Federal judge denies Monsanto’s request to toss lawsuit filed by Hawaiian coffee farmer diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Wednesday, July 13, 2016
By Paul Martin

by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews.com
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

The world’s most evil corporation was dealt a major legal blow recently, after trying to silence a Hawaiian couple for claiming injury from the use of glyphosate, a highly controversial weedkiller that the World Health Organization (WHO) last year linked to causing cancer in humans.

It all started when Christine Sheppard, a former co-owner of Dragons Lair Kona Coffee Farm in Captain Cook, on Hawaii’s Big Island, stumbled upon a WHO report exposing glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen. Having several years previously developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma seemingly out of nowhere, Christine put two and two together and tied the chemicals she and her husband were spraying on their farm to her affliction.

After looking into the matter further, Christine narrowed the culprit down to glyphosate, a chemical that the couple had been using on their coffee plants for nearly 10 years before deciding to transition to more organic methods. In 2009, Christine wrote an editorial that was published in the newsletter of the Kona Coffee Farmer’s Association, explaining what she had been through, and pointing to the glyphosate link.

She and her husband later filed a lawsuit against Monsanto over the herbicide’s labeling, which doesn’t disclose to farmers the true dangers of glyphosate, only to have Monsanto counter the suit with its own claims that the Sheppards had brought forward inadmissible evidence that exceeded the two-year statute of limitations.

According to Monsanto, Christine was suspicious of glyphosate long before her cancer diagnosis, and thus doesn’t have a case. But after hearing both sides, U.S. District Judge Michael Seabright ruled against Monsanto and in favor of the Sheppards, who will now proceed with the case and hopefully win.

The Rest…HERE

Leave a Reply

Join the revolution in 2018. Revolution Radio is 100% volunteer ran. Any contributions are greatly appreciated. God bless!

Follow us on Twitter