The Highwire with Del Bigtree - WINNING THE WAR ON MONSANTO

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

In a sea of bleak news stories, a huge legal win against Monsanto is a reason to celebrate. The courts have finally acknowledged the negative impact of glyphosate on human health. Go back in time with Del to review The Highwire’s long history reporting on this dangerous chemical, and how this latest legal case could finally hold Monsanto responsible.#Monsanto #Glyphosate #EPABecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

When darkness has taken over, when people are not thinking clearly, and when they're starting to move for all of the wrong reasons, when the financial interests of industry have so taken over your government agencies, it seems like there is nothing you can do. It seems completely hopeless. But I want to tell you that I'm a freaking warrior man. And I am not putting up with that. I'm not afraid of these jerks. I never have been. And that's why I want to show you about a win, a subject just. like this, one of the biggest, in fact, the biggest chemical company in the world with the most ubiquitous chemical put on all of our foods, a huge win has just happened. But just to give you some insight into how long I, in the high wire, and even all the way back when I was on CBS and the doctors, I've been fighting this company, Monsanto. Here's what that looks like. This is a story that I covered back when the World Health Organization had first ruled that glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to human beings. I decided I wanted to try and do that story

on the doctor's television show. Anytime you hear the word cancer associated with food, rightly so it raises concerns. You know, I'm a scientist at Monsanto for 20 years, and this has been the molecule that I've studied all of those years, and I'm absolutely confident of the data behind it. Many scientists who reviewed their research have declared it tobacco science,

catching them red-handed, specifically designing, their studies to avoid finding problems. There's different ways that we look at the data and if we had any indication or any concerns about the safety of this product, we wouldn't be putting it out there. At the front of this, the lawyer that is driving this, Brent Wisner, you're joining me today. Dwayne Lee Johnson was a groundskeeper at the Benicia School District in Northern California. Part of his job was to spray around him. Then he would spray about 150 gallons in one morning.

Wow. A lot of exposure, a lot of drift on him. You know, those San Francisco wins. After about two years, he got a rash. And the rash spread and spread and spread. That's a rare and very deadly form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that manifests in the skin. And it spread over 80% of his body.

We expedited his case to trial, and it became the first one to go to a jury. It's the first time all this evidence really saw the light of day. Thousands of cases now lining up and paying out billions in court, Because as always, our regulatory agencies didn't protect us. They didn't look out for us. The manufacturers of this chemical that's on 80 to 90% of our food were lying.

You know, news flash. The jury awarded unanimously punitive damages, and we have a $2 billion verdict against them, which is two billion with a B. Yes, right. I was shocked, you know, at what I found. The last decade or two sort of of corruption, collusion, about overreaching, about overriding their own scientists with respect to certain pesticides. Los Santos is the same company that was making DDT and Agent Orange.

It led the attack to deny whites and deny compensation to the tens of thousands of American veterans who have been exposed in Vietnam. The corporate mentality of arrogance and aggression, misogyny, and complete disregard for public health. This is a very dangerous situation for America because clearly by looking at these emails, they don't put our public health at the first and foremost. They are not interested in our health. They're interested in growing their profits.

We are a modern society. We can, you know, there are all sorts of ways to do things better. We've got to start demanding it. We've got to start demanding it with our wallets. We've got to start demanding it from the politicians that we vote for. I think we're going to see all of these changes in our time. We're either going to lose this in my lifetime. They're happening right now.

Yes. It's on. I mean, I've been on this beat. My executive producer, Jen Sherry, continued the investigations at the doctors before she came over here. We've been really dedicated to this conversation. Can you believe, I mean, you've seen the headlines, you've watched our show. We fight not just pharmaceutical anything. Our mission statement is dedicated to eradicating man-made disease like non-Hodgkin's lymphoma being caused by something you were told was safe that you picked up at the heart.

hardware store. Can you believe after the billions of dollars of losses in lawsuits with this product, promising essentially, okay, we're going to take it off the shelves, that your own regulatory agency that's in charge of this, after seeing billions paid out, all the science now showing this thing causes cancer, the WHO ruling that is probably carcinogenic to human beings, the second highest cancer rating there is second only to it kills you with cancer causes cancer second highest rating that your own regulatory agency the EPA saw all of that and we saw this headline EPA glyphosate is not carcinogenic the US EPA says this is our problem folks it's not Monsanto it's not bear it's not Pfizer it's not Moderna it's ASIP it's the FDA it's the CDC it's these

regulatory agencies that are clearly taking payouts or getting jobs when they leave to go make millions and millions of dollars for these evil companies that don't care about us. But look, I don't think we can eradicate evil companies from our planet, but certainly our regulatory agencies are supposed to be protecting us from them, not working for them, which is what the EPA clearly did. Our own regulatory, government regulatory agency said, don't worry about this Monsanto. So we don't care about those people either. We're going to go ahead and tell the world it's safe. Well, guess what?

The courts have stepped up. There were many groups, many environmental groups, that said, no, that is ridiculous. We are fighting the EPA on that statement. It went to court. Here's the headlines. U.S. EPA ordered to reassess glyphosate's impact on health and the environment. In a three zero decision, the ninth U.S. Circuit. Court of Appeals agreed with several environmental farm worker and food safety advocacy groups

that the EPA did not adequately consider whether glyphosate causes cancer and threatens endangered species. So there you have it. This is why courtrooms are so important. This is why the lawsuits we're bringing are so important. We can report on it. We can prove it. We can show you the science, but our regulatory agencies don't care, which is why we have been taking them to court. It's why when we win against the National Institute of Health, when we win against Health and Human Services, when you win against the CDC, these things matter. In fact, in some ways, it's the only thing that does. But that's a glimmer of hope. The courts are moving in the right direction. Louis Gohmert opened up this show to show you that politicians are waking up and they're looking

at their protections, the 1986 vaccine injury compensation program, the PEP Act. They're all in the sites of politicians now. And guess what? We're We've got elections coming up. I'm not going to tell you who to vote for. Well, I'm just going to say, you better be asking these questions. Are you going to investigate the Wuhan Lab League? Are you going to investigate Tony Fauci? Are you going to investigate the FDA and the CDC that have been lying to us about this?

Are you going to pass laws to put liability back on the industry that keeps doing studies, erasing their placebo groups, and then rushing these dangerous products into our babies? Because if you're not, I'm not voting for you. That's where this is at.