Pesticide Ban To Be Considered In Hawaii County

[PaulW]

"the huge lawsuit coming up next month will start to open peoples eyes a bit more"

Please tell me more! Plenty of details. Is this anything like the other lawsuits you were so wrong about?

[Obie]

ElysianWort

This is just one of the hundreds of pages on this subject.

Use the search function with the keywords "monsanto", "GMO"or "Roundup"!

[TomK]

ElysianWort wrote:

"It is toxic stuff, including Roundup and the huge lawsuit coming up next month will start to open peoples eyes a bit more."

Please do keep us all in touch with this "huge" lawsuit. When does it start and who are the plaintiffs?

[ElysianWort]

Here:

https://usrtk.org/pesticides/mdl-monsant...-analysis/

[ElysianWort]

And here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monsantos-r...ourt-case/

[Rob Tucker]

Hmmm. It will be interesting to see the reaction to a court decision on this lawsuit. Legally it may have merit. Politically it may not affect opinions.

The Round up issue seems to parallel petroleum except it is well known and accepted that petroleum products are very dangerous ( as both an explosive flammable and in its chemical concoctions) and we all buy them daily and regularly without apparent concern. We like eating food and we also like being able to drive where and when we want.

[rainyjim]

EW,

FWIW, I have a restricted use pesticide applicators license for Hawaii and advocate for evidence based decision making in politics.

There is no evidence linking glyphosate (the active ingredient in Round Up) to cancer.

This is an excerpt from the article below from the judge hearing the case you seem to be excited about: ”I do have a difficult time understanding how an epidemiologist in the face of all the evidence that we saw and heard last week” can conclude that glyphosate “is in fact causing” non-Hodgkin lymphoma in human beings, he said Wednesday. “The evidence that glyphosate is currently causing NHL in human beings” at current exposure levels is “pretty sparse,” he said

So for EW, and any others curious - this is going nowhere - just costing taxpayers money and wasting the courts time.

www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-03-14/monsanto-judge-says-expert-testimony-against-roundup-is-shaky

[PaulW]

EW, I don’t see anything in your links about a court case happening (or being decided?) next week, maybe I’m missing something.

[TomK]

Maybe I don't know what a "huge" lawsuit is. I still don't know after EW's links although I appreciate they were given. EW's second link, i.e.,

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monsantos-r...ourt-case/

is interesting.

[PaulW]

More recent news on that court case (though not very recent)
https://www.courthousenews.com/scientist...es-cancer/