The Monsanto Papers: The Secret Tactics Monsanto Used to Protect Roundup – Its Star Product
Four Corners (ABC) 2018
Film Review
This is an Australian documentary about a long history of deceptive tactics by Monsanto to conceal the link between the herbicide Roundup and non-Hodgkins lymphoma – known in Australian medical circles as farmer’s lymphoma.
The film centers around Dwayne Johnson’s $289 million award in a California lawsuit against Monsanto. Johnson was a groundskeeper who developed aggressive (and fatal) non-Hodgkins lymphoma after two years of routine spraying with Roundup. Legal analysts believe his victory stemmed mainly from secret documents the court ordered Monsanto to release. They reveal that Monsanto knew that Roundup was potentially carcinogenic and did everything possible to cover it up.
In her book Whitewash, investigative journalist Carey Gillam documents two instances in the 80’s and 90’s in which labs Monsanto used were caught falsifying data about Roundup’s alleged safety. When the EPA followed up with studies showing Roundup to be “possibly” carcinogenic, Monsanto lobbyists forced them to Alter their findings to “not likely” carcinogenic.
Then in 2003, Monsanto’s own chief toxicologist sent an email to his superiors maintaining the company couldn’t rightly assert that Roundup was non-carcinogenic because they had failed to undertake the appropriate studies. At the same time Monsanto lobbyists effectively blocked EPA efforts to conduct an independent review of Roundup’s potential link to cancer.
The saddest part of the film is the various Australian and US farmers interviewed who believe all the PR hype Monsanto (now Bayer-Monsanto) has been spouting and continue to risk their own lives and those of their families and consumers who eat the crops they produce. Bayer-Monsanto’s slick PR team (featured in the film) have totally convinced them the lawsuit they lost in California was merely a fluke, thanks to the state’s “treehugging” juries.
At present Bayer-Monsanto faces more than 9,000 lawsuits for cancer and other serious health problems related to Roundup.
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See also:
„Monsanto and Bayer: A Long Intertwined History Between US Capital and German Capital – Who´ll eat Whom?“ https://wipokuli.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/monsanto-and-bayer-a-long-intertwined-history-between-us-capital-and-german-capital-wholl-eat-whom/
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Good link. Thanks Schluter.
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Glyphosate residues are involved in vaccine production and contamination: consider the implications of the ‘legal’ ingredients, as listed in the Codex Alimentarius of the United Nations, which governs Pesticide Residues allowed in foods.
Vaccines are grown within eggs, which are legally allowed five parts per million of Glyphosate residue. The primary countries where vaccines are produced, Brazil, India, and the USA, all use Glyphosate, & Roundup.
Since Glyphosate is an artificial Amino Acid, it can fit into the growing proteins, mistakenly in place of one of the hundreds of Amino Acids that link all protein chains. Vaccine mutation may explain the random, but dangerous effects reported from inoculation; these reports have increased as the use of Glyphosate and Roundup have permeated crops.
Please consider the implications to vaccine safety, and a simple solution: using organic ingredients to grow vaccines. Inoculations could be safer.
http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/codex-texts/dbs/pestres/pesticide-detail/en/?p_id=158
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Thanks yogazeal. To be honest, I think the entire rationale behind vaccines needs to be re-examined, especially for viral illnesses.
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I don’t want to quibble, but if we get the word out about Monsanto poison mutating vaccines, that alone will knock them out of business.
Vaccine law and technology is a larger challenge, and less critical to ‘safe vaccines’ – I think we could lose that long, larger battle, and I personally would be delighted to see Monsanto brought to justice in the short term.
Glyphosate poisoning of the best farmlands in USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, India, China, Australia and New Zealand would end (already too late….)
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