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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, April 20, 2017)\u00a0On Tuesday, the judges presiding over the International Monsanto Tribunal presented their legal opinion, delivering conclusions on the multinational corporation\u2019s impact on issues ranging from human rights, food access, environmental health, to\u00a0scientific research. In addition to Monsanto\u2019s impact on human rights, the judges concluded that if ecocide were recognized as an international criminal law, the corporation would possibly be found guilty. According to the Organic Consumers Association\u2019s press release<\/a>, one of the organizing groups behind the creation of the Tribunal, \u201cIt is likely that the [legal] conclusions will lead to more liability cases against Monsanto and similar companies. This will shine a light on the true cost of production and will affect Monsanto (Bayer) shareholder value in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The international judges determined<\/a> that, based on a legal analysis of the questions asked, Monsanto has engaged in practices that have negatively affected the right to a healthy environment, to food, and to health. In addition to these infringement of rights, Monsanto has had a negative effect on the right to freedom indispensable for scientific research with \u201cconduct such as intimidation, discrediting independent scientific research, [and] suborning false research reports.\u201d In the third part of its advisory opinion<\/a>, the Monsanto Tribunal interprets the \u201cwidening gap between international human rights law and corporate accountability\u201d and calls for both the UN and non-state authoritative bodies to protect international human and environmental rights law.<\/p>\n

The International Monsanto Tribunal<\/a> was established by the Monsanto Tribunal Foundation as an initiative of civil society groups to put Monsanto on trial for crimes against nature and humanity, and ecocide, and to hold the corporation accountable for these violations. The legal opinion delivered on Tuesday came after the judges heard testimony from experts, witnesses, and victims beginning in October 2016 in The Hague, Netherlands, home to the UN\u00a0International Court of Justice.<\/p>\n

Relying on the \u201cGuiding Principles on Business and Human Rights\u201d adopted by the UN in 2011, the five international judges assessed the potential criminal liability of Monsanto for damages inflicted on human health and the environment. The court also relied on the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2002, and considered whether to reform international criminal law to include crimes against the environment, or ecocide, as a prosecutable criminal offense.<\/p>\n

Monsanto is the producer of Roundup, a widely-used herbicide that contains the active ingredient\u00a0glyphosate<\/a>, a chemical that is classified as\u00a0a cancer-causing agent based on laboratory studies<\/a>\u00a0by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialized cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO). The corporation has developed and produced many other toxic chemicals, including: Lasso, an herbicide that is now banned in Europe; PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl), one of the 12 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) that affect human and animal fertility; and 2,4,5 T, a dioxin-containing component of the defoliant, Agent Orange, which was used by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and continues to cause birth defects and cancer.<\/p>\n

This international legal opinion follows on the heels of the lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0filed last week by Beyond Pesticides and Organic Consumers Association against Monsanto for misleading the public by labeling its popular weedkiller\u00a0Roundup\u00a0<\/a>as \u201ctarget[ing] an enzyme found in plants but not in people or pets.\u201d The lawsuit charges that Monsanto’s statement is false, deceptive, and misleading because the enzyme targeted by glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is, in fact, found in people and pets. Plaintiffs claim that Monsanto benefited monetarily from this false advertising campaign, as the company knew and intended that consumers would pay more for weed killer products claiming not to target people or pets, furthering Monsanto\u2019s private interest of increasing sales of Roundup and decreasing the sales of competing weed killer products that are truthfully marketed.<\/p>\n

The mounting evidence of glyphosate\u2019s hazards, as well as documentation of Monsanto\u2019s collusion with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials<\/a>, is piling up and environmental groups, like Beyond Pesticides, are urging localities to restrict or ban the use of the chemical. Beyond Pesticides promotes these actions and many more through the\u00a0Tools for Change<\/a>\u00a0webpage.\u00a0Consumers can also avoid glyphosate exposure by buying and supporting organic food and agriculture. Beyond Pesticides has long promoted the importance of organic in a sustainable food system, and works to promote the widespread transition of conventional farmland to organic production. To find out more about the work Beyond Pesticides is doing on organic integrity, check out\u00a0Keeping Organic Strong<\/a>,\u00a0or to see all the reasons to go organic, visit\u00a0Eating with a Conscience<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sources: teleSUR<\/a>, Phys.org<\/a><\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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