Monsanto deliberately concealed the cancer risk of Garrette for 40 years. The court awarded NT $9 billion in the Johnson & Johnson case, and 4, 000 Americans waited to go to court.

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The verdict of Monsanto's century trial was announced. The San Francisco Superior Court ruled on Aug. 10 that Monsanto was responsible for cancer suffered by Johnson, a California campus administrator, and compensated US $290 million (about NT $9 billion).

The judge slowly read out the jury's verdict: "Monsanto in the spring of each year (Roundup) and related herbicide signs, did not remind the use or misuse of harm?" Yes, guilty. Every spring and related herbicides hurt Johnson? Yes, guilty. "

More than 4,000 patients in the United States, like Johnson, who suffered from non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (non-Hodgkin lymphoma), filed a lawsuit with their families, accusing Monsanto of failing to report for more than 40 years, resulting in their loss of health, normal life and even lives.

Bayer, which buys Monsanto, also denies the risk of Garrett.

After the verdict in the Johnson & Johnson case, Monsanto insisted in a statement: "this verdict will not change the fact that more than 800 scientific studies have pointed out that garnet does not cause cancer. Johnson's cancer is not caused by it." We will continue to appeal to defend this product that has been safe for farmers and others for more than 40 years. "

Bayer of Germany, which successfully bought Monsanto for $66 billion in June, did not have time to erase the infamous sign, and a spokesman said like a jump needle: "Garnet is safe and does not cause cancer."

When the agrochemical plant took no responsibility, Johnson said in court: "I will not spray herbicides containing gabion plug in the open space of the school or near people if I know it will hurt them." This is unethical and should not be treated in this way. "

Monsanto has a long criminal record and concealed the risk of PCBs for decades.

Johnson is so silly and naive that there is no word "ethics" in Monsanto's dictionary with criminal record, and the jury in California accused the company, which is based in Missouri, of committing a deliberate crime, not an unintentional mistake.

Monsanto, a repeat offender, is no stranger to such charges. The Washington Post (Washington Post) pointed out that the 2002 verdict of the Alabama court in the United States read: "Monsanto was found guilty of malicious negligence, unscrupulous, concealment, obstruction, assault, and so on." it must compensate nearly 4, 000 residents of Anniston in Alabama, totaling US $700 million.

Monsanto's lawless script is almost the same, except that the toxic chemicals have been replaced by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB).

Nearly a hundred years ago, Monsanto set up a factory in Aniston in the 1920s and then began to produce PCBs for electrical insulators, lubricants and paints. Just as Johnson believed that Gapsese was harmless, residents of Aniston believed Monsanto's claim that PCBs were safe products until 1996.

However, Monsanto discovered as early as 1966 that Aniston's stream fish died within ten seconds of exposure to PCBs, with burst blood vessels and exfoliated epidermis as if they had been scalded by boiling water. In 1969, it was confirmed that the content of PCBs in stream fish was 7500 times the legal limit.

Not surprisingly, the nearby residents were kept in the dark. Monsanto's internal document reads: "the cost of restricting the discharge of sewage is too high." What's more, we can't lose the PCBs that generate 22 million dollars a year. "We can't lose a dime. We must continue to sell, make profits, and protect the company's image."

According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Monsanto emitted about 27 metric tons of PCBs in Anniston from 1929 to 1971, 810 metric tons into the local snow creek, and 30, 2000 metric tons disposed of in the open air.

The United States banned the production of PCBs in 1979, but on the other side of the Pacific, there was no time to stop the poison. In the same year, due to the leakage of PCBs caused by the rupture of the oil pipeline, rice bran oil poisoning broke out in Taiwan, and the victims at that time could not get rid of the entanglement of the poison with their descendants.

On the day of reckoning, the United States, Brazil and the European Union all have to pay the price for Monsanto.

After Johnson, 4,000 Americans are waiting to go to court, and in October they will go straight to Monsanto's stronghold for the next Garrette trial in Missouri. Brazil, which also grows a lot of genetically modified crops, is also a heavy user of herbicides, and the local federal court ruled in early August that the use of garnet must be suspended pending the release of the government's new safety report. European civic groups also plan to sue the EU because of flaws in the process of renewing the five-year approval of Gaposet last year.

From the discovery of the sudden death of brook fish due to polychlorinated biphenyls to the victory of Aniston residents, from the listing of the herbicide Carphoset to the verdict of Johnson, both cases took 40 years to tear off Monsanto's mask of peace and reveal the hideous face of poison. "Monsanto must take responsibility and the day has come for general ledger," said Brent Wisner, Johnson's lawyer.

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