What Monsanto’s Roundup Trials Teach Us About Justice in America

Reader Contribution by Douglas Dedrick and Healing Law
Published on July 13, 2020
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Photo by Vitor Dutra Kaosnoff from Pixabay

Over the last year and a half, we have watched the slow legal grind against Monsanto’s weed killer Roundup make tremendous progress (see my previous reporting for Mother Earth News). Perhaps most shocking, Bayer has now offered to settle the class action lawsuits with a lump sum of $10 billion. These trials are a major victory for the health and rights of people, and great news amid an ever chaotic world.

Today, however, I don’t want to talk too much about the Roundup trials themselves. Instead, let’s take a deeper look at what the Roundup trials show us about justice in America. And what these trials can teach us moving forward.

You Have a Right to Be Heard

The first lesson that the Roundup trials teach us, is that you legally have a right to be heard. And in this instance, I am not talking about protesting in the streets. Anyone who has been wronged can raise charges against another in court, whether the wrongdoer is a corporation like Monsanto or Bayer, or the government itself.

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