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Dear State Legislator,
Pesticide companies Bayer (Monsanto), BASF, Syngenta (ChemChina), and Corteva (DowDuPont) are lobbying the Supreme Court, Congress, and the Environmental Protection Agency to give them a nationwide liability shield. In the meantime, they're going state-by-state. In 2025, Georgia and Nebraska took the right to sue away from pesticide victims. So far in 2026, Bayer (Monsanto) has bills in Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
Consistently, these states have regions with the highest incidences of cancer, including by individual cancer type. Some are in the Midwestern Corn Belt and others also have heavy agricultural production. This evidence has led scientists to conclude that living in a farm town is as bad as smoking cigarettes. ("Comprehensive assessment of pesticide use patterns and increased cancer risk," 2024)
If these bills become law, they would block justice for anyone killed or injured by any of the 57,000 pesticides approved for any use in the U.S. today, not just those used on farms.
In 2015, a panel of 17 scientists at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), after reviewing the latest science on glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto Roundup weedkiller, unanimously agreed to reclassify the chemical as a probable human carcinogen.
Since then, approximately 170,000 claims have been filed. Bayer settled roughly 100,000 of those for $11 billion. The rest are working their way through the courts. In the 24 cases that have gone to trial, juries have awarded victims more than $8 billion. Bayer is on the hook for billions of dollars more for Monsanto's decision to act with “malice, oppression or fraud” to hide the fact that Roundup causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency has chosen to ignore IARC and the jury verdicts, relying on unpublished, industry-funded studies to determine that glyphosate is “Not Likely to be Carcinogenic to Humans.” 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 2025, the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology retracted a 25-year-old study on glyphosate that Monsanto commissioned and the EPA used for support, citing "serious ethical concernsregarding the independence and accountability of the authors.”
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.
Sincerely,
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