MONSANTO SO IS FACING A CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT
WHICH HAS BEEN FILED BY 800 CANCER PATIENTS.
THEY ARE PART
OF THIS CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT AND THEY ARE SUING MONSANTO, THE
MAKER OF ROUNDUP CLAIMING THE COMPANY FAILED TO WARN CONSUMERS
ABOUT THE RISK OF CANCER ASSOCIATED WITH ROUNDUP
PRODUCTS.
THIS IS A REALLY FASCINATING STORY BECAUSE KEEP
IN MIND THAT MUNSON SO GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS IN
ORDER TO WITHSTAND ROUNDUP AND THAT WAS ALWAYS SUPER SUSPICIOUS
TO ME BECAUSE IT IS NOT ABOUT GENETICALLY MODIFYING PLANTS OR
CROPS, IT IS ABOUT WHY YOU WOULD WANT TO DO SO.
WHY WOULD YOU
WANT TO USE A PRODUCT THAT IS SO TOXIC THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO GO
OUT OF YOUR WAY TO GENETICALLY MODIFY IT.
THEY ALWAYS SAID IT
IS SAFE, THERE'S NO PROBLEM EXCEPT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE
EXPOSED TO IT AT HIGHER LEVELS ALL SOMEHOW GOT NON-HOP
SKINS LYMPHOMA.
THEY DIDN'T ALL GET IT OF COURSE, BUT A LOT OF THEM GOT IT
AND WHAT MONSANTO TURNS AROUND AND SAYS IS YOU CAN'T PROVE IT.
HOW DO I KNOW.
MAYBE COINCIDENTALLY YOU GUYS ALL GOT
IT FOR A DIFFERENT REASON.
THAT IS SUPER HARD TO PROVE.
BY THE
WAY THAT IS WHY YOU HAVE LAWSUITS THAT YOU GET TO PRESENT
YOUR SIDE AND MONSANTO HAS AN ARMY OF LAWYERS AND OTHER
GUYS GETS IT PRESENTED NUTS HOW WE ADJUDICATE THINGS THAT
THEY LIKE DON'T SUE US.
LAMY GIVEN THE DETAILS ON WHAT IS GOING ON AND WHEN I SAID
THEY ALL GOT THIS CONDITION, I MEANT THAT INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE
JOINED THE CLASS-ACTION LAWSUIT, NOT EVERYBODY HAS BEEN EXPOSED
TO IT.
MONTHS UNTIL SAYS THERE'S NO PROOF THAT LIFE ARE
SAINT IS CARCINOGENIC.
THAT IS THE CHEMICAL IN QUESTION
CHEMICAL IN QUESTION HERE.
IN FACT, IT CITES A REPORT BY THE
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCIES CANCER ASSESSMENT
REVIEW COMMITTEE THAT SAID THAT THIS CHEMICAL IS NOT LIKELY TO
BE CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS.
ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT SOMEONE WHO
WAS WORKING WITHIN THE EPA AT THE TIME THAT THE STATEMENT WAS
RELEASED HAD VERY COZY TIES TO MONSANTO.
THAT IS AN ONGOING
THEME THAT YOU NOTICE WITH MONSANTO AND HOW DO WE KNOW IT?
WE KNOW WHAT THEIR EMAILS THAT SOMEHOW WE HAVE ACCESS TO THAT
INDICATE THAT THEY HAD THE COZY RELATIONSHIP AND ALSO THAT
THEY WERE WORKING WITH SCIENTISTS IN ORDER TO
MANIPULATE OUTCOMES OF CERTAIN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
BY THE WAY, WHEN THEY SAY THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT IS
CARCINOGENIC, THAT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
IN MARCH 2014 THE
RESEARCH ON CANCER AGENCY SAID IT IS PROBABLY CARCINOGENIC TO
HUMANS.
THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER REPORTS IN 2016 AS WELL AND IT
GOES BACK AND FORTH.
IF YOU ARE A RATIONAL HUMAN BEING AND A
GIANT MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR CORPORATION SAYS DON'T WORRY, I
PAID A BUNCH OF SCIENTISTS AND THEY AGREE WITH ME YOU KNOW TO
DISCOUNT THAT, RIGHT?
PLEASE KNOW ME PLEASE TELL ME YOU KNOW
THAT.
IF THEY HAVE NEUTRAL SCIENTISTS THAT HAVE REPORT SAYING IT
IS NOT CARCINOGENIC THAT IS INTERESTING AND THAT IS WHY
WE GO TO COURT AND FIGURE IT OUT.
EXACTLY.
JUST TO BE CLEAR, THERE IS SOME EVIDENCE AS OF NOW
AGAINST MONSANTO THAT I THINK IS INTERESTING ESPECIALLY THAT
THEIR EMAILS AND THAT INDICATE THEY WANTED TO MANIPULATE THE
RESULTS OF THE STUDIES I THINK THAT IS SUPER SUSPICIOUS BUT AT
THE SAME TIME YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU NEED TO PREVENT CORN AS OF NOW,
IT HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN BY JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU GUYS THE FACT
THAT WE HAVE AT THE MOMENT.
THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S
INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCERS CAUSED A
STIR IN MARCH 2015 WHEN IT SAID THAT LIFE ARE SAINT IS PROBABLY
CARCINOGENIC TO HUMANS MEETING A CAN'T LEAD TO CANCER.
THE
LAWYER WHO IS REPRESENTING THESE PATIENTS AND THIS OF THE
FOLLOWING THAT WE'RE NOT ALLEGING THAT OUR CLIENTS GOT
FROM THIS CANCER FROM THIS CHEMICAL ALONE.
WE ARE SUING
BECAUSE OUR CLIENTS GOT CANCER FROM ROUNDUP.
RATHER CONTAINS
ANIMAL FACTS AND OTHER INGREDIENTS THAT INCREASE THE
CARCINOGENIC PROPERTY OF THIS CHEMICAL.
THAT IS INTERESTING.
THAT IS ANOTHER THING THAT NEEDS TO BE PROVEN BUT MONSANTO
STRESSES THAT THE INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON
CANCER REPORT DOES NOT ESTABLISH A LINK BETWEEN THE CHEMICAL
AND AN INCREASE IN CANCER.
THEY GO BACK AND FORTH ON THIS, BUT THE FOLKS TO HAVE
CANCER.
A LOT OF THEM HAVE CANCER.
AND THEY WERE EXPOSED AROUND UP.
LET ME GO THROUGH SOME OF
MONSANTO'S EXCUSES.
AND THEIR DIFFERENT TACTICS.
TACTIC
NUMBER ONE AND THIS IS NOT JUST MONSANTO, ANY COMPANY CHARGED IN
A CASE LIKE THIS, THEIR NUMBER ONE EXCUSE IS YOU DON'T KNOW IT
FOR SURE.
MAYBE ALL THOSE PEOPLE GOT CANCER, THERE'S
ANOTHER CASE IN ARKANSAS WHERE THEY ARE BY A RIVER AND THERE IS
A COMPANY THAT IS LEAKING STEFAN TO THE RIVER AND THERE IS AN
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CANCER FOR PEOPLE BY THE RIVER AND THEIR
LIKE YOU KNOW FOR SURE, HE COULD'VE BEEN THE BIRTH OF THE
FLOWERS IS SOMETHING ELSE.
YOU DON'T KNOW, HA HA.
IF WE AGREED
TO THAT CONCEPT THEN THEY COULD LEAK ANYTHING THEY WANT.
THEY
COULD MAKE IT AS CARCINOGENIC AS THEY WANT AND THEN SAY SINCE YOU
CAN'T PROVE IT HUNDRED AND 28% THAT IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT LED TO
THEIR CANCER THEN I WENT AND I CAN DO ANYTHING I WANT BUT THAT
IS NOT HOW IT WORKS.
YOU GO TO COURT AND THE JURY AND/OR THE
JUDGE DECIDES AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
A LOT OF TIMES THEY RULE AGAINST
THESE COMPANIES BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT OF COURSE, IT IS PROVABLE
ENOUGH, RIGHT?
YOU CAN TRACE HOW THE PEOPLE WERE GNOSTIC BEFORE,
THEY ARE SICK AFTER A CERTAIN TIME AND IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH
EVIDENCE THEN OBVIOUSLY YOU WHEN THE CASE.
NUMBER TWO THING THAT THEY DO IS THEY GHOSTWRITE REPORTS.
CAN GIVE YOU THE DETAILS ON THIS.
I WANT TO GIVE YOU
SPECIFIC DETAILS.
A MONTH BEFORE THE I ARC REPORT CAME ON 2015,
MONSANTO EXECUTIVE WILLIAM HAYDEN SENT INTERNAL EMAIL TO
COMPANY TOXICOLOGIST DONNA FARBER.
IN THE EMAIL, HE
SUGGESTED GHOSTWRITING PARTS OF AN OVERALL PLAUSIBILITY PAPER TO
SAVE MONEY.
HE CONTINUES TO SAY IF WE WENT FULL BORE WITH
EXPERTS, WE COULD BE PUSHING $250,000 OR MAYBE EVEN MORE.
LESS EXPENSIVE, MORE PALATABLE APPROACH MIGHT BE TO INVOLVE
EXPERTS ONLY FOR SOME OF THE LESS CONTENTIOUS PARTS OF THE
REPORT.
THEN MONSANTO WOULD GHOSTWRITE THE EXPOSURE TOX
AND GENETOX SECTIONS.
I AM NOT PUTTING WORDS IN HIS MOUTH.
I JUST READ VERBATIM WHAT WAS IN HIS EMAIL.
WHAT WOULD BE PALATABLE IS IF WE JUST WROTE IT SAYING IT IS
SAFE AND ONLY BROUGHT IN EXPERTS ON STUFF THAT IS NOT
CONTROVERSIAL.
THAT WOULD BE PALATABLE FOR MONSANTO'S
INTEREST IN GUYS YOU KNOW THIS RIGHT?
CORPORATIONS ARE BUILT TO
MASS MAXIMIZE PROFITS.
THEY ARE NOT HERE TO WORRY ABOUT YOUR
HEALTH.
THEY ARE NOT HERE TO WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING THAT AFFECT
THE COMMUNITY, THEY WANT TO MAXIMIZE THE PROFIT.
WILL THEY
HIRE SCIENTISTS, DO YOU THINK THERE'S ANY CHANCE OF THE
SCIENTISTS MONSANTO HIRED GOING TO COME ON SAY OH MY GOD,
IT'S REALLY CARCINOGENIC.
YOU GUYS HAVE TO STOP MAKING ALL THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF
DOLLARS OF THIS PRODUCT ARE.
JUST HOW THE COKE BROTHERS HIRE SCIENTISTS TO DO RESEARCH
ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THEN COME OUT WITH THE OUTCOME THAT
CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT HAPPENING AND IT IS NOT MAN-MADE.
BY THE WAY, THERE'S ANOTHER REASON WHY GO TO COURT.
EXXON
MOBIL AND ALL THIS OTHER COMPANY SAY NO, OUR SINUSES SAY THAT
CLIMATE CHANGES IN HAPPENING AND THEN ONCE YOU DO SOME REQUEST
FOR DOCUMENTS YOU FIND INTERNAL MEMOS ASSAYED IS STEADILY
HAPPENING, LET'S FIGURE OUT HOW TO HIDE IT.
LET'S SEE WHAT
HAPPENS.
THE THIRD THING THAT HAPPENS WHICH I DIDN'T KNOW
ABOUT AND I HAVE SEEN THIS, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE SOURCE
WAS.
THAT IT WAS LEGIT.
WHENEVER YOU TALK ABOUT MONSANTO
OR GM OWES, YOU WILL GET A FLURRY OF ATTACKS ON MINE AND
THEY WILL SAY YOU ARE ANTI-SCIENCE AND YOU ARE
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS AND I THOUGHT THOSE PEOPLE ARE
KIND OF RILED UP, THAT IS INTERESTING THAT THEY CARE
SO MUCH ABOUT THIS.
ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE LIKE US YOU ARE CERTAINLY NOT
ANTI-SCIENCE AND WE LOVE SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENTS.
IT CAUSES YOU TO STOP AND THINK FOR A SECOND, DID I MISS
SOMETHING?
SOMETIMES YOU COME ACROSS COMMENTS THAT ARE NEGATIVE
BUT CONSTRUCTIVE SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO LOOK INTO A
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE BUT THEN YOU DO SOME DIGGING AND YOU
ARE LIKE NO, THERE IS SOME WRONGDOING HERE BASED ON
THESE INTERNAL MEMOS AND SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY AND BEHAVIOR
BY THESE EXECUTIVES THAT MONSANTO.
THE SOMETHING SHADY GOING ON BUT WHAT THEY DO IS THEY USE
THE SAME TYPE OF TACTICS THAT ARE US POLITICIANS USE.
THEY HIRE TROLLS AND BOTS AND THEY GO AHEAD AND ATTACK
PEOPLE WHO HAD THE AUDACITY TO CRITICIZE THEM IN THE
BEHAVIOR THAT WE JUST LAID OUT FOR YOU GUYS.
I DIDN'T KNOW THIS UNTIL WAS JUST REVEALED.
TURNS OUT THERE
PAYING TROLLS TO SAY THAT STUFF ONLINE.
IF YOU ARE A PERSON WHO
EARNESTLY BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE FIGHTING AGAINST, WHAT ARE YOU
SURE YOU WERE INFLUENCED BY THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID TO DO THAT
IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO GET TOUCHY ABOUT
THAT AND SAY NO, I AM INDEPENDENT AND I'M SURE, I'M
NOT SURE, I GUESS THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE WHO EARNESTLY
BELIEVED IT BUT NOW, THEY'VE RUINED YOUR CREDIBILITY TO
BECAUSE IT TURNS OUT THEY WERE PAYING EVERYONE ELSE IN SO NOW
WHEN YOU SEE AN ONLINE, AND THEY ARTIE DO IT ON FACEBOOK, SOCIAL
MEDIA, ALL OVER THE INTERNET, AND JUST LIKE THAT DAVID BROCK
SKIPPED DINNER DURING THE CAMPAIGN AND CHUMS PEOPLE TODAY
DURING THE GENERAL ELECTION.
THERE PAYING PEOPLE TO PUT OUR
COMMENTS GOING KNOW, MONSANTO IS RIGHT.
IF YOU'RE ATTACKING
MONSANTO OR CONCERNED ABOUT GM AS A CANCER, YOU DON'T KNOW
SCIENCE.
SCIENCE IS AWESOME.
THAT'S MAKE US BETTER MIXES
POSITIVELY AGREED TO SCIENCES AWESOME.
WE ARE TOTALLY PRO
FACTS.
IT'S ALL A TRICK.
THEY ARE PRETENDING TO BE IN FAVOR OF
SCIENCE TO PUSH THEIR CORPORATE AGENDA IN THAT CASE.
THE WHERE
PEOPLE TELLING YOU ONLINE HOW THE TRUE SCIENTIFIC POSITION IS
TO BE PRO-GM OWES, PRO MONSANTO AND PRO THESE CHEMICALS THEY ARE
PUTTING IN THEIR THAT THEY SAY, THEY CLAIM COINCIDENTALLY PEOPLE
GOT CANCER FROM BUT THEY DIDN'T GET IT FROM US, THEY JUST HAPPEN
TO COINCIDENTALLY GET IN THE GENERAL AREA BUT IF YOU
SAID THEY DID I'M GOING TO SEND MY TROLLS AFTER YOU.
THIS IS THE RULE OF THUMB WITH EVERY ISSUE THAT IS
CONTROVERSIAL.
DON'T BELIEVE US, DON'T BELIEVE MONSANTO, YOU ARE A SMART PERSON
AND YOU HAVE EVERY IMAGINABLE RESOURCE AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.
DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE TROLLS OR
ANYTHING, JUST TRUST YOURSELF.