Posted August 17, 2018
Dewayne Johnson and his legal team have made history with the recent court decision handed down in San Francisco. Being dubbed ‘The verdict heard around the world,’ global headlines are buzzing as they break the news of the precedent-setting legal loss for agrochemical giant Monsanto. Found guilty on all counts, Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289M to Johnson who claimed exposure to the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide caused his cancer. Read more.
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One Man’s Suffering Exposed Monsanto’s Secrets to the World
Posted August 17, 2018
* Company’s own records revealed damning truth of glyphosate-based herbicides’ link to cancer. It was a verdict heard around the world. In a stunning blow to one of the world’s largest seed and chemical companies, jurors in San Francisco have told Monsanto it must pay $289m in damages to a man dying of cancer which he claims was caused by exposure to its herbicides. Read more.
Monsanto Witness Admits Calculations Were Wildly Wrong
Posted August 17, 2018
Attorneys Robert F. Kennedy and Kevin Baum, who are involved in the US cancer litigation on the side of the cancer sufferer plaintiff Dewayne Johnson, have written a crushing commentary on the expertise of Monsanto’s bought-in witness. The witness, Dr Warren Foster, reportedly made elementary errors in his use of “historical control data” to dismiss findings of increased tumours in glyphosate-exposed mice. Read more.
GM Bt Toxin is Immunogenic, Allergenic, and Causes Pre-Cancerous Intestinal Changes
Posted August 17, 2018
GM Bt crops are engineered to express Bt toxins, insecticides that are intended to kill pests that feed on the crops. The GMO industry claims that its Bt toxins are safe for human and animal consumers – and all living organisms outside the narrow range of targeted pests. But a new study (abstract below) casts these claims into doubt and raises new questions about the safety of GM Bt toxin. Read more.
Monsanto’s Herbicide Expert has Bad Day in Court
Posted August 10, 2018
Johnson is one of thousands of plaintiffs to file suit against Monsanto in state court over the alleged link between Roundup and NHL. More than 450 other lawsuits filed in federal court are currently pending in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Since the start of the Johnson trial, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., co-counsel to Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, has provided running commentary of the events in court each day. Here’s his post for day 14 of the Monsanto trial: Read more.
GM Gene Escape into Non-GM Plant Populations
Posted August 10, 2018
A new study looks at 14 cases in which GM genes have escaped into non-GM plant populations and considers which plants might be at risk currently and in future. The newer at-risk plants include eggplants/aubergines and various types of grass. Read more.
Nestle Misled Consumers About GMOs in its Food Products, Lawsuit Alleges
Posted August 10, 2018
A lawsuit filed in the US accuses Nestle of designing a seal on its product packaging with the intention to trick consumers into thinking that its products were certified by the non-profit Non-GMO Project, an independent third-party certification body. The suit also accuses Nestle of selling foods under its own “non-GMO” seal that were in fact produced using GMOs, such as dairy products from animals fed GMOs. This would not be accepted under the Non-GMO Project standard. Read more.
EU Commission Authorizes Five GM Ingredients
Posted August 3, 2018
The European Commission has authorised five genetically modified crops for food and feed. Read more.
GM Fish Food Intended to Prop up Unsustainable Fish Farming
Posted August 3, 2018
Researchers in Scotland are giving farmed salmon feed made from GM camelina plants engineered to produce “healthy” oil (see article below). The aim of the scientific trial is to increase the nutritional value of the fish. The GM camelina used in the trial is not the gene edited version currently being grown in an illegal field trial, but an earlier old-style GM variety. Read more.
Bayer, BASF to Pursue Plant Gene Editing Elsewhere After EU Ruling
Posted August 3, 2018
Bayer <BAYGn.DE> and BASF <BASFn.DE>, among Europe’s largest makers of farm supplies, all but ruled out pursuing genetic plant breeding at home after the EU ruled the technology should be regulated like genetically modified organisms (GMO). Read more.
