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Judge REFUSES To Let Attorneys Discuss Monsanto’s Disgusting Conduct During Roundup Trial
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5:23Now PlayingThe judge currently presiding over one of the bellwether Monsanto Roundup trials is doing everything possible to hinder the plaintiffs. This week, the judge said that the lawyers for the plaintiff are no longer allowed to talk about Monsanto’s conduct as a corporation, including the years of coverups and the front groups that they have been funding to mislead the public about the dangers of Roundup and glyphosate. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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The very first federal trial against Monsanto over the dangers of their weed killer Roundup and glyphosate. The active ingredient in Roundup, um, are underway right now. And yesterday in this very first federal trial, the judge told the plaintiff's lawyers, you can't talk about how bad Monsanto's conduct has been. You cannot talk about the fact that Monsanto for decades tried to cover up the dangers of their product.
Okay.
The plaintiffs have essentially because of what this judge has told them, essentially putting a gag order on them. They have been told, you can't make your case.
Okay?
That is how badly the hands of these plaintiffs lawyers are being tied by this federal judge in order to aid Monsanto. Let me explain something for people who've never been to trial, who, who aren't really familiar with how this works. Whenever you have a bad product and you go to trial representing the people injured by this bad product, the very first thing you have to do is show that the company knew about it and then you have to show that they covered it up.
This judge and Monsanto for glyphosate just said, you can't do that. You can't show that they knew about it. You can't show that they covered it up, so what the hell is the point of the trial? If you can't argue that this company knew about it and covered it up, then why are we wasting our time even going to trial? Let's just let Monsanto off the hook. Let's let millions of people get poisoned by glyphosate and then move on as if nothing happened. I'm sure that's what Monsanto wants, and based on this ruling, I have to assume that this might be what the judge wants here. Now, I don't know too much about the judge in this particular case, Vince, a Jabrea, if I pronounced that correctly, I do not know Vince's history. I do not know if if, if he's more of a corporate guy or if he's more of a pro consumer guy, but I do know that this is a bad decision. It's a bad decision because here's what we, the public know and this is readily available on the Internet right now. We know that for years, Monsanto has been funding a group called the glyphosate task force, glyphosate task force. Their job has been to go out there and mislead the public to tell them that glyphosate used in Roundup will not give you cancer
day of paid scientists. They actually have a list serve of lists of scientists that are willing to go out there and write these phony reports or put their names on these phony reports put out by glyphosate task force and Monsanto. We know that. We know that that is something can search for right now and find it on the Internet. Everybody in this country has access to it. I'm not telling you anything that you couldn't go and find yourself.
Okay?
And now this judge is telling these plaintiffs lawyers, you can't say this in court. You can't tell this to the jury. You can't go through all the years and years and years of, you know, scientists that Monsanto funded to show that you know, this thing is safe even though it's not.
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