MONSANTO & BUDDIES SUING TO PROTECT PROFITS

This is becoming routine. A government agency responsible for protecting the public are sued by private industry because their products are either hazardous or likely to be hazardous to the environment or human beings. Isn't our judicial system (Canada & U.S.) just too precious? This time it'as occurring in California and the product is glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup.

It seems as if agricultural groups and other vested interests feel that consumer health and safety is less important than their never ending profits. The President of the National Association of Wheat Growers stated that California's cancer warning regarding Roundup "would result in higher food costs, crushing blows to state and agricultural economies and lost revenue up and down the entire supply chain.".

Recently the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified Glyphosate as "a probable human carcinogen". Hence the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment added glyphosate to it's list of chemicals known to cause cancer. This normally precedes a requirement for warning labels to be put on products using this chemical.

Monsanto and many others have made millions if not billions of dollars off of glyphosate at the expense apparently of the environment and various lifeforms including humans. How dare government agencies attack their wealth and accompanying status and power merely because their products might actually harm more than the weeds they are supposed to kill. If this is democracy folks then I don't care for it. The Waterloo Region Record published this story yesterday titled "California weed-killer warning faces lawsuit".