Argentinean Tobacco farmers suing Monsanto

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Explosive: Monsanto ‘Knowingly Poisoned Workers’ Causing Devastating Birth

Defects

Gucciardi

NaturalSociety

April 11, 2012

In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is

being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the

biotech giantknowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and

subsequently caused ”devastating birth defects” in their children. The farmers

are now suing not only Monsanto on behalf of their children, but many big

tobacco giants as well. The birth defects that the farmers say occurred as a

result are many, and include cerebral palsy, down syndrome, psychomotor

retardation, missing fingers, and blindness.

The farmers come from small family-owned farms in Misiones Province and sell

their tobacco to many United States distributors. The family farmers say that

major tobacco companies like the Philip company asked them to use

Monsanto’s herbicides and pesticides, assuring them that the products were safe.

Through asserting that the toxic chemicals were safe, the farmers state in their

claim that the tobacco companies ”wrongfully caused the parental and infant

plaintiffs to be exposed to those chemicals and substances which they both knew,

or should have known, would cause the infant offspring of the parental

plaintiffs to be born with devastating birth defects.”