From the Food Babes .com site
Here are some emails that the govt has released from / to Monsanto from various govt officials, etc.
[FONT="]Monsanto was in private talks with a top official at the EPA, Jess Rowland, who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of glyphosate for the EPA. Rowland was allegedly helping them stop another federal agency from investigating whether glyphosate causes cancer and told a Monsanto employee, [/FONT][FONT="]“If I can kill this I should get a medal”[/FONT][FONT="]. Rowland also signed off on the mysteriously leaked and deleted EPA memo [/FONT][FONT="]which found glyphosate “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans”, which Monsanto touted as proof the EPA finds it safe
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Here are some emails that the govt has released from / to Monsanto from various govt officials, etc.
[FONT="]Monsanto was in private talks with a top official at the EPA, Jess Rowland, who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of glyphosate for the EPA. Rowland was allegedly helping them stop another federal agency from investigating whether glyphosate causes cancer and told a Monsanto employee, [/FONT][FONT="]“If I can kill this I should get a medal”[/FONT][FONT="]. Rowland also signed off on the mysteriously leaked and deleted EPA memo [/FONT][FONT="]which found glyphosate “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans”, which Monsanto touted as proof the EPA finds it safe
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- Long-term EPA toxicologist Marion Copley accused EPA’s Rowland of playing“political conniving games with the science” and making decisions based on his “bonus” in favoring pesticide makers (such as Monsanto). Dr. Copley went on to allude that other EPA staff have conflicts of interest and may be taking bribes. She asserts that Anna Lowit (still at the EPA) intimidated staff to change their findings to favor the industry. Dr. Copley also stated, “It is essentially certain that glyphosate causes cancer.”
- A Monsanto employee proposed they could “ghost-write” portions of a scientific report and then just have hired scientists “sign their names so to speak”. The EPA would later use this report evaluate the safety of glyphosate. The reason they would do this is highly unethical – to make the report appear to have been prepared by independent scientists, when in reality Monsanto wrote it! This begs the question, how often do they do this? An email suggests they ghostwrote this report presented to EPA regulators in 2000, although no Monsanto employees are listed as authors.
- Way back in 1999, Monsanto buried the findings of their own scientist (Dr. James Parry) who found glyphosate is genotoxic and recommended further testing. Internal emails show that Monsanto employees questioned whether Parry had “ever worked with industry before”, “hoped that it didn’t cost too much” and that they should hire a different expert who would be “influential with regulators” and help them with “outreach” efforts. Ha! They only want to hire scientists who will make findings in their favor to deceive our regulators.
- Monsanto knows other compounds in Roundup such as NNG and 1, 4 Dioxane are toxic and can cause cancer as they acknowledged this with each other in emails mentioned in court docs: “If you talk to Kerry [Liefer, an EPA employee], I wouldn’t push the NNG issue too hard — don’t want to draw attention to the toxicity of our product”.
- And it goes on and on.
