*SAMPLE LETTER TO ATTORNEYS GENERAL*
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Dear [Attorney General],
I am very disappointed to see that you have submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court for Monsanto v. Durnell for the pesticide company against its cancer victims.
Juries and judges have found that Monsanto acted with “malice, oppression or fraud.” Monsanto knew that its glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer, but it hid that from its customers.
Hundreds of thousands of farmers, farm workers, pesticide applicators, and groundskeepers exposed to Monsanto’s Roundup have contracted non-Hodgkin lymphoma, consistent with the scientific evidence reviewed by a panel of 17 scientists at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), who unanimously concluded that glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen.
If Monsanto wins this case, legal remedies will be denied to anyone killed or injured by any of the 57,000 pesticides approved for any use in the U.S. today, not just those used to kill weeds.
Your position is that the courts can’t contradict the Environmental Protection Agency, but the judiciary, as a co-equal branch of government, has the right to correct the fact that the EPA doesn’t put cancer warnings on pesticides, even the pesticides the EPA itself has determined are carcinogens.
The EPA routinely approves pesticide labels that fail to disclose known health risks.
The EPA recently approved Bayer’s label for Raxil®EverGol® Fungicide Seed Treatment, which contains tebuconazole, an endocrine disruptor associated with developmental, reproductive, neurological, and cancer risks. Although the EPA classifies tebuconazole as a potential carcinogen, the approved label includes no warning about cancer or any other serious health effect.
Another example is clofentezine. The EPA classifies it as a possible carcinogen, but doesn't require that to be put on the label. In 2023, clofentezine didn't get reauthorized by the EU because it is an endocrine disruptor that can cause cancer and birth defects.
The EPA has been Monsanto's partner in crime since it reversed the 1985 consensus position of eight EPA scientists that glyphosate was a Class C carcinogen.
In 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with Center for Food Safety against the EPA, overturning its determination that the toxic pesticide glyphosate is safe for humans and imperiled wildlife. The 54-page opinion found the Trump administration's 2020 interim registration of glyphosate was unlawful because the "EPA did not adequately consider whether glyphosate causes cancer and shirked its duties under the Endangered Species Act."
The EPA relied on unpublished, industry-funded studies to determine that glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans. In 2026, the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology retracted a 2000 study on glyphosate that Monsanto commissioned and the EPA used for support, citing "serious ethical concerns regarding the independence and accountability of the authors.” The study by Gary Williams, Robert Kroes and Ian Munro – which concluded glyphosate does not pose a health risk to humans at typical exposure levels – was ghostwritten by Monsanto employees, and was “based solely on unpublished studies from Monsanto,” according to the retraction by the publisher, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology. The retraction also noted that the paper ignored “multiple other long-term chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity studies” that were available at the time, and that the authors may also have received undisclosed financial compensation from Monsanto. Because of these problems, the editors of the journal “lost confidence in the results and conclusions of the article.”
The evidence that glyphosate causes cancer is strong:
* Increased rates of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma have been found in occupational exposure studies of workers who handled glyphosate in the US, Canada and Sweden.
* Cancers of the kidney, blood vessels, stomach and skin have been observed in laboratory studies of rats and mice exposed to glyphosate.
* Our bodies absorb glyphosate. This is indicated by the fact that glyphosate is found in the blood and urine of not only agricultural workers but also people in urban areas who are exposed to glyphosate through the food they eat.
* Our intestinal microbes metabolize glyphosate just like soil microbes do. When people are poisoned by glyphosate, aminomethylphosphoric acid (AMPA), a metabolite of glyphosate that’s found in contaminated soil and water, is found in their blood.
* Glyphosate and Roundup induce DNA and chromosomal damage in mammals, and in human and animal cells in vitro.
* Glyphosate, Roundup and AMPA induce oxidative stress in rodents and in vitro.
It's time to open your eyes to the suffering of Americans who have or will get cancer because of exposure to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide.
Please work to ban Roundup, all glyphosate-based herbicides, and all of the many pesticides that cause cancer or carry other life-threatening health risks.
Please oppose efforts to help Bayer escape liability for the deaths and injuries it is responsible for.
Thank you.
[Your Name]