XPost: soc.culture.indian, alt.fan.jai-maharaj, sci.energy   
   XPost: alt.politics.economics, soc.culture.usa, alt.politics   
   XPost: talk.politics.misc, soc.culture.india   
   From: alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com   
      
   MONSANTO'S ROUNDUP AND RISK OF CANCER   
      
   By Sandhya Jain, Editorial, The Pioneer, dailypioneer.com   
   Tuesday, August 22, 2017   
      
   Even as documents released against Monsanto have raised   
   doubts about the safety of Roundup, in India, there have   
   been developments that indicates the deep penetration of   
   the corporates in policy-making institutions   
      
   Although the Western media has largely ignored an on-   
   going case against agricultural giant, Monsanto in Los   
   Angeles (LA), California, for concealing research about   
   the cancer risks associated with its money spinning weed-   
   killer, Roundup  leaked documents show that the firm   
   reportedly influenced the United States Environmental   
   Protection Agency (EPA) officials to suppress the   
   information.   
      
   Roundup (active ingredient glyphosate) is a non-selective   
   herbicide which kills weeds that compete with   
   agricultural crops. The LA-based plaintiff firm, Baum,   
   Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman, representing persons who   
   claim that they or their family members got cancer due to   
   Monsanto products, released the documents earlier this   
   month after a technical failure by Monsanto's legal team   
   freed them from confidentiality. The documents are mostly   
   emails exchanged between Monsanto executives and   
   researchers working for or connected with the EPA,   
   between 1999 and 2016.   
      
   Attorney R Brent Wisner observed, "Monsanto has   
   deliberately been stopping studies that look bad for   
   them, ghostwriting literature and engaging in a whole   
   host of corporate malfeasance. They (Monsanto) have been   
   telling everybody that these products are safe because   
   regulators have said they are safe, but it turns out that   
   Monsanto has been in bed with the US regulators while   
   misleading European regulators".   
      
   The EPA's report of the Cancer Assessment Review   
   Committee 2015, on glyphosate, tackled glyphosate's   
   cancer risks in a neutral manner and concluded that it   
   has no connection with many types of tumors, adding   
   cautiously, "there is conflicting evidence" that   
   glyphosate causes non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, a type of blood   
   cancer. Most of the 900-odd persons suing Monsanto claim   
   to have contracted precisely this type of cancer after   
   exposure to Roundup.   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   http://www.dailypioneer.com/columnists/edit/monsantos-roundup-an   
   -risk-of-cancer.html   
      
   Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi   
   Om Shanti   
      
   http://bit.do/jaimaharaj   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)