Roundup (cancer causing substance) cases underway

[ElysianWort]

Heck yeah, it's about time. She is trying to ban it, go Tulsi Gabbard!

https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-v...C4GRNdLzeI

[PaulW]

At last a Hawaii connection! Well done.

[hikatz]

Posting this for you Elysian[]

This opinion article by Carey Gillam in the Guardian Sunday is an interesting read!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...-academics

[Obie]

Guardian ?

This is Puna .

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I was listening to Fresh Air on Hawaii Public Radio as I drove home from Hilo, and the discussion was about the future of agriculture. It’s possible Roundup may be replaced by robot weeders in the near future. Some prototypes still use small amounts of herbicide with precise targeting mechanisms:
https://www.ecowatch.com/ecorobotix-robo...22694.html

... others are soil cultivators, and hoe out the weeds, organically, with solar powered motors to boot:
https://newfoodeconomy.org/robot-weeders...placement/

They’re relatively expensive now, but even the big boys like John Deere are developing models so they must see a future in their use and production.

[hikatz]

I do not have Elysian's email, I am sure it will not offend posters if I leave a message for him, I did not expect anyone else to read it since it is addressed to him. Thank you

[glinda]

Posting this for you Elysian..

Thanks for sharing the link with all of us.

From the article...

Much attention has been paid to Monsanto conversations in which company scientists casually discuss ghostwriting scientific papers and suppressing science that conflicts with corporate assertions of Roundup’s safety. There has also been public outrage over internal records illustrating cozy relationships with friendly regulators which border on – and possibly cross into – collusion.

But these once-confidential Monsanto documents demonstrate that the deception has gone much deeper. In addition to the manipulation of science and of regulators, the company’s most insidious deceit may be its strategic manipulation of the media, according to the records.

We recently learned that a young woman falsely posing as a freelance BBC reporter at one of the Roundup cancer trials was in fact a “reputation management” consultant for FTI Consulting, whose clients include Monsanto. The woman spent time with journalists who were covering the Hardeman v Monsanto trial in San Francisco, pretending to do reporting while also suggesting to the real reporters certain storylines or points that favored Monsanto.

I wonder, if Monsanto/Bayer truly believes in the safety of their product why would they spend so much energy hiding and manipulating and otherwise being deceitful? Why would they fight so hard to avoid the truth, whatever it is, from seeing the light of day?

[ElysianWort]

Thanks for the message hikatz.

More from Tulsi on twitter about what Roundup is doing:

https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/...03?lang=en

https://twitter.com/tulsigabbard/status/...44?lang=en


Here from a local news source:

http://mauiindependent.org/tulsi-gabbard...s-roundup/

A few more dtails:

https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/pr...an-roundup

[ElysianWort]

why would they spend so much energy hiding and manipulating and otherwise being deceitful?

I have brought up this point early in this discussion about the company hiding behind their dollars using their own high money lawyers and scientist to obscure the truth. Just a reminder here.

Sickening facts in the read that Hikatz shared but not one bit surprising.

[Obie]

All of your links are to opinion articles. How about some from Scientists ?

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/...ay-claims/

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/...-verdicts/