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Health & Healing

Roundup Cancer Lawsuits to trial over Bayer/Monsanto’s objections; researchers who put money and the
By the time Bayer bought Monsanto in the appeals court also upheld the reduced loss of it before the loss of human
2018, thousands of lawsuits linking award.) lives. I am not against science and
Roundup to the development of a form of research. But the truth is, science
cancer known as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Now, to not sound as if what I am without conscience and a heart for
had been filed in courts nationwide. (The talking about are just some stories human safety is nothing but poison
business entity known as “Monsanto” no coming out from outside of the and death. And this we are already
longer exists, though the name appears to continent of Afrika, or even Ken- seeing with the amount of cancer
live on in court filings related to Roundup ya from where the bill has been cases, eye defects, obesity and the
litigation.) submitted, let me now share a few many other non-communicable
That same year, in the first of these cases things about what is going on with diseases we are seeing right now in
to go to trial, a California jury found in the health of farmers and their con- our society.
favor of Dewayne Johnson, a 46-year-old tacts with some of these chemicals.
groundskeeper who worked at a number It’s up to you
of California schools. Johnson’s attorneys Sometime back, we shared with you Like Dr Jack Githae, a Kenya Nat-
argued that he developed non-Hodgkin’s in this magazine and even on our ural Medicine Practitioner, men-
lymphoma after using Roundup on the TV show, a new study by the Uni- tioned in one of our interviews with
job, and alleged a scientific connection versity of Nairobi (UoN) which says him, every community and people
between the product and the illness. The that the number of children being of such community, according to
jury stopped short of finding a clear causal born with physical abnormalities the constitution, have the right to
link between Johnson’s use of glyphosate in Kiambu County has been rising. defend themselves from any form
and his cancer, instead finding that Bayer/ The study shows that the issue of of danger. And this makes sense,
Monsanto had failed to do enough to warn Hypospadias, which is a rare male especially now that we have more
Johnson of the risk that Roundup could genital organ defect was the most compromised government and
cause cancer. Bayer/Monsanto was ordered frequently occurring of all observed private agencies that are nothing but
to pay $289 million in damages. That physical abnormalities detectable at puppets in the hands of those who
award has twice been reduced on appeal birth. The study also found out that control the money.
(to $20.5 million), but Bayer/Monsanto’s the increase in Epispadias, another
liability has been upheld both times. defect of the male genital organ, So, if the scientists and research-
was similarly common in Kiambu ers are erroneously feeding the
Two more Roundup lawsuits to reach the County.” According to the study, government false information that
trial stage also ended in big wins for the the two types of penile defects have chemical based farming practices are
plaintiffs: been linked to boys born of obese the only way for food sustainability
mothers, women giving birth at and agro-economics, yet these are
In May 2019, a jury ordered Bayer to older ages than 35 years, and those killing people by their millions, then
pay $2 billion in punitive damages in a exposed to toxic chemicals such it is time for the masses to decide
lawsuit filed by a couple who both devel- as pesticides, hormones, med- for themselves how to protect
oped non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using icines or industrial chemicals themselves from such evil disguised
Roundup for over 30 years. The couple was during pregnancy. as science. For, as we can already
also awarded another $55 million in com- see in our modern world, science
pensatory damages. A few months later, My thoughts without conscience, left in the hands
this massive award was reduced to $86.7 I do not think it makes any sense of those also without conscience
million after the judge concluded that the for us to cover our faces with the is nothing but a weapon of mass
original judgment was significantly out of blindfold of science and foolish destruction and population extermi-
step with legal precedent. research that has no meaning and nation. Let us be wise and a thinking
In March 2019, a jury awarded $80 which adds nothing useful to our people.
million (including $75 million in punitive lives as Afrikans. We definitely do
damages, later cut to $20 million) to a not need a scientist or researcher Check out a video interview we did
plaintiff who had used Roundup in his to tell us what is safe and what is with a lady called Angela Ndiho
yard for over 25 years before developing not, if we can with our own eyes titled: How I Overcame Breast Can-
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. (In May 2021, see the consequences of the choices cer Using Natural Vegetable Juicing.
a federal appeals court ruled that the judge and decisions we are making in the
had properly allowed the case to proceed name of money. So, shame on those

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