Joining Forces in Pursuit of Justice for Monsanto Victims How an eclectic band of lawyers came together to build the case against the agribusiness giant’s toxic herbicides, Roundup and Ranger Pro. Carey Gillam
and warn the world about long-hidden dangers of the popular weed killers.
Listen to editor Maureen Nandini Mitra’s conversation with Gillam about her book on KPFA Public radio.
BY THE SUMMER OF 2017, the plaintiffs’ attorneys had completed several depositions of Monsanto executives and felt they were nearly ready to go to trial. There was so far no smoking gun no internal memo indisputably tying the company’s products to cancer. But the legal team had what they saw as strong evidence that the company had long been aware of concerns about the potential cancer risks of the Roundup formulations that combined glyphosate with certain surfactants.