Monsanto is having a hard time against opposition to GMO technology in many countries around the globe. Reuters, via Pretoria News, carries this article today about a defeat for the biotech giant in a Lyon court today:

A French court on Monday declared US biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides.

In the first such case heard in court in France, grain grower Paul Francois, 47, says he suffered neurological problems including memory loss, headaches and stammering after inhaling Monsanto’s Lasso weedkiller in 2004.

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