Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup was once marketed to farmers as “a herbicide that gets to the root of the problem”. Lately it’s become clear that it could be causing as many problems as it fixes, with the World Health Organisation assessing that it “probably” causes cancer in humans, a claim dismissed by parent company Bayer. A California jury this summer awarded a man exposed to the chemical through his work $289m (£220m) in damages. Thousands more cases are pending. This has left Monsanto – and Bayer, the German life sciences giant that paid $66bn to acquire the firm – with a big problem. Now, investigations by The Independent and Greenpeace have uncovered the controversial PR tactics used by agencies that Monsanto, and other manufacturers, hired to fix it. Roundup is the brand name for weedkillers based on glyphosate, one of the world’s most widely used agricultural chemicals. It is deployed by both giant agri-businesses and gardeners. It can readily be bought off the shelf from DIY chains, garden centres and other such outlets, in spray or bottle form, as a “fast action ready to use weedkiller”. This comes despite the findings of the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015 which… Read full this story
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