Een
derde rechtszaak tegen Monsanto vanwege het zwaar kankerverwekkende
Roundup (met het werkzame gif glyfosaat) toont aan dat Monsanto nauwe
banden heeft met regelgevers in de VS, zoals het Environmental
'Protection' Agency (EPA), protection tussen aanhalingstekens daar
het EPA allesbehalve het milieu en de bevolking beschermd, zoals uit
het hieronder opgenomen artikel ten overvloede nog eens
blijkt........
Het EPA
was al tot de slotsom gekomen dat glyfosaat* niet kankerverwekkend
is..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Nee, je doet op verzoek van de producent,
die miljarden heeft verdiend aan dit smerige gif, onderzoek en komt
dan tot de conclusie dat het niet kankerverwekkend is, terwijl echte
deskundigen en zelfs de rechter stellen dat dit wel zo is........
Het is
ronduit een schande dat de EU Roundup weer heeft toegelaten voor een
aantal jaren, mede met dank aan 'GroenLinks' EU grofgraaier Bas
Eickhout......
Niet
geheel toevallig dat de grote insectensterfte (twee derde van de
insecten is inmiddels gestorven) begon nadat Roundup in de 70er jaren
op de markt kwam.......
Lees het
volgende artikel over deze zaak en verbaas je ook over deze smerige
lobby van de EPA voor Monsanto, een samenwerking die ten koste gaat van het milieu, de dieren en als onderdeel van die laatste groep: de mens. Het artikel werd geschreven door Derrick Broze, verscheen eerder op The Mind Unleashed en werd door mij overgenomen van
Anti-Media:
New Roundup-Cancer Lawsuit Exposes Cozy Relationship Between Monsanto and EPA
April
20, 2019 at 8:38 am
Written
by Derrick
Broze
A
third lawsuit related to claims that Monsanto’s Roundup causes
cancer has revealed new details about the cozy relationship between
the biotech giant and U.S. regulators.
(TMU) — On
Monday, Monsanto Co. corporate spokesman William Reeves admitted the
corporation has regularly communicated with U.S. regulatory agencies
regarding reviews of the controversial Roundup herbicide. Reeves
denied that Monsanto had given the agencies orders to follow. Reeves’
testimony came about during the latest lawsuit against biotech giant
Monsanto, as Alva and Alberta Pilliod fight to prove that
Roundup caused their cancer.
The
Pilliods are both living with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after spraying the
herbicide Roundup on their properties for nearly 30 years. The
septuagenarian couple were diagnosed with the most common form
of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, in 2011 and
2015.
Now
the couple is seeking damages related to their use of Roundup after
recent studies have linked the world’s most popular herbicide to
cancer.
Courthouse
News reported
on the latest developments in the case:
“Attorney Brent Wisner, representing plaintiffs Alva and Alberta Pilliod, played video testimony of Monsanto corporate spokesman William Reeves in court Monday, in which he acknowledged Monsanto executives had exchanged text messages with regulators who sat on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency committee that found glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, is not carcinogenic for humans.The Pilliods’ legal team hopes these email and text exchanges will be enough evidence of collusion between Monsanto and the EPA to delay a review by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a public health agency connected to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
The
text messages show that on June 18, 2015, Monsanto scientist Eric
Sachs sent a text message to former EPA toxicologist Mary Manibusan,
looking for help finding a contact in the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Sachs was looking to
communicate with someone in relation to the agency’s ongoing work
developing a toxicological profile of glyphosate, Roundup’s main
ingredient. The ATSDR had begun working on the profile after the
World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research
concluded that glyphosate was “probably
carcinogenic to humans.”
(foto van The Mind Unleashed)
In
another text, Manibusan told Dan Jenkins, Monsanto’s liaison to
U.S. regulatory agencies like the EPA, that he may need help “trying
to do everything we can to keep from having a domestic IARC occur
with this group,”
in reference to the ATSDR. By June 23, 2015, Jenkins wrote to his
Monsanto colleagues alerting them that Jack Housenger, director of
EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, would put a hold on the
report. “ATSDR
Director and Branch Chief have promised Jack Housenger (Director of
the US Office of Pesticide Programs) to put their report ‘on hold’
until after EPA releases its preliminary risk assessment (PRA) for
glyphosate,”
Jenkins wrote.
When
questioned about these texts by the Pilliods’ lawyers, Reeves
confirmed the text messages were authentic, but stated, “I
never heard anyone at the EPA say they were going to tell ATSDR what
to do.”
The
testimony from Reeves comes a week after Dr. Dennis Weisenburger
testified that years of spraying Roundup likely caused the Pilliods’
lymphoma. Dr. Weisenburger testified that Alberta used Roundup an
estimated 279 times, and Al 729 times—both without wearing
protective equipment.“It’s
not a hard call,”
Weisenburger said on the witness stand, stating that using Roundup
more than two days per year doubles the risk of developing
non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “It’s
the intensity of exposure that’s more important than the length.”
The
Pilliods’ trial is expected to wrap up in the coming weeks, with
Monsanto’s lawyers beginning their cross examination next week.
The
case is the third lawsuit brought against Monsanto in the last two
years. In 2018, a California jury found that Monsanto’s Roundup
contributed to cancer in DeWayne Johnson, a former school
groundskeeper. In that case, evidence of corporate misconduct played
a key role in the jury’s decision. In August 2018, Johnson was
awarded $289 million after a jury found that Monsanto failed to
notify him and other consumers of the dangers of Roundup.
Additionally,
a jury
in San Francisco recently found that
Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer played a significant role in
contributing to 70-year old Edwin Hardeman’s cancer.
Hardeman used Roundup on his 56-acre Sonoma County property for
decades before he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in
2015. The unanimous verdict concluded a trial that may
determine the future of thousands of similar lawsuits filed against
biotechnology giant Monsanto.
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* Onlangs werd na onderzoek in de VS vastgesteld dat werkelijk iedereen in meer of mindere mate glyfosaat heeft opgeslagen in het lichaam (hetzelfde geldt overigens voor microplastics, al is dit het geval bij de hele wereldbevolking.......). Overigens gezien die vaststelling over glyfosaat, dit ook voor de bevolking in vele andere landen geldt, neem alleen al het enorme gebruik van glyfosaat in de EU landbouw, waar zoals gezegd 'GroenLinks' EU grofgraaier Eickhout een voorstander was van langer gebruik van dit kankerverwekkende gif.......
