Dewayne Johnson says glyphosate in weedkiller gave him cancer Josh Edelson/Pool via Reuters
Does weedkiller cause cancer? According to a ruling by a Californian court last week, yes. Monsanto, the agricultural chemicals company, has been ordered to pay $289 million to Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper who says his terminal cancer was caused by their products Roundup and RangerPro, which contain the chemical glyphosate.
The ruling has led to Greenpeace for sales of the weedkiller to be restricted and in Monsanto鈥檚 parent company Bayer to drop. Meanwhile, Th茅r猫se Coffey, an environment minister in the UK government, is …
