“Monsanto basically unleashed a virus that couldn’t be contained and doesn’t go away...”
Lawsuits from several quarters are beginning to pile up on Monsanto, considered the most evil corporation and threat to agriculture by many. Guerrilla warfare has been utilized successfully in the past to ward off unwelcome invaders.
The cumbersome military machinery of invading or colonizing populations isn’t able to withstand the constantly surprising, unpredictable attacks. Even though each is usually small, their synergy adds up to to stalemate the larger military forces.
Consider Monsanto the colonizing invader that’s in league with a government, which is internationally a colonizing military invader. Monsanto former key employees occupy the White House and control the USDA, the EPA, and FDA. Trying to get this government to even label GMOs is a losing battle.
They’re in the process of passing HR 1599, dubbed by critics as the DARK Act (Denying Americans the Right to Know) which will override states’ decisions to label GMOs.
Guerrilla Attacks on Monsanto via Roundup
So now we must resort to guerrilla warfare through the tort court system. The WHO (World Health Organization) finally did right for those of us who care about our food and the future of food safety. They commissioned a study by the IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) that determined glyphosate, the known active ingredient of Monsanto’s Roundup, is a probable carcinogenic with a carcinogen rating of 2A.
Monsanto’s PR people tried to confuse the issue by declaring the WHO rating is 2B, possibly carcinogenic. But there is a big difference between possible and probable. The next level up from probable is declaring it carcinogenic or group 1.
And the person who led that research stated only unreliable or faulty data from two small international regions kept their 2B rating from becoming group 1- carcinogenic.
Group 1 – Carcinogenic to humans
Group 2A – Probably carcinogenic to humans
Group 2B – Possibly carcinogenic to humans
Group 3 – Not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans
Group 4 – Probably not carcinogenic to humans
Source: IARC Monographs
Hawaii
has finally stepped to the plate with a tort lawsuit against Monsanto’s
Roundup by former Kona Coffee growers. Recent citizens’ legislative
attempts to regulate pesticide/herbicide testing that were running
rampant on the Islands from Syngenta, Monsanto, and Bayer were thwarted
by corrupt state officials.Christine and Kenneth Sheppard, the former owners of Dragon’s Lair Kona Coffee Farm in Honaunau, Hawaii, have launched their lawsuit against Monsanto, Sheppard et al v. Monsanto Company. It was filed in the US District Court in Honolulu by Honolulu attorney Brian K. Mackintosh and the Miller Law Firm of Orange, Virginia.
The Sheppards claim Christine was diagnosed with late stage non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL), after using Roundup on their coffee farm from 1995 to 2004. She was diagnosed with the cancer in 2003, and the filing states Monsanto “knew or had reason to know that its Roundup products were defective and were inherently dangerous and unsafe when used in the manner instructed and provided by defendant.”
There are several other similar lawsuits, most of them for NHL, a lymph cancer and leukemia, a blood cancer. Many are from farm workers. According to international news agency Reuters, “the Baltimore firm of Saiontz & Kirk advertises a “free Roundup lawsuit evaluation” on its website. The Washington, D.C. firm Schmidt & Clark is doing the same, as are other firms in Texas, Colorado and California.”
These and other law firms are the ambulance chasers to ride with for guerrilla attacks against Monsanto. This is the type of activity that elevates ambulance chasers to righteous crusaders. And they wouldn’t be piling on if in addition to the WHO carcinogenic labeling there has been internal documentation proving Monsanto has known of the dangers and lied to cover them up.
California has ordered carcinogenic warnings on Roundup labels per its Proposition or Prop 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. Monsanto is suing the state of California to remove the label as well as demanding a retraction from the WHO’s IARC 2A designation of “probable carcinogenic”.
California Cities Go After Monsanto to Clean Up PCBS
Monsanto is also fending off claims over its past manufacturing of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which the WHO classifies as known carcinogens, group 1. At least 700 lawsuits against Monsanto or Monsanto-related entities are pending.Among them are large lawsuits from California cities demanding Monsanto pay for cleanups of massive PCB contamination that the company had manufactured until the late 1970s. Then it was declared group 1 carcinogenic by all agencies except our EPA, which categorized it as probable, or group 2A.
“Monsanto basically unleashed a virus that couldn’t be contained and doesn’t go away,” said Scott Summy, an environmental attorney with Baron & Budd, a Texas-based law firm collaborating on the PCB cleanup cases.
According to documents submitted into the court record, Monsanto officials discussed at least as early as 1969 continuing “sales and profits” of PCBs despite knowing the chemicals were likely a “global contaminant.”
So here we are, trying to convince the government and its citizens that the company that specializes in making toxins that harm the environment such as Agent Orange, PCBs, and Roundup, as well as toxins that threaten human and animal health such as aspartame and synthetic growth hormones that force cows to milk more and become sick, is not to be trusted for feeding the world.
Never mind expecting help from corrupt governments and politicians for now. Simply sue the lying disease causing sociopathic bastards as often as possible from as many different angles and sources that can exist. Here’s why it is important to maintain at least a level of guerrilla warfare against the biotech industry.
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By Paul Fassa via Real Farmacy
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Sources:
http://ecowatch.com/2016/02/09/monsanto-sued-coffee-farmers/
http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/16/lawsuits-monsanto-cancer-roundup/
http://ecowatch.com/2016/01/22/monsanto-sues-california-glyphosate/
https://www.google.com/search?q=bay+area+lawsuit+monsanto&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/11/monsanto-pcbs-san-diego-bay-cleanup-gomez-lawyers/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-monsanto-lawsuits-idUSKCN0S92H720151015
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