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Letter from dead EPA scientist Marion Copley reveals Monsanto's bribes to
hide scientific evidence of glyphosate causing cancer
Erin Elizabeth
Health Nut News
Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:24 UTC
Monsanto
The Environmental Protection Agency has been involved in a number of
controversies over the years, such as the Gold King Mine spill or their
silence on the use of fracking wastewater on farmland. Now, the federal
agency is under fire for their collusion with one of the world's most evil
companies: Monsanto.
Monsanto has become infamous for their genetically modified seeds, and for
manufacturing one of the most widely used herbicides, Roundup. Their star
weed-killer has gained notoriety of its own, thanks to its toxic active
ingredient, glyphosate. While the corporate behemoth claims that the product
is safe, there is much evidence to the contrary; even the World Health
Organization has declared that glyphosate is a "probable carcinogen." But
like all soulless corporations, Monsanto has been using their prowess to
keep the lid on glyphosate's carcinogenic nature. But all good times must
come to an end, and a revealing letter from a now-deceased EPA scientist
could hopefully be the beginning of Monsanto's end.
USRTK, a non-profit working for accountability in our nation's food system,
originally uncovered a heart-breaking letter former EPA scientist Marion
Copley, who passed away from cancer. In this letter, Copley begs fellow EPA
employee Jess Rowland to protect the public from glyphosate's toxic nature,
rather than continue to cow-tow to Monsanto's influence. "For once in your
life, listen to me and don't play your political conniving games with the
science to favor the registrants. For once do the right thing and don't make
decisions based on how it affects your bonus," Copley writes.
She went on to state that Rowland and another EPA employee, Anna Lowit,
intimidated the staff on CARC (Cancer Assessment Review Committee) and
altered the MI ARC and IIASPOC final reports to favor the industry. Lowit is
still working for the EPA, and Copley's letter warns that other scientists
within the EPA may also be taking bribes.
"Your Nebraska colleague took industry funding, he clearly has a conflict of
interest. Just promise me not to ever let Anna on the CARC committee, her
decisions don't make rational sense. If anyone in OPP is taking bribes, it
is her," Copley states.
The unsealed court documents also reveal that Monsanto has been working with
scientists at the EPA to conceal the true nature of glyphosate. While the
company has denied this, an email clearly shows that Monsanto's toxicology
manager William Heydens conspired to help ghostwrite the EPA's reports on
glyphosate. Specifically, Heydens suggested that Monsanto would ghostwrite
the Exposure Tox and Genetox sections of the documents, supposedly to "keep
the cost down."
Rowland also reportedly set out to "kill" another agency's investigation of
glyphosate's toxicity. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease was
intending to conduct their own analysis of the chemical, but their report
never did surface. A Monsanto employee relayed their conversation with
Rowland via email, and quoted Rowland as saying, "If I can kill this I
should get a medal."
In her dying letter, Copley describes a number of mechanisms by which
glyphosate could cause cancer. In fact, Copley states that with the evidence
she describes, "It is essentially certain that glyphosate causes cancer."
Among the things she describes, Copley notes that glyphosate is genotoxic —
a quality she says is essential for cancer formation, and that it induces
free radical formation and causes damage to the bacterial populations of the
gut. According to Copley, because glyphosate was initially formulated as a
chelating agent, it produces many similar effects which can be toxic to
humans, suppress the immune system, and cause cancer.
Copley couldn't have been the only person at the EPA to put all the pieces
together and see the true toxicity glyphosate possesses — and it's clear
that Monsanto has done their best to obfuscate the facts on their cancer-
causing chemical. But will they face punishment for their obvious crimes?
Read more stories about glyphosate at Glyphosate.News. |
