A false advertising lawsuit accusing Monsanto of misleading customers about its weed killer Roundup was thrown out by a federal judge Tuesday January 12th 2016.
Source: Monsanto Weeds Out False Ad Suit Over Pesticide – Law360
Initially I was not going to bother posting the information below. It is just so pointless to me anymore.
But then I realized in looking at my website stats today how many people from other countries will read my blog and get this post.
France
Ukraine
China
Germany
Virgin Islands
Sweden
Canada
Netherlands
Thailand
Brazil
Mexico
Taiwan
Great Britain
Vietnam
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And others!:-) Thank you! Permaculture is about community and you are my community!
And so I decided to post some information for them. America, its rivers, streams, and bays are probably hopelessly contaminated. But here are some thoughts for those of you who are a little smarter. Or just lucky enough to live in another country without Monsanto yet.
It is quite well known in the biological and particularly microbiological communities that suppressing an animals normal bacterial flora will cause increased weight gain for a given amount of food consumed. This is the reason antibiotics are widely used in the cattle industry.( http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/3-reasons-no-4-reasons-why-were-fatter-than-30-years-ago/ )
Monsanto’s glyphosate ingredient in Roundup targets an enzyme that is found in many plants — but also in many bacteria. The enzyme is not found in a persons’ individual human cells. Hence monsanto’s label statement “glyphosate targets an enzyme found in plants but not in people or their pets.”
There is not a competent biological expert living today that doesn’t recognize that our gut flora is absolutely required for our health and well-being and that the individual bacterial cells in us and on us outnumber our own cells virtually 30 to 1
Glyphosate targets and damages these microbial cells. It harms our normal microbial flora and (for the same reasons described in the cattle industry link above) it is likely to be a part of the US obesity problem. Many of our ongoing diabetic and obesity linked health problems are likely to be partly due to the glyphosate found in our food and even drinking water.
So Monsanto statement that it doesn’t hurt people or pets is an absolutely false labeling statement. And if all of Monsanto scientists are so incompetent as to not recognize the difference between ‘people’ and ‘human cells’, then they are not competent to provide quality data for regulation purposes either. It is simply false advertising.
The federal judge in the lawsuit above apparently accepted monsanto’s argument that since glyphosate does not target human cells that the label was not incorrect. The judge apparently does not or cannot comprehend, or doesn’t know enough law to realize that “people” and “human cells” are completely different legal entities. This judge’s logic seems to me like telling someone shot through the heart that they are not really dead because their liver is okay.
A living breathing person is the sum of all his or her parts, including individual homosapien cells, DNA, organs, brains, skin, _and microbial flora_.
And guess what all you pet lovers out there, glyphosate is toxic to your pets’ microbial flora as well.
Monsanto’s glyphosate weed killer _is_ toxic to both people and pets.
And if this link is true , it is toxic to individual human (and dog, and cat, and reptile, and bird, and goat, and horse, and all animal) cells as well.
And Monsanto, in my opinion, if you do sloppy half-a$$ed research, ignore, and even vilify evidence that your research was half-a$$ed, and then you label a product falsely, you are financially responsible for the results. Just my 2¢
If there is any Karmic justice in the world this judge with a brilliant legal mind is consuming a lot of GMO foodstuff.
But to my friends in other countries reading this; my best to you all :-)