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womanofthehills

(8,718 posts)
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:15 AM Mar 2017

Trump-STOPPING studies on Roundup. Robert Kennedy Jr. has 1 mil Monsanto docs

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Makes You Hate Monsanto More Than You Already Do – Thom Hartmann Program

EPA has been lying to us for 20 yrs on dangers of glyphosate - adjuvants worst than glyphosate and adjuvants make glyphosate way more toxic than glyphosate alone. Kennedy has one million documents from Monsanto that need to be unsealed for the public to see the corruption between Monsanto and the EPA. "The judge is making a decision whether to unseal the documents".

Robert Kennedy Jr. representing 3000 home gardeners, farmers and farm workers. Huge history of corruption between Monsanto and the EPA; documents show the truth. Texas attorney general brought a case because of tremendous amount of Roundup in breakfast cereal given to childen - our wheat and oats are mega contaminated. This week TRUMP CANCELLED all Roundup studies.
https://trofire.com/2017/03/31/robert-f-kennedy-jr-makes-hate-monsanto-already-thom-hartmann-program/




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Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)
1. Cut disability funding; create a boon in birth defects; outlaw abortion of fetuses with defects
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:24 AM
Mar 2017

Do republicans think that cognitive disorders with bring them in more voters?

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
2. RFK Jr is a badly compromised spokesperson due to his vocal support
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:33 AM
Mar 2017

of anti-vac woo.

Having him as a spokesperson on legitimate issues doesn't help said issues.

womanofthehills

(8,718 posts)
7. So Monsanto apologists - how about the New York Times - is that any better for you?
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 02:31 PM
Mar 2017
Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents
The court documents included Monsanto’s internal emails and email traffic between the company and federal regulators. The records suggested that Monsanto had ghostwritten research that was later attributed to academics and indicated that a senior official at the Environmental Protection Agency had worked to quash a review of Roundup’s main ingredient, glyphosate, that was to have been conducted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Monsanto Weed Killer Roundup Faces New Doubts on Safety in Unsealed Documents.

The files were unsealed by Judge Vince Chhabria, who is presiding over litigation brought by people who claim to have developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a result of exposure to glyphosate. The litigation was touched off by a determination made nearly two years ago by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, that glyphosate was a probable carcinogen, citing research linking it to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Court records show that Monsanto was tipped off to the determination by a deputy division director at the E.P.A., Jess Rowland, months beforehand. That led the company to prepare a public relations assault on the finding well in advance of its publication. Monsanto executives, in their internal email traffic, also said Mr. Rowland had promised to beat back an effort by the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct its own review.


AND HOW SICK IS THIS:

In one email unsealed Tuesday, William F. Heydens, a Monsanto executive, told other company officials that they could ghostwrite research on glyphosate by hiring academics to put their names on papers that were actually written by Monsanto. “We would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak,” Mr. Heydens wrote, citing a previous instance in which he said the company had done this.
 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
9. I love your absolute lack of logic.
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 02:39 PM
Mar 2017

If one thinks RFK, Jr (an admitted anti-vaxxer, which is QUITE a dangerous opinion to have) is an anti science loon, then one must be a Monsanto apologist.

My comment is about RFK Jr, and my doubt that he has said documents.

 

Dr Hobbitstein

(6,568 posts)
12. I did not say that, you are putting words in my mouth.
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 08:53 AM
Apr 2017

But you're one of our resident anti-vaxxers, so why bother arguing with you?

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,732 posts)
4. I don't put much stock in what Kennedy says about any scientific studies.
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 11:47 AM
Mar 2017

Doubtless, Roundup is bad stuff; but Kennedy's disregard for science in general and his fondness for woo-based "theories" makes me less likely to believe what he says about anything.

womanofthehills

(8,718 posts)
8. Kennedy does not have a disregard for science
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 02:38 PM
Mar 2017

He has been involved with many vaccine injury lawsuits. He wants to improve vaccines, not eliminate them. Lord forbid anyone want to improve vaccines made by big pharma. There are a small percentage of people who become permanently disabled from vaccines and he would like that number to be smaller. All of his children are vaccinated.

nycbos

(6,034 posts)
5. He is an anti-vax wacko.
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 12:06 PM
Mar 2017

Obama in a commencement address said "you will meet a lot of people who are book smart but have zero common sense" RFK Jr is one of those people.

womanofthehills

(8,718 posts)
10. He is not anti-vax - Anyone who wants to improve vaccines is called anti-vax by you guys
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 02:53 PM
Mar 2017

Why does Health and Human Services have a Vaccine Injury Compensation Program with a 3 billion dollar budget?

Anyway, this thread is about Monsanto and how they are deceiving and poisoning the American people and how Trump is complicit with this. Before Trump was president, when he was running, he made comments about the people of Iowa being so stupid because of GMO's and pesticides - so it's not like he is not aware of this.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
6. No one should have poison in their food with no warning
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 12:20 PM
Mar 2017

Clean food is a basic human right. Corporations that put poisons into food are deliberately sacrificing public health for private profit.

No matter what deflections - or ad hominem attacks - any of the army of corporate trolls out there on the InterTubes may claim, putting poisons in food with no warnings is DEPLORABLE

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
14. Auto Quality Control
Sat Apr 1, 2017, 09:07 AM
Apr 2017

What do you think could be an effective counter argument to what you posted above?

Bold opinions will have push back. Anticipate them.

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