Post by Rickster on Jan 20, 2016 8:13:01 GMT -6
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"In October, Carey Gillam reported for Reuters that California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), has been accepting public comments about its intention to list glyphosate as a cause of cancer.
Roughly 8,000 comments were filed regarding the state action, according to officials, including those from Monsanto. Several farming, public health and environmental groups sent a letter to OEHHA supporting the listing, and said that rising use of glyphosate presents a danger to people and animals.
The OEHHA gave notice in September that it intended to list glyphosate under proposition 65, a state initiative enacted in 1986 to inform residents about cancer-causing chemicals. State officials said the action is required after the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research committee in March classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.
As we reported in March, the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times reported Monsanto’s call for the World Health Organisatglyphosate round upion’s cancer agency to retract a report published in the journal Lancet Oncology by researchers for WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer.
The WHO’s research unit, however, said it had reviewed many scientific studies, including two out of Sweden, one out of Canada and at least three in the United States before making its classification.
Since the WHO classification, the New York-based mass-tort firm of Weitz & Luxenberg, and other firms representing U.S. farm workers, have filed lawsuits against Monsanto, accusing the company of knowing of the dangers of glyphosate for decades. Monsanto has said the claims are without merit
Monsanto has now urged California not to list herbicide glyphosate as carcinogenic.
It added, in its formal comment, that California’s actions could be considered illegal because they are not considering valid scientific evidence."
Is there anyone these bastards won't attempt to intimidate? You would think taking on State Governments like California, the World Health Organization, or scientist they would eventually bite off more than they could chew but it remains to be seen. The question is how do they continue to get away with it? At this point as citizens of the republic we need to boycott every product we can that they produce and at some point hopefully we will break them.
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"In October, Carey Gillam reported for Reuters that California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), has been accepting public comments about its intention to list glyphosate as a cause of cancer.
Roughly 8,000 comments were filed regarding the state action, according to officials, including those from Monsanto. Several farming, public health and environmental groups sent a letter to OEHHA supporting the listing, and said that rising use of glyphosate presents a danger to people and animals.
The OEHHA gave notice in September that it intended to list glyphosate under proposition 65, a state initiative enacted in 1986 to inform residents about cancer-causing chemicals. State officials said the action is required after the World Health Organization’s (WHO) cancer research committee in March classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen.
As we reported in March, the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times reported Monsanto’s call for the World Health Organisatglyphosate round upion’s cancer agency to retract a report published in the journal Lancet Oncology by researchers for WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer.
The WHO’s research unit, however, said it had reviewed many scientific studies, including two out of Sweden, one out of Canada and at least three in the United States before making its classification.
Since the WHO classification, the New York-based mass-tort firm of Weitz & Luxenberg, and other firms representing U.S. farm workers, have filed lawsuits against Monsanto, accusing the company of knowing of the dangers of glyphosate for decades. Monsanto has said the claims are without merit
Monsanto has now urged California not to list herbicide glyphosate as carcinogenic.
It added, in its formal comment, that California’s actions could be considered illegal because they are not considering valid scientific evidence."
Is there anyone these bastards won't attempt to intimidate? You would think taking on State Governments like California, the World Health Organization, or scientist they would eventually bite off more than they could chew but it remains to be seen. The question is how do they continue to get away with it? At this point as citizens of the republic we need to boycott every product we can that they produce and at some point hopefully we will break them.