Dewayne Johnson, a Bay Area groundskeeper, suffered from rashes in 2014 and wondered if they were caused by the herbicide he'd been using. As his health deteriorated, Johnson became the face of a David-and-Goliath legal battle to hold multi-national agrochemical corporation Monsanto accountable for a product with allegedly misleading labelling. Roundup, which is sold in more than 130 nations, is a glyphosate-based herbicide, and has been a signature product for Monsanto for over four decades. Scientists raised concerns about its environmental impact and carcinogenic properties, but Monsanto’s deep-pocketed corporate lawyers, lobbyists and marketers deflected numerous studies and
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