In the case of Alva and Alberta Pilliod their attorney argued that after 30 years of using roundup it caused them caner. How many other products did they use while using Roundup? According to National Pesticide Information Center (2010), Glyphosate is a non-selective herbicide, meaning it will kill most plants. It prevents the plants from making certain proteins that are needed for plant growth. Studies have looked at cancer rates in humans and studies where laboratory animals were fed high doses of glyphosate. Based on these studies, they determined that glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic.
According to Goguen (2021), In 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared that the herbicide was not likely to cause cancer. The EPA largely reiterated this stance in 2019, when the agency concluded that glyphosate is “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” In 2018, the German pharmaceutical company Bayer purchased Monsanto which produced the product Roundup which contains 41 percent glyphosate. Bayer believed the findings of the EPA and were certain they did not produce a harmful product. In each case regarding Roundup, the jury sided with the plaintiff because proof is an elusive concept. Clearly, in the jury’s view, there was sufficient “proof” for the case against Roundup. Yet, it is close to impossible to prove in cancer cases. Science proves one thing and law proves another. In product liability cases like these, plaintiffs must prove that the product was the “specific cause” of the harm done. Therefore, I side with the defendant. I stand behind the science and research.
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Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer affecting the immune system, occurs when the body produces excessive abnormal lymphocytes, a kind of white blood cell. Eventually, lymph nodes become crowded by these cancerous lymphocytes and begin to swell. Certain infections, bacteria, and medications, as well as older age, are all well-documented risk factors of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared in 2017 that glyphosate was unlikely to cause cancer, even though other organizations do not agree (“The Link Between Weed Killer and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma – Regional Cancer Care Associates”, 2020).
I am siding with the defendant that the use of round up was not the cause of their cancer diagnosis. Studies in the past had shown that glyphosate has no reported link to cancer and since the lawsuit against Monsanto, the chemical is now seen as a cancer-causing agent.
Do doctors are even scientist know the true causes of cancer? A research conducted by Stanford Health Care states that there is no one single cause for cancer. Scientists believe that it is the interaction of many factors together that produces cancer. The factors involved may be genetic, environmental, or constitutional characteristics of the individual (“What Causes Cancer?”, 2020).
