germany found RoundUp in all human urine samples tested. The amount found in urine was 5 to 20 times the established upper limit for drinking water

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If you type “Monsanto” into Google, you’ll quickly find that the most common search term for the company is “Monsanto evil.” After years of following Monsanto’s path of destruction, I’d say Monsanto warrants the Worst Company of 2012 as well. What do you think? I’d love to know.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/monsanto-charged-with-chemical-poisoning.html#ixzz27BEppUHL

Monsanto is a criminal enterprise.

[Angry Dragon]

1. Another company tied to Willard

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Yes? How so?

[Angry Dragon]

13. Here is one link

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/14/850321/romney-monsanto/

[tama]

2. Monsanto Criminal Enterprise

is running the US department of agriculture...

[JRLeft]

3. I know and is running for congress against Steve King.

[villager]

4. Isn't that their entire business model?

[Matariki]

5. Too bad none of that criminals in charge will face any jail time

like ordinary people would for poisoning their neighbors.

[fasttense]

6. I knew a farmer who worked on the road crew

(because you can't make a real living merely running a small farm in the US). He got drenched with a weed killer by accident one day. He spent the next 12 months slowly deteriorating. He started with flu like symptoms and moved on to heart problems. He was dead in 12 months.

His widow believes that Monsanto's weed killer poisoned her husband. But as Monsanto will tell you - you got to prove it.

Be very careful with those agriculture chemicals out there. Yeah, the label says it's safe but then Monsanto has a good lobbying firm (the USDA) and wont tell you the real risk involved when you spray their crap on your land and food.

I grow organic but my neighbor likes to spray that weed killer on our fence line. He even gets his 8 year old girlfriend's boy to spray it all around. He has no clue what he is doing to the child.

[qb]

7. US regulators who blindly green-light this shit should face charges too.

[Honeycombe8]

9. That couldn't happen here. Even if the evidence is there...criminal charges?

That wouldn't happen here.

But kudos for France.

[Le Taz Hot]

10. Monsanto, DuPont, ConAgra

and other food industries are pouring millions $ into CA to fight GMO food labeling. If you're in CA, "Yes" on Prop. 37.

[JRLeft]

11. Publicly financed elections are needed more now than ever.

What else will stop politicians from selling out their constituents? We need Americans to read more. We need to inform the masses about this toxic industry.

[bvar22]

12. If you want to appreciate how BAD the problem is with Monsanto,

....type some of these into your Google Search Box:

"Monsanto connections Vilsack" (Secretary of of Agriculture)

"Monsanto Lobbyists & USDA" (US Department of Agriculture)

"Monsanto Lobbyists & Employees in the FDA" (Food & Drug Administration)

"Monsanto Exec appointed to head of FDA"

"Michael Taylor Monsanto FDA"



THAT will ruin your afternoon.





You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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