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Monsanto may soon be forced to pay as much as 7.5 billion dollars back to the farmers who say that the mega corporation took their rightfully earned income and taxed their small businesses to financial shambles.
It all started with a monumental lawsuit launched by over 5 million farmers against Monsanto looking to recover financial losses from ridiculous seed taxes that bankrupted many families.
Back in April, a Brazilian court ruled that Monsanto absolutely was responsible for paying back the exorbitant amounts of cash to the farmers, ordering the company to issue back all of the taxes collected since 2004 — a minimum of 2 billion dollars. Afterwards, Monsanto appealed the decision and the case is now suspended until a further hearing is initiated by the Justice Tribune of the local court stationed in Rio Grande do Sul.
Recently, however, the Brazilian Supreme Court declared that any decision reached in a local court case should apply nationally. The result? Monsanto now faces even larger charges, due to the larger legal application on a national level. Now, the charges total or exceed 7.5 billion dollars.
“The values involved could total 15 billion reais ($7.5bn),” said the Superior Tribunal of Justice on its website.
Lawsuits and criminal charges continue to hit Monsanto, scratching away at the financial foundation of the agricultural behemoth.
Monsanto has been found guilty of chemical poisoning in France after their weedkiller product led to neurological problems, and the company has even dished out 93 million to victims of toxic dioxin.
As Monsanto continues to be slammed with lawsuits, many of which are from multitudes of affected farmers and individuals, awareness spreads among the general public regarding the corporation’s true acts.
It was this same corporation that was caught running what has been labeled slave rings, in which workers were forced to work for 14 hours or more per day cultivating the fields, and were not permitted to leave. Monsanto’s crimes are slowly coming to light, and the public is demanding action.
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This article first appeared at Natural Society, an excellent resource for health news and vaccine information.
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9 comments:
This is the first great read I've had about these slimey bastards. I hope they get sued out of business for playing God, destroying the little guy and the lives of those connected to and affected by this sleeze bag company. They stand for evil and are just one part of what is wrong on this planet!
Oh, I hope Monsanto crumbles and like dust in the wind, blows the fuck away...
The world has been poisoned enough, too much, and now the world should bring that 'point' home, right into the heartless Monsanto corporation that has destroyed so much for so many.
I am so glad to hear this news after all of the horrible things I have read about this company. Not only destroying the livihood of millions of farmers worldwide, but they should be held responsible for the suicide of those farmers in India that lost everything and took their own lives because they could not compete with the likes of Monsanto.
I hope the little guys succeed against this evil company....I am amazed everyday by how few people actually are even aware of Monsanto or the evil they spread world wide.
End My satan, whoops, monsanto!
Take military action against Monsanto and the FDA! They are fascist pigs!
Sooooo happy to know this. USA should sue them next and India and all the other countries that they infect.
Bringing down monsanto is a lot easier in the rest of the world. In America they have such a revolving door at all levels of the government and media. Which of course are both as corrupt as monsanto anyway. America needs to collapse before any meaningful change happens here at home. After the collapse we will be able to go after those who caused it, until then they (the 1%) will continue to strangle the 99% for as much as they can, so they can flee to other countries and try to hide with their stolen wealth and deserved shame. Hitler was defeated the Nazis moved to DC. It's a fact, look it up.
Thank you Brazil. We must go after American Satanist next, the politicians, bankers, oil cartels, Shell, ExxonMobile, BP, etc., the "Fracking" industry, the Chemtrail industry, deforestation, mountaintop removers, nuclear plant industry, etc., Glory Be To Creation!
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