CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Jury selection (click title to entry - thank you) in the class-action lawsuit against Monsanto will begin next week after no settlement was reached during about eight hours of mediation Tuesday, the lead plaintiffs' attorney confirmed.
Residents allege in a class-action case, filed in 2004, that Monsanto unsafely burned dioxin wastes and spread contaminated soot and dust across Nitro, polluting homes with unsafe levels of the chemical.
The lawsuit set to begin next week will seek medical monitoring for at least 5,000 - and perhaps as many as 80,000 - current and former Nitro residents....
And why is it these huge corporations always believe they 'can do better in court?' When is mediation not really mediation? When it is a stall tactic.
...Before Putnam Circuit Judge O.C. Spaulding recused himself from hearing the case after being diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, he ruled that residents could not sue collectively to seek remediation of homes they allege are contaminated with dioxin.
On Tuesday, several hundred plaintiffs gathered at the Marriott hotel in Charleston for a court-ordered mediation. Circuit Judges Booker Stephens of McDowell County and Alan D. Moats of Taylor County attempted to resolve the case to avoid trial.
A mediation held in October also failed to produce a settlement....
GMO is genetically modified organism, sometimes known as GMO Foods or GEO, Genetically Engineered Organism. Do you know what is on your kitchen and dining room tables this holiday season? There is a very good chance the average consumer has no idea.
GMO is genetically modified organism, sometimes known as GMO Foods or GEO, Genetically Engineered Organism. Do you know what is on your kitchen and dining room tables this holiday season? There is a very good chance the average consumer has no idea.
12/01/2011 @ 3:05PM
With GMO Labels Still Missing, Look for the Opposite (click here)
...“The denial of food labeling is linked directly to a food dictatorship by Monsanto Corporation,” Vandana Shiva, an activist and the Right2Know keynote speaker said in a statement, voicing a common opinion.
Monsanto, a biotech company whose products have included saccharin, Agent Orange, DDT, nuclear weapons, aspartame and Roundup weed killer, controls the majority of the world’s seeds and reportedly 90% of the world’s GM crops. It alters its seeds so that fields can be sprayed with its Roundup herbicide, killing weeds and bugs but leaving the farmer’s crop standing. The vast majority of corn, soy beans, milk, canola and cotton for cotton seed oil are now GM, and it’s estimated that 75% to 80% of foods in grocery stores are currently GM as a result....
