The people taking on the world's largest agricultural chemical company

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As thousands of cases against the makers of Roundup mount up in the US, a class action is about to test the product's standing in Australia.

"We were using pesticides, insecticides, but our predominant chemical was Roundup," he said.He is now the lead plaintiff in a class action against Monsanto, which is owned by Bayer.

"I just think it's a cause worth fighting for, and I'm not doing it as chasing money ... I'm just chasing what I lost." It's been compared to the cover-ups by big tobacco companies last century, but agribusiness giant Monsanto insists Roundup doesn't cause cancer.On the NSW central coast, Heather Slade said she heard about the cases in the United States and wanted to know if a class action was happening in Australia.Ms Slade started using Roundup on her farm in the 1970s and was diagnosed with NHL in 2011.

"I was just forever spraying either in the garden or on the gravel areas or through the orchard, so I did that for the 12, 13 years that we were on the farm regularly," she said. "There was nothing at all saying to use protective gear and that sort of thing — everyone just sprayed."

 

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