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Major Verdict in Favor of Citizen Plaintiff against Monsanto

14/08/2018

Major Verdict in Favor of Citizen Plaintiff against Monsanto

Monsanto lost the first trial by a plaintiff who got non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using Roundup. The jury awarded Dewayne "Lee" Johnson, a Bay Area school district groundskeeper, $289 million.

Johnson testified that he would never have used Roundup if he had known of the dangers, and accused Monsanto of concealing Roundup’s safety risks to continue profiting from its billion-dollar herbicide.

“I never would’ve sprayed that product on school grounds or around people if I knew it would cause them harm,” Johnson said during emotional testimony. “It’s unethical. It’s wrong. People don’t deserve that.” (See below for his press conference after the verdict.)

There are more than 4000 more plaintiffs who have joined various class actions waiting to start their trials.

And as we from Healing from GMOs and Roundup know by now, this is just one of the diseases that is linked to Monsanto’s herbicide.