The company’s marketing strategy involved labeling Gillam and other critics as “anti-glyphosate activists and pro-organic capitalist organizations”. Monsanto sought to monitor and discredit journalists and activists through use of an “intelligence fusion center”, a term used by law enforcement agencies for surveillance operations, according to documents seen by The Guardian. The company also investigated Canadian singer Neil Young and targeted Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated links between Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller and cancer. In the US, where glyphosate is widely used, it has been linked with cancer in thousands of people since its introduction more than 30 years ago. Within the last year, two juries in the US have ruled that Monsanto was responsible for plaintiffs’ blood cancers.
Monsanto sought to monitor and discredit journalists and activists through use of an “intelligence fusion center”, a term used by law enforcement agencies for surveillance operations, according to documents seen by The Guardian. The company also investigated Canadian singer Neil Young and targeted Carey Gillam, a Reuters journalist who investigated links between Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller and cancer. In the US, where glyphosate is widely used, it has been linked with cancer in thousands of people since its introduction more than 30 years ago. Within the last year, two juries in the US have ruled that Monsanto was responsible for plaintiffs’ blood cancers.