LAWSUITS NEWS & LEGAL INFORMATION
Monsanto RoundUp Lawyer Interviews
Not-Ready-for-Market Herbicide Kills Farmers’ Crops
July 26, 2017. By Brenda Craig.
St. Louis, MO A group of seven farmers are the lead plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit that claims “corporate greed” and “a rush to market” by some of the world’s biggest makers and promoters of agricultural chemicals caused farm crops to wither and die costing farm operators millions of dollars in lost revenue and possibly forcing them to switch all their seed stock to herbicide resistant Monsanto seed in the coming years whether they want to or not.
Read [ Not-Ready-for-Market Herbicide Kills Farmers’ Crops ]
Monsanto Loses Labelling Battle in California – Tentatively
February 3, 2017. By Brenda Craig.
Fresno, CA: Opponents and families involved in lawsuits against the makers of the chemical herbicide known as Roundup are hailing a “tentative decision” by a California judge based on written arguments to allow glyphosate to be added to the “list of chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer” under California’s Proposition 65 (Prop 65). Prop 65 makes it mandatory for the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), a division of the California Environment Protection Agency, to list all known cancer causing chemicals.
Read [ Monsanto Loses Labelling Battle in California – Tentatively ]