Since 2000, US drug war contractors have sprayed millions of gallons of Monsanto’s Roundup over Colombian farmland in an attempt to eradicate the coca trade. The efforts have failed to dent cocaine production, but have, on the other hand, managed to cause “a high degree of DNA damage” in Ecuadorians exposed to the chemicals. Today though, South American farmers may have spotted a hopeful sign, coming from across the sea:
A French court has declared the US biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides.
In the first such case heard in court in France, the grain grower Paul Francois, 47, said he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, headaches and stammering after inhaling Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller in 2004…
“It is a historic decision in so far as it is the first time that a (pesticide) maker is found guilty of such a poisoning,” François Lafforgue, Francois’s lawyer, told Reuters.
In related news, a group of Bolivian coca farmers last week brandished whips to drive off a government eradication team. Local officials defended the action; the farmers haven’t been arrested.
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