29/June/20

 

A plan to delay any new Roundup cancer claims for years and shift the key question of whether or not the weedkiller causes cancer from a jury to a hand-picked panel of scientists faces potential opposition from some of the plaintiffs’ attorneys who initiated and led the mass tort claims against Roundup maker Monsanto, sources close to the litigation said. Several members of the lead law firms who won three out of three trials pitting cancer patients against Monsanto are considering challenging the terms of a proposed “class action” settlement negotiated between Monsanto owner Bayer and a small team of lawyers who have not previously been at the forefront of the Roundup litigation, the sources said. US Right to Know

 

 

The Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT), Mexico’s Environment Ministry, has announced that glyphosate-based herbicides will be phased out of use in the country by 2024 to protect human health and the environment. SEMARNAT announced late Thursday that it has created a roadmap for the gradual reduction of the use of glyphosate in Mexico until it reaches a total ban in 2024. SEMARNAT, with Victor M. Toledo at the helm, is taking determined steps towards the transformation of the country’s agri-food system in order to make it “safer, healthier and more environmentally friendly”. Sustainable Pulse

 

 

Where did SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, come from? Most governments and scientists are sticking with the official story put out by the Chinese Communist Party and most of the international mass media that SARS-CoV-2, has a natural origin, even though after months of searching, no natural host has been found. But an increasing body of evidence, as summarised by André Leu, is showing that the most likely scenario is that SARS-CoV-2 was made in a lab and escaped. The key is in the virus's spike protein and furin cleavage site. Organic Consumers Association

 

 

Waterhemp is US agriculture's "worst weed problem". In Iowa, the leading producer of GMO corn and soybeans, 87% of waterhemp populations are resistant to glyphosate ("HG9" herbicide) and 25% are already showing resistance to dicamba and 2,4-D, the herbicides intended to fix the problem of glyphosate-resistance. GMWatch Twitter comment on tweet by Meaghan Anderson @mjanders1