Landmark Monsanto payout over possible Roundup cancer link divides Australian farmers
Tralee Snape (above) believes her non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma was caused by the chemical glyphosate. (ABC Rural: Josh Becker) When a San Francisco jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289.2 million to former school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, currently dying of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma due to his use of Roundup, it worried some Australian farmers but relieved others. Because a growing number of them “want a review of the use of the chemical”1 in the country. “NSW South Coast farmer Tralee Snape was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2010, and said her oncologist called it a ‘farmer’s cancer’. ‘He said he couldn’t prove that himself, but from the patients he...
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