爆炸性：孟山都'知情地毒害工人'造成毀滅性的出生缺陷

爆炸性：孟山都'知情地毒害工人'造成毀滅性的出生缺陷
Explosive: Monsanto 'Knowingly Poisoned Workers' Causing Devastating Birth Defects
Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Translation by Autumnson Blog

In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and subsequently caused "devastating birth defects" in their children.
在一份剛由法院新聞通訊社解除的發展中新聞片，孟山都由阿根廷的數十名菸農帶到法庭，他們說該生物技術巨頭知情地以除草劑和殺蟲劑毒害他們，並隨後在他們的孩子中造成“毀滅性”的出生缺陷。
The farmers are now suing not only Monsanto on behalf of their children, but many big tobacco giants as well. The birth defects that the farmers say occurred as a result are many, and include cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, psychomotor retardation, missing fingers, and blindness.
農民現正在以子女的名義起訴不僅是孟山都，以及許多大煙草巨頭。農民說作為結果發生的出生缺陷是許多多面，包括腦癱、唐氏綜合症、精神運動遲緩、失去手指和失明。
The farmers come from small family-owned farms in Misiones Province and sell their tobacco to many United States distributors. The family farmers say that major tobacco companies like the Philip Morris company asked them to use Monsanto’s herbicides and pesticides, assuring them that the products were safe. Through asserting that the toxic chemicals were safe, the farmers state in their claim that the tobacco companies "wrongfully caused the parental and infant plaintiffs to be exposed to those chemicals and substances which they both knew, or should have known, would cause the infant offspring of the parental plaintiffs to be born with devastating birth defects."
農民來自米西奧內斯省的小型家庭農場，和出售他們的煙草給許多美國分銷商。家庭農民說大煙草公司像菲利普·莫里斯公司，要求他們使用孟山都的除草劑和殺蟲劑，安撫他們產品是安全的。通過斷言有毒化學品是安全的，農民在他們的索賠指出，煙草公司“錯誤地造成原告父母和嬰兒被暴露於那些化學品和物質，他們兩者都知道，或者應當已知道，會導致原告父母的嬰兒後代出生帶着毀滅性的出生缺陷。“
The majority of the farmers in the area used Monsanto’s Roundup, an herbicide with the active ingredient glyphosate that has shown to be killing human kidney cells. What’s more, the farmers say that the tobacco companies pushed Monsanto’s Roundup on the farmers despite a lack of protective equipment.

In other words, these farmers — many in dire economic conditions — were being directly exposed to Roundup in large concentrations without any protective gear (or even experience or skills in handling the substance). Still, the farmers say the tobacco giants required the struggling farmers to "purchase excessive quantities of Roundup and other pesticides."

Most shocking, the farmers were ordered to discard leftover herbicides and pesticides in locations in which they leached directly into the water supply. With Monsanto’s Roundup already known to be contaminating the groundwater, this comes as a serious threat to pure water supplies.

The farmers end their landmark case with an explanation as to why the tobacco companies allowed Monsanto’s herbicides and pesticides to be unloaded on the small family farms in such vast quantities and purchased in excessive amounts.

In their claim, the farmers state that the tobacco companies were "motivated by a desire for unwarranted economic gain and profit," with zero regard for the farmers and their infant children — many of which are now suffering from severe birth defects from Monsanto’s products.

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/04/explosive-monsanto-knowingly-poisoned.html