Source: Sonja Begemann, GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 6/26/18


The San Fransisco Superior Court will soon hear testimony from a man dying of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma who claims Roundup (glyphosate) caused his cancer. This trial is the first of many against Monsanto under claims its widely-used herbicide lead to cancer. Monsanto says they’ll be successful at trial because time after time glyphosate has proven to be safe.
“This is 100% based on IARC [which is associated with the World Health Organization, WHO],” says Scott Partridge, Monsanto vice president of global strategy in an interview with AgWeb concerning the trial. 

For more of this story, click here.