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Only after midnight on August 1, 2017, attorney Brent Wisner gave his legal team the go-alee to start publishing a series of internal memos and documents from the Monsanto corporation. The internal communications made clear that Monsanto—the company that created saccharine and went on to develop Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane and Amanuensis Orange—was not simply aware that contained scientific studies had found that its blockbuster weed killer, Roundup, and the chief ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, were probably carcinogenic and harmful to human being wellness, but the company had likewise tried to coffin the findings. The documents besides proved that Monsanto ghost-wrote scientific studies that suggested Roundup was safe (when the company knew information technology wasn't), paid experts to support those claims, pressured scientists to reverse their previous conclusions that glyphosate could be linked to cancer, and successfully lobbied regulators at the EPA to go on the bureau's own findings—that glyphosate was probably harmful to humans—nether wraps.

Decades of enquiry connected the weed killer to cancer. According to the internal documents Wisner and his team published, Monsanto—instead of doing the right thing and pulling the product off the market given all information technology knew—did everything in its power to cover it up.

"This is a part of a system where we allow money to wield influence in Washington, DC," Carey Gillam, author ofThe Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Abuse, and One Man's Search for Justice (Island Printing, 2021), toldSierra. "Scientists are trying to do the piece of work to protect public health, but if their research interferes with the turn a profit motives of a multibillion-dollar corporation, those scientists can encounter their work limited or even censored. Corporate influence digs deep."

The Monsanto Papers is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the dangers of glyphosate to human health and the decadent system of corporate and political influence that enabled Monsanto to sell its toxic weed killer for decades.

"The EPA has a long history of rubbing elbows with the companies that they regulate. The result is, profits go protected, and public health does not."

Wisner'south conclusion to release what became known as "The Monsanto Papers" is a pivotal moment in that story. The release of the documents resonated around the world and did exactly what Wisner intended: They turned what had been a years-long legal boxing for justice, fought behind closed doors, into an international awareness that tuned lawmakers and regulators around the world into the dangers of glyphosate. Monsanto had been trying to go along the case quiet and make it go abroad; Wisner was not going to let that happen.

Wisner is just ane of a fascinating bandage of legal characters in this gripping tale, and Gillam, a primary storyteller and investigative reporter, brings them to life in vivid particular. Chaser Mike Miller, of the Miller Law house, lives in the small town of Orange, Virginia, described as "the kind oftown where a busy lawyer could walk a couple of blocks for a quick lunch of deep-fried chicken livers and fabricated-from-scratch cornbread at the Land Cookin Café." Chaser Aimee Wagstaff "preferred jeans or sweats to business suits, rarely wore makeup, and frequently laced even coincidental conversations with strings of raw profanity and dark humor." Michael Baum, the managing partner of Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, drives a Jaguar, boogie boards in his spare time, and works in an function that "was a reflection of the fact that Michael was one function harried lawyer and ane role crumbling hippie."

These and many other legal aides and tort lawyers somewhen collaborate, pool resources, and come up together to try to deliver justice on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs who claimed that exposure to Monsanto's herbicide had caused their cancer. Thanks to Gillam, we get the insider account of how it all happened.

All the same in spite of these many colorful characters—and the Monsanto lawyers against whom their inveterate chess match is meticulously waged—it is their piece of work on behalf of one man in particular that persists as the magnetic lodestone of this tragic story: schoolhouse groundskeeper Dewayne "Lee" Johnson. Johnson, thank you to this eclectic team of lawyers, became the first plaintiff to score a legal victory against Monsanto for selling and marketing glyphosate products. In 2018, with just months left to live according to his doctors, Johnson won a staggering sum of $289.5 1000000 in punitive damages (he and his family have yet to actually receive that money from the visitor), which pushed "Go" for thousands of other plaintiffs to seek retribution.

Johnson was doused with a generic version of Roundup, chosen Ranger Pro, in a freak accident while at work. Not long later on that, he began noticing what looked like a rash on his skin. In 2014, he was diagnosed with a debilitating form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma; by then, lesions and bumps the size of BB pellets covered his face and body. Before long, Johnson—a one time almost homeless homo who had since worked his way to a middle-course lifestyle, making a five-figure salary that helped support his family, and now wore a "Blessings for the righteous" tattoo on his forearm to mark the path—was fighting for his life.

Johnson's diagnosis came some xl years after Monsanto first introduced its weed-killing glyphosate chemical to the market. In the early on 2000s, Monsanto rolled out genetically modified "Roundup Set up" corn, soybean, and cotton wool seeds that were impervious to the weed killer, which led farmers to saturate their fields with the herbicide, exposing millions to the chemical. Every bit nosotros learn from Gillam'due south careful re-cosmos of the history, decades of inquiry showed that the production was linked to cancer, and that Monsanto knew of those studies. But when Johnson received his diagnosis, those facts were the stuff of corporate secrets Monsanto kept subconscious.

It wasn't until Tim Litzenburg from the Miller Firm took on Johnson's instance, and Wisner, who later took over for Litzenburg, published "The Monsanto Papers" (following a contentious back-and-forth with the company during a discovery procedure), that Johnson knew the truth of why he was dying, and who was responsible.

"Scientists are trying to do the work to protect public health, but if their research interferes with the profit motives of a multibillion-dollar corporation, those scientists can run into their piece of work limited or even censored. Corporate influence digs deep."

As with her previous bookWhitewash, Gillam—who was 1 of the first journalists to receive and report on "The Monsanto Papers" after months of bulldog reporting on glyphosate—is out to expose non simply a couple of wrongdoers, but the entire system that makes such crimes possible. This is the story of a corrupt regulatory procedure in which a corporation like Monsanto can knowingly sell a dangerous production for decades and manipulate the system in ways that shield it from public and regulatory scrutiny, all while raking in billions annually.

Meanwhile, like inWhitewash, we are once more reminded of the EPA'south history of lax regulatory enforcement and outrageous collusion with industry. In just one instance, Gillam documents how in 1985, eight members of the EPA'south toxicology branch were pressured to reverse their nomenclature of glyphosate as a Category C carcinogen and ameliorate the classification to "not likely to be carcinogenic."

"The EPA has a long history of rubbing elbows with the companies that they regulate," Gillam says. "The issue is, profits become protected, and public health does not."

The litigation confronting Bayer AG, which purchased Monsanto in 2018 and is now liable for its legal problems, continues. Meanwhile, Roundup can yet be institute on shelves in just about any hardware shop. But that doesn't discourage Gillam.

"So many people are now aware of the dangers," she says, "and are either switching their use of it or taking more than precautions, or going to their school districts to say, 'Don't use this.' In that location'south a movement to accost this problem. The bigger picture that's discouraging to me is that at that place are then many examples of this, so many chemicals, so many cases of corporations that are able to convince the EPA to expect away while they market their unsafe products."

Gillam points out that 39.eight percentage of Americans are expected to get cancer in their lifetime. That grim statistic is personal: Her father died just 41 days after receiving a brain cancer diagnosis. He had been exposed to massive quantities of insecticide 18 months before his death.

"We're all exposed to and then many environmental toxins, and science shows usa that these toxins tin can cause cancers, disease, and reproductive impairment," she says. "I don't know how nosotros change that, simply I know we have to. If nosotros don't, we are ensuring that our children are going to confront a dark and painful future."

Source: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/monsanto-s-big-lie-about-roundup-and-system-enabled-it

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