How will – and should – the recent Monsanto Roundup decision affect Davis?
September 04, 2018
A few weeks ago, a jury awarded $289 million in damages to a California school groundskeeper, finding that his cancer was caused by on-the-job exposure to Monsanto’s pesticide Roundup, the main active ingredient of which is glyphosate. How will this affect Davis? How should it?
Recall that, in a rather messy and prolonged process, the Davis City Council voted to “phase out” the use of glyphosate. But where is the City in that process? Do we even have an IPM specialist to replace Martin Guerena (who stepped down many months ago after being ill-treated by the City), i.e., someone who could oversee this phase out and report on it?
And does the phase out need to be accelerated? Or should it occur immediately?
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