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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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