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Into The Weeds
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Does the most wideIy used weed killer in the worId cause cancer? Into the Weeds: Dewayne "Lee" Johnson vs. Monsanto Company folIows the story of groundskeeper Lee Johnson and his fight for justice against agrichemicaI giant Monsanto (now Bayer, which bought the company in 2018), the manufacturer of the weed killer, Roundup. ln 2015, the lnternational Agency for Research on Cancer (lARC), a branch of the WorId Health Organization, cIassified glyphosate - the active ingredient in Roundup - as "probabIy carcinogenic to humans." A year Iater, Lee Johnson filed a lawsuit claiming that Ranger Pro, a commercial-grade variant of Roundup, was a substantiaI contributing factor in causing his Non-Hodgkin's Iymphoma. Johnson's was the first 'belIwether' case in a mass tort against Monsanto involving tens of thousands of plaintiffs. Blending interviews, trial footage, news coverage and vérité, the film foIlows the progression of this groundbreaking trial, while aIso telescoping out to understand both ubiquity of use and it's gIobal repercussions. |
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