Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant Says “Roundup is Not a Carcinogen”

by Christina Sarich, Natural Society:

In a recent interview, the CEO of Monsanto, Hugh Grant, claims that Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup is not carcinogenic. This claim goes against numerous evaluations of Roundup and its ingredients concluding that glyphosate – a primary ingredient in Roundup – is indeed carcinogenic. Are we to believe Hugh Grant, the CEO of one of the most hated companies in the world, or 94 distinct scientists around the world concerning glyphosate’s cancerous nature?

As actor Mark Ruffalo has stated, it isn’t easy to watch Grant ‘slime his way through an interview’ discussing Roundup and Monsanto’s GE crops. Now, we are to believe the CEO of one of the most hated companies in the world when he says that Monsanto’s flagship product isn’t cancerous?

When Grant recently sat down with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson for a wide-ranging, two-part interview concerning Monsanto’s latest public dilemma – a slew of lawsuits against polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination – he said very clearly, “Roundup is not a carcinogen.”

The evidence is quite damning, though. More than 94 scientists around the world say that glyphosate surely is carcinogenic. And since glyphosate has been named as the most used herbicide EVER, it might be good to take Grant’s assurance with a grain of salt. This is, after all, the same man that said ‘hubris’ and ‘naivety’ were the reasons that the public fears GM crops so much, at the same time admitting the company has done little to assuage those fears.

As Newsweek pointed out:

“The journal Environmental Sciences Europe reveals that Americans have applied 1.8 million tons of glyphosate since its introduction in 1974. Worldwide, 9.4 million tons of the chemical have been sprayed onto fields. For comparison, that’s equivalent to the weight of water in more than 2,300 Olympic-size swimming pools. It’s also enough to spray nearly half a pound of Roundup on every cultivated acre of land in the world.”

Yikes.

Monsanto doesn’t seem to care that the majority of this herbicide use has been in the last 10-15 years, which means its true ramifications for causing cancer and other disease won’t be discovered for possibly another decade. One can see a pattern here; as with other Monsanto products, aspartame, DDT, Agent Orange, PCBs – we don’t get to know how the company is poisoning us until after the damage is done.

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