Roundup faces its judges

"Glyphosate": remember this word. It refers to the active ingredient in the world's most widely used pesticide in fields and gardens, marketed primarily under the Roundup brand by the agri-food giant Monsanto. A pesticide that should be banned urgently, for our health and that of our soils. Continuing her investigation into the dangers of the multinational's toxic products, Marie-Monique Robin reveals in this shocking book one of the biggest health and environmental scandals in modern history.
Glyphosate sickens or kills soils, plants, animals and humans, because the herbicide is found everywhere: in the air, water, earth, food… Having been recognized as a “probable carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the product is also an endocrine disruptor, a powerful antibiotic and a metal chelator, making several heavy metals soluble in water. It is causing victims all over the world, as shown by the interviews conducted by the author in the United States, Argentina, France and Sri Lanka, including with numerous scientists: asthma, diabetes and cancers in populations living near GM soybean fields in Argentina; kidney disease in rice farmers in Sri Lanka (the only country to have banned glyphosate from its territory); malformation and sterility in animals fed with GMOs, etc.
Faced with the lack of will from agencies and governments to put an end to this silent poisoning, civil society is mobilizing: the International Monsanto Tribunal was held in The Hague in 2016, where judges and victims heard the Roundup trial. Monsanto refused to participate. Providing the thread running through this book and the documentary of the same name, the trial led to a legal opinion to have the crime of "ecocide" recognized under international law, which would allow for criminal prosecution of the executives of the companies responsible.