I am Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life
and I'd like to comment on a recent
lawsuit that was filed against Monsanto
for causing cancer and in this case
there was a school employee who had been
spraying roundup around the school 20 to
30 times per year and the jury decided
unanimously that roundup was a
significant causative factor in his
cancer so much that he was awarded two
hundred and eighty nine million dollars
he may only have a few months to live
unfortunately but at least his family
would be taken care of but this is an
important milestone in this type of
lawsuit because it's the first time
since the tobacco companies were brought
to trial that a huge company has been
found guilty of something like this and
as a result this may just be the first
step there may be thousands reportedly
anywhere from four to eight thousand
people with similar lawsuits waiting in
the background and it is a good thing
that there is there's significant
pressure being put on these companies
because they are causing damage and they
should not be allowed to cause damage
and kill people and hurt people and make
people sick without consequences it was
found that they acted with malice and
oppression that they knowingly
suppressed risks the World Health
Organization stated that that roundup
and glyphosate was a probable carcinogen
as early as 2015. Monsanto has been
employing ghost riders they have been
publishing papers as a deceptive tactic
to confuse the issue and to make it seem
like this is not a big deal so what is
this all about
well the case is important but there's a
lot at stake here for all of us for
every single person on the planet
because herbicides and roundup is an
herbicide it's a weed killer it's a
poison and before GMO
the weed killers would kill both the
weeds and the plants for the most part
so they couldn't use a whole lot of them
but since Monsanto developed GMOs that
were glyphosate resistant now they could
spray as much as they like they kill the
weeds but they won't kill the plants
that are grown from Monsanto's GMO seeds
and there is over 300 million pounds a
year of roundup used in the United
States alone there's like 10 million
pounds sorry 10 million tons used
worldwide since its its beginning so
this is almost a pound of poison per
person per year in this country so the
bigger implications of this is that it's
natural virtues unnatural that as
citizens of the planet we have a right
to choose whole natural safe life-giving
food and companies like Monsanto are are
tampering with nature they are they are
risking our right to do that nature
mother nature has spent eons to develop
safe blueprints safe genes safe
organisms ecosystems that all fit
together and now Monsanto is playing God
by tampering with a very blueprints of
life that's what GMOs are some people
are of the opinion that this is not a
big deal I'm not one of them I think
that nature is a whole lot smarter than
we give it credit for and I think
companies like this do a whole lot more
damage than then we give them credit for
so Bayer recently bought out Monsanto
Bayer is one of the largest
pharmaceutical companies in the world so
now we have a agricultural
pharmaceutical giant that controls
one-quarter of all the seeds in the
world so the seeds that's the food
supply so my suggestion
be that you read up on these issues that
you educate yourself that you make some
smart decisions on things that you can
do to preserve and ensure your future
right to choose safe foods I personally
would never touch a product from Bayer
or Monsanto I make very sure I'd read
the fine print and I would suggest that
you do the same if you feel like that's
the right thing to do after doing some
research so this is about a whole lot
more than a the verdict it's about a
whole lot more than a few weeds in your
driveway it's about the future of safe
food on the planet so please do your
research let me know what you find let
me know your opinions let me know if
there's some things that you have
changed that you have learned and some
other ways that maybe you can contribute
and help out the whole situation so let
me know and as always thanks for watching.
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