Boy the hits just keep coming HUH????
Reprinted with permissionfrom USRTK. Today I received this email. Combined with every other fraud and hoax of the past 50 years. This company kind of puts a bow on things…
Here’s the email….
In court documents filed Dec. 9, Monsanto Co. agreed to plead guilty to 30 environmental crimes related to the use of a pesticide on corn fields in Hawaii, after workers were allowed to go into fields that had been sprayed with Forfeit 280, a glufosinate ammonium-based herbicide.
Monsanto also will plead guilty to two felony crimes related to the storage of a banned chemical on Maui, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The plea agreement calls for Monsanto to serve three years probation and pay a $12 million fine.
“Monsanto is a serial violator of federal environmental laws,” said United States Attorney Tracy L. Wilkison. “The company repeatedly violated laws related to highly regulated chemicals, exposing people to pesticides that can cause serious health problems.”
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Read more in the DOJ press release: Monsanto Agrees to Plead Guilty to Illegally Using Pesticide at Corn Growing Fields in Hawaii and to Pay Additional $12 Million
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See Associated Press coverage, Monsanto to plead guilty to illegal pesticide use in Hawaii
Agribusiness lobbies to undermine climate goals: Pesticide giants like Bayer and BASF are pushing for weaker action on harmful chemicals and climate goals, reports DeSmog in a new investigation. See, Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets
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See also DeSmog’s agribusiness database of lobbyists and previous investigation, How pesticide companies are marketing themselves as a solution to climate change
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For more on this topic, see U.S. Right to Know’s reporting on the pesticide industry propaganda network.
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More food and public health news of the week
- Antibiotic Use in US Farm Animals Was Falling. Now It’s Not — Wired
- Microplastics cause damage to human cells, study shows: Harm included cell death and occurred at levels of plastic eaten by people via their food — The Guardian
- Manufactured Meat: Who needs farms and ranches when food industrializers have petri dishes, fetal bovine serum and cell vats? — Jim Hightower
- Lab leaks – London Review of Books
- Bayer’s Bid to End Roundup Cancer Suits Leads Supreme Court to Ask for Biden Input — Bloomberg
- How Gates Foundation-funded Cornell Alliance for Science fellows are discrediting agroecology, and failing at it – AGRA Watch
- Africa’s Land Use Problem: Is Green Revolution Agriculture a Solution or a Cause? — The Elephant
- The new US nutrition aid strategy undermines Africa’s hungriest – Al Jazeera
In case you missed it
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Biosafety expert close to Wuhan Institute of Virology urged associates there to address his tough questions about lab origin of SARS-CoV-2 – U.S. Right to Know
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