{"id":50936,"date":"2018-07-24T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/24\/monsantos-cancer-causing-weedkiller-destroyed-my-life-dying-man-tells-court\/"},"modified":"2018-07-24T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T00:38:12","slug":"monsantos-cancer-causing-weedkiller-destroyed-my-life-dying-man-tells-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=50936","title":{"rendered":"Monsanto&#039;s &#039;cancer-causing&#039; weedkiller destroyed my life, dying man tells court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Testifying in landmark trial, former school groundskeeper describes suffering allegedly caused by company\u2019s chemicalsDewayne Johnson said that if he had known what he knew now about Roundup weedkiller, \u201cI would\u2019ve never sprayed that product on school grounds &#8230; if I knew it would cause harm &#8230; It\u2019s unethical.\u201dJohnson, a former school groundskeeper in northern California who is terminally ill, was testifying Monday in his landmark suit against Monsanto about the cancer risks of the company\u2019s popular weedkiller. He is the first person to take the agrochemical company to trial over allegations that the chemical sold under the Roundup brand is linked to cancer. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/jul\/23\/monsanto-trial-dewayne-johnson-cancer-roundup-weedkiller\" target=\"_blank\">Monsanto&#039;s &#039;cancer-causing&#039; weedkiller destroyed my life, dying man tells court<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testifying in landmark trial, former school groundskeeper describes suffering allegedly caused by company\u2019s chemicalsDewayne Johnson said that if he had known what he knew now about Roundup weedkiller, \u201cI would\u2019ve never sprayed that product on school grounds &#8230; if I knew it would cause harm &#8230; It\u2019s unethical.\u201dJohnson, a former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}