If you have been following the news with even a marginal sort of diligence then you have no doubt heard of glyphosate, the dangerous chemical used in Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller. You will also have been made aware of how dangerous this chemical is to our health and how ubiquitous it is in our everyday lives. It has contaminated our food supply, our water, and our environment. Fortunately, there are steps that you can take to protect yourself and your family from the cancer-causing, birth defect forming, kidney damaging, endocrine system disrupting chemical that is currently being foisted upon the public by the gallon.

The jury assigned to Mr. Johnson’s lawsuit wanted to punish the Monsanto corporation because they believed the company deliberately and actively withheld the fact that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular Herbicide known as Roundup, was a carcinogen from the public. The amount of the compensation that was awarded to Johnson indicates that the jury was not convinced by Monsanto’s expert witnesses. Product liability lawsuits are an increasingly popular part of the American lifestyle. There is no shortage of examples of companies that have knowingly added toxic ingredients to their products, so it is important that there is a process for the individuals who have been harmed to hold these corporations accountable.

On August 10th, 2018, a 46-year-old man named Dewayne Lee Johnson who is currently facing a terminal non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosis, won a monumental legal victory in a landmark case. Dewayne Johnson had used Monsanto’s Roundup as often as 30 times a year while he was employed as a landscaper for an entire California school district. The California jury determined that herbicide, developed and manufactured by chemical giant Monsanto, caused Mr. Johnson’s cancer and that the company neglected to warn him of the health hazards from repeated exposure to the weed killer’s main ingredient, glyphosate. The jury ordered Monsanto to pay Dewayne Johnson a grand total of $289 million.

Remember those old Life cereal commercials? “Mikey likes it!” Well, hopefully, Mikey has learned to be a touch more discriminating in his adult years because a recent study conducted by the Environmental Working Group found potentially unsafe amounts of the notorious herbicide glyphosate from Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer in a number of popular breakfast cereals […]

It is becoming increasingly common knowledge that several studies have linked glyphosate, the chemical used in the popular weed killer Roundup, to certain types of cancer. Finding out if Roundup exposure is what caused you to develop cancer can be tricky. How do you even begin to pinpoint the source of cancer? There are three […]