BREAKING: French Court Rules Monsanto Guilty Of Chemical Poisoning
September 13, 2015 by Amanda FroelichMonsanto was found guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer by a French court earlier this week.
Credit: Jurist.org
When a court in southeast France found Monsanto guilty of chemically poisoning farmers in 2012, the biotech company fought tooth and nail for the conviction to be reversed. One can understand why: the court declared in that ruling that Monsantos Lasso weedkiller was responsible for devastating neurological problems, including memory loss.
But after an appeal process by Monsanto which lasted for years, a French appeal court recently upheld the ruling in full.
This news is monumental for a number of reasons: First, never before in French history has chemical poisoning by Monsantos Lasso weedkiller been confirmed. While it was banned in France in 2007 (after already being pulled off the market by other nations), this matter centered around a French farmer who had been exposed to the deadly concoction.
Grain grower Paul Francois took Monsanto to court back in 2012, stating that he developed neurological problems such as memory loss and headaches after being exposed to the weedkiller in 2004. He was rightly upset that Monsanto failed to provide proper warnings on the product label and was left to suffer from the consequences of the poison.
The French court ordered an expert opinion to determine the sum of the damages, as well as to verify the link between Lasso and the reported illnesses. The case could not be more important, for previous legal action taken against Monsanto by farmers failed due to the inability to properly link pesticide exposure with the degenerative side effects.
Francois said to Reuters:
I am alive today, but part of the farming population is going to be sacrificed and is going to die because of this.
The farmers persistent efforts have paid off, thankfully. As IB Times reports, Monsanto, the worlds largest seed company, was found guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer by a French court this week. The decision Thursday by an appeal court in Lyon in southeast France upheld a 2012 ruling in which the farmer claimed he suffered neurological problems after working with the U.S. companys Lasso weedkiller.
The world is waking up to the dangers posed by Monsanto, and it wont be long before the biotech company is forced to pay for its greedy ambitions.
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Archae
(46,345 posts)Bullshit conspiracy theory website.
Fox News Deleted Report In Wake Of 9/11: Israeli Spies Could Be Linked To Attacks
http://www.trueactivist.com/fox-news-deleted-report-in-wake-of-911-israeli-spies-could-be-linked-to-attacks/
polly7
(20,582 posts)This isn't new news, by any means.
People, including physicians, farmers, researchers, etc. .... and gov'ts from around the world have been proving and sharing the negative effects of these chemicals for a long, long time.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)And there is no excuse for using that page. "It's not news" is just not a viable justification.
polly7
(20,582 posts)from sources all around the world.
Yes, it is news whenever any person or group - including farmers who've used these chemicals for decades without knowing the full consequences and who are now suffering, have their concerns validated ... especially if their own gov't listens, determines they're right, and takes action like this.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 15, 2015, 02:05 PM - Edit history (1)
That doesn't make it right.
BTW, do you know that French courts aren't much different than Italian courts that put scientists in prison for failing to predict an earthquake? Yes, they've given their nod to a claim for a "wifi allergy."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-34075146
polly7
(20,582 posts)I went through each link just to be sure.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)If not, what claims of hers do you not support?
polly7
(20,582 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)So answer the question.
polly7
(20,582 posts)yes, I do support everything I post. I've read the studies, watched what gov'ts all around the world are now saying and agree with them. Poison chemicals cause health problems - severe health problems. What's your biggest problem with that?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Again, do you support Vandana Shiva's claims?
polly7
(20,582 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Do you support all its claims?
polly7
(20,582 posts)Why are you trying so hard to derail away from it? I'm smelling desperation ....
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Then you defended the source.
Discussion tends to flow. I guess yoiu don't want to go with the flow.
Why is that? Perhaps your claim that you can support anything you post is not so viable?
Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Can you support everything that movie claims?
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HuckleB
(35,773 posts)I never said it wasn't news. Perhaps you should read my posts before responding, especially if you're going to play the shill gambit, or call me names and accuse me of finding Fox a legitimate source. You should know better.
Another source was already posted, and the fact that its verbage was quite different from that in the OP was noted. If you find the source in the OP legitimate, perhaps you should take some time to consider that as a possible problem.
Ethics matter.
Archae
(46,345 posts)Get back to me when you actually have something credible.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Get back to me when you can disprove all the linked studies and show me that what these farmers are claiming wrt their horrible health problems isn't true.
Archae
(46,345 posts)That's how science works.
Almost all those links go back to the OP website anyway.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Based on the results of many studies. I didn't do those studies ......... researchers did. Why the angry, personal stuff?
Archae
(46,345 posts)As HuckleB pointed out.
Courts are not conducive to science, as we've seen with courts giving out big awards to kids who "got autism from vaccines" or people who "got cancer from their cell phone."
polly7
(20,582 posts)all of the studies done wrt these poison chemicals and their effects on people all around the world might help you out. You should do a bit of reading, imo.
Archae
(46,345 posts)polly7
(20,582 posts)I guess, if it were you suffering from neurological or kidney or any of the other problems associated with these chemicals it might be a different story?
marmar
(77,090 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)TBF
(32,090 posts)I've read right here on DU that Monsanto is "science" and if you don't believe in them you are "anti-science" and an "anti-vaxxer". True Story.
polly7
(20,582 posts)Bless their little hearts.
TBF
(32,090 posts)I suppose ...
😎
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)If not, cool. Still, the shill gambit attack is not ok.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)I posted above the cartoon of a Monsanto "Mad Scientist."
Thanks to the organic industry's propaganda, this is what people think of when they see "organic" in a store.
This is the reality.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Except for the fact that they are guilty of conspiring to commit genocide with their war chemicals.
dougolat
(716 posts)...of the despicable DARK act is PROGRESS!
TBF
(32,090 posts)Monsanto has called the IARC findings "junk science," as the findings differ from the assessment of regulatory agencies in the U.S. and EU. However, IARC, unlike the regulatory agencies, looks at all the available studies in the scientific literature and does not ignore or downplay studies performed on the formulated product and/or which do not follow narrow testing protocols.
The response to IARC's findings in other parts of the world was immediate. Colombia halted the spraying of glyphosate as part of their coca eradication program. Bermuda and Sri Lanka banned imports of glyphosate products, and Germany's state consumer protection ministers called for "the supply to and use by private persons to be banned for precautionary reasons."
Michael Hansen, Ph.D
Senior Scientist with Consumers Union
Monsanto, RoundUp and Junk Science
Posted: 05/29/2015 10:48 pm EDT Updated: 06/01/2015 1:00 pm EDT
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hansen-phd/monsanto-roundup-and-junk-science_b_7473736.html
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Consumers Union Makes False Claims Against the Safety of Genetically Modified Foods Based On Ideology Not Science
http://www.innovationfiles.org/consumers-union-makes-false-claims-against-the-safety-of-genetically-modified-foods-based-on-ideology-not-science/
So, hmm. Consumer reports' anti-GMO "scientist," says... OK, then.
And then there's the silliness around the hyperbole of the IARC statement.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/roundup-and-risk-assessment
Isn't it time to stop pushing extreme claims? Can you tell us which organic herbicides have lower LD50s than glyphosate?
TBF
(32,090 posts)Archae
(46,345 posts)Did they post an article about a "Jewish plot" on 9-11, like the website in the OP?
Do they rely on reporting a court decision, that is suspect at best?
TBF
(32,090 posts)gee I wonder who funds them?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 15, 2015, 09:28 PM - Edit history (1)
Hmmmmmm.
Archae
(46,345 posts)I had a BIG problem with the source in the OP, it took me less than a minute to find the anti-Jewish conspiracy theory on that website.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Our friend, of course, has not come back to defend his/her defenseless stance. I'm shocked.
Archae
(46,345 posts)TBF
(32,090 posts)when all else fails make something up.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)TBF
(32,090 posts)you cannot disown the fact that you are citing a publication from a neo-liberal think tank supported by all the usual corporate sponsors. That's fine - it's very clear which side you are on. There are the corporations (and their owners) and there are the ordinary people.
In contrast I was raised in a family comprised of union members who worked in factories and family farmers (nearly all out of business at this point because they can't compete against the corporate groups like Monsanto). I don't expect to agree with you and frankly it's surprising we're even posting on the same website. It just goes to show what has happened to the democratic party in the past 1/2 century. We've been invaded. That may not make any "sense" to you but to most of us it's crystal clear. Let me be perfectly clear: we're not voting for your corporate candidates. And we're not supporting companies that are poisoning us in the name of profit.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)That is not the case with the majority of your posts, at least on this thread.
TBF
(32,090 posts)Your defense of Monsanto shows EXACTLY who you are no matter what you call yourself on this website.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)It's quite interesting, in a really depressing way.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)You can't respond to the actual evidence, so you bash the source, after utilizing Consumer Reports as a source, of all things, yourself.
And then you ignore the second science-based piece from the New Yorker completely.
Meanwhile, you have failed to support your earlier claims on this same OP.
Hmmmmmm.
PS: http://www.crediblehulk.org/index.php/2015/06/02/about-those-more-caustic-herbicides-that-glyphosate-helped-replace-by-credible-hulk/
TBF
(32,090 posts)you are confusing me with the OP. But the bashing always begins when we don't agree 100% with whatever Monsanto says. Why is that?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)That explains a lot.
And, as with your other responses, you fail to respond to the majority of the content of the post to which you theoretically took time to respond, uh, to...
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 15, 2015, 07:16 PM - Edit history (1)
http://www.crediblehulk.org/index.php/2015/06/02/about-those-more-caustic-herbicides-that-glyphosate-helped-replace-by-credible-hulk/arikara
(5,562 posts)/sarcasm and a BIG K&R
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