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Monsanto loses appeal in French farmer's poisoning case
A French court on Thursday upheld a guilty verdict against chemicals giant Monsanto over the poisoning of a farmer who suffered neurological damage after using one of its weedkillers, the latest legal setback for the company over its controversial pesticides.
Cereal farmer Paul François has been fighting Monsanto, a formerly US company which was bought by Germany's Bayer last year, for the past 12 years.
In the first ruling of its kind against Monsanto anywhere in the world, a French court in 2012 found it guilty of poisoning François.
At: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/monsanto-loses-appeal-in-french-farmers-poisoning-case/ar-BBVQoLm
French farmer Paul François, left, and his lawyer François Lafforgue.
François said he hopes French President Emmanuel Macron takes note of today's ruling.
"Macron had said that he would seek a different agriculture, without glyphosate."
"But he has not done so, so now we know who he is riding with: he rolls for Bayer."
