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In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and subsequently caused devastating birth defects in their children. The farmers are now suing not only Monsanto on behalf of their children, but many big tobacco giants as well. The birth defects that the farmers say occurred as a result are many, and include cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, psychomotor retardation, missing fingers, and blindness.
The farmers come from small family-owned farms in Misiones Province and sell their tobacco to many United States distributors. The family farmers say that major tobacco companies like the Philip Morris company asked them to use Monsantos herbicides and pesticides, assuring them that the products were safe. Through asserting that the toxic chemicals were safe, the farmers state in their claim that the tobacco companies wrongfully caused the parental and infant plaintiffs to be exposed to those chemicals and substances which they both knew, or should have known, would cause the infant offspring of the parental plaintiffs to be born with devastating birth defects.
The majority of the farmers in the area used Monsantos Roundup, an herbicide with the active ingredient glyphosate that has shown to be killing human kidney cells. Whats more, the farmers say that the tobacco companies pushed Monsantos Roundup on the farmers despite a lack of protective equipment. In other words, these farmers many in dire economic conditions were being directly exposed to Roundup in large concentrations without any protective gear (or even experience or skills in handling the substance). Still, the farmers say the tobacco giants required the struggling farmers to purchase excessive quantities of Roundup and other pesticides.
Most shocking, the farmers were ordered to discard leftover herbicides and pesticides in locations in which they leached directly into the water supply. With Monsantos Roundup already known to be contaminating the groundwater, this comes as a serious threat to pure water supplies.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Much of the time.
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(11,641 posts)Blue Meany
(1,947 posts)tobacco farmers, whose product kills many of those who use it as intended and cause health risks for those around them, complain about products they knew to be poisons doing the same to them.