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Monsanto/Bayer: Is it going down?It’s all over the news! Finally! After less than two full days of deliberations, a California jury ordered Monsanto/Bayer to pay just over $2 billion in punitive and compensatory damages to a married couple who both developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma they say was caused by their many years of...
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Glyphosate Causes Serious Multi-Generational Health Damage to Rats – New WSU StudyThis article originally created by Sustainable Pulse Washington State University (WSU) researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring of rats exposed to glyphosate, the world’s most used weed killer. In the first study of i...
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RoundUp, The Latest Good, Bad, and UglyWe have been talking, sharing and writing about RoundUp’s active ingredient, glyphosate, for several years. So what is the latest on RoundUp and glyphosate-based herbicides? Is glyphosate use diminishing? Are we finding less of it in our water, soil and food? There are some good, bad and ...
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Way To Go CostcoIt’s now confirmed that Costco will stop selling RoundUp and glyphosate-based herbicides this Spring. This is huge news and we are hopeful that Lowe’s and Home Depot will be next. Costco’s is the largest buyer of organic foods in the country and in making this move to stop sel...
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Arsenic in RoundUp. It’s Not Just the Glyphosate.We know that glyphosate the active ingredient in RoundUp, and the many other glyphosate-based herbicides, have been found to have many detrimental health effects to humans, animals, and the environment. What happens when you throw arsenic and other heavy metals into that mixture? Professor Gilles...
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It’s Not All Bad NewsIt’s been an interesting week in the news and for a change some of it is good news. Recently, the trial of Dwayne “Lee” Johnson v. Monsanto awarded the plaintiff, Lee Johnson $289 million in damages ($250 million in punitive damages). During the trial, the first of its kind, t...
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What is Making Our Kids Sick? A Panel DiscussionThe National Heirloom Expo took place in Santa Rosa, California last week. I had the the honor of moderating a panel at this event with the esteemed, Dr. Don Huber a scientist, Zen Honeycutt of Moms Across America, and Dr. Michelle Perro, a pediatrician from Marin County. The title of our talk wa...
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Johnson Wins in Johnson v MonsantoWe are so happy to announce that the verdict was just read in the Johnson v. Monsanto case. After an 8 week trial, the jury returned the verdict and Johnson WON! Plaintiff DeWayne Lee Johnson sued Monsanto for damages and negligence for failing to properly warn about its weedkiller RoundUp and Ra...
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Plaintiff Johnson Testifies in Landmark Monsanto TrialOn Monday morning, July 23, the jury in Johnson vs. Monsanto heard testimony from Dr. Ope Ofodile, the Plaintiff Dewayne “Lee” Johnson’s dermatologist. Dr. Ofodile described beginning her treatment of Lee in 2014, shortly after Lee was diagnosed with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Her affection for L...
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Trial of The Century: Johnson v. MonsantoMonday, July 9, 2018 in the San Francisco County Superior Court, opening arguments were presented in the Johnson v. Monsanto trial. Dewayne “Lee” Johnson, 46, a former groundskeeper for the Benicia Unified School District, is accusing Monsanto of hiding evidence over the past two decades that gly...
