Category Archives: Cancer
Agricultural Workers, Farmers: Exposure to Roundup May Be Increasing Cancer Risk
Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup is an extremely popular weed killer in the United States. Over 90 percent of domestic soy, corn and cotton crops, covering over 168 million acres, are genetically altered to resist glyphosate’s damaging effects. In recent years, however, the now Bayer-owned Monsanto has been the target of at least 14,000 lawsuits that… Read More »
Lawsuits Allege Link Between Roundup and Cancer
Lawsuits Allege Link Between Roundup and Cancer Hundreds of plaintiffs have filed Roundup lawsuits against Monsanto alleging that the company’s popular herbicide causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a rare form of cancer. There are currently dozens of product liability lawsuits pending against Monsanto throughout the federal court system, each involving claims that Monsanto knew or should… Read More »