Photo Gallery Outrage over Monsanto Cancer Connection
Protesters take part in a march against Monsanto in Switzerland, in May of 2016. The agrochemical giant isn't exactly one of the world's most beloved corporations, but the recent release of the Monsanto Papers has revealed behavior by the company that is shocking even to critics.
The trove of internal documents and emails reveals, on one hand, the lack of research conducted by the company on whether one of its signature chemicals, glyphosate, which is used in its herbicide Roundup, is carcinogenic. It also organized a concerted effort to undermine research that concluded that it did cause cancer.
Around 2,000 plaintiffs are taking part in a class-action lawsuit in the United States. They claim that Roundup has caused non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of lymph node cancer, in them or their relatives.
A Monsanto research farm in Manitoba, Canada. "The Monsanto Papers tell an alarming story of ghostwriting, scientific manipulation and the withholding of information," says Michael Baum, a partner in the law firm of Baum, Hedlund, Aristei and Goldman, which is leading one of the US class actions.
