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Ameliorate My Ass
By: Robert Howard, AKA AOJ The always generous Glyphosate Girl has once again asked me to write an entry for her blog. I had to think about her request, which was prompted by the widely reported good news that a California Court of Appeal fully upheld the $87 million verdict in Pilliods v Monsanto. Why did…
An EPA Gut Renovation
A few years ago, a deluge of neurological, gastrointestinal, ophthalmological, and dermatological symptoms presented in my body. Numerous doctors dismissed me as an anxious hypochondriac. Several medicated me, but none found anything clearly wrong in my labs or brain scans. Finally, I realized that my issues stemmed from gut dysbiosis and intestinal permeability. I began…
It’s a Cold Day in July
A neighbor sprays Roundup around his pristine, impressive flowerbed that runs along the front of his property. I am lucky that I was tipped off on the frequency of his spraying, because I have since changed the walking route that I take with my two puppies. But as of 2023, I might be able to…
What, Me Worry?
My husband is a stickler for North Carolina BBQ (Note: not Texas, not Alabama, just the North Carolina style). When we became homeowners several years ago, we invested in a Big Green Egg BBQ even before we bought blinds for our bedroom. Years later, we were at our neighbor’s house for a cocktail party, and…
The Old One Two Punch
The Latest From AOJ So, full disclosure, I have received money now and then from class action settlements. You know the kind—you get a postcard or email that asks if you owned an iPhone in the 21st century, or bought health insurance from any of an array of ripoff artists, I mean corporations. Alas, the…
AS BAYER SOWS, SO BAYER SHALL REAP
I began Glyphosate Girl nearly three years ago, in June 2018. I walked into a relatively quiet courtroom with an iced tea and sat in near disbelief as Winning Wisner and Delightful Dickens laid out a case divulging Monsanto’s abhorrent corporate behavior. Three jury verdict victories later, momentum stoked the flames in the bellies of…
The Abomination Zone
BY ROBERT HOWARD, AKA AOJ, AKA JOHNSON JUROR #4 Let’s just call Roundup what it is: a disaster that has been foisted upon humanity by the likes of Monsanto and Bayer. It is an environmental and humanitarian disaster which so many dedicated and right-minded people have worked for decades to mitigate. A person might think…well,…
Tell The EPA
Please remember that comments on the EPA’s Draft Biological Evaluation on Glyphosate are due to the EPA this FRIDAY MARCH 12th. We need everyone to submit some words to encourage the EPA to do the right thing and phase out Roundup. The background on the Evaluation can be found in my previous post: My submission…
Create & Cure (& Profit From Both)
Our refrigerator gave out on us this week. The Covid year of four permanent residents in the home, opening and closing the refrigerator door with hopes that something unusually tasty will appear, finally wore down the compressor. It turns out that many brands of refrigerators – and appliances of all kinds – are backordered for…
WAKE-UP AND SMELL THE GLYPHOSATE
By Robert Howard, AKA AOJ, AKA Johnson Juror #4 I’m sort of a morning person—it’s my favorite time of day—but I don’t just spring out of bed ready to take on the world, or remodel someone’s kitchen, as the case may be. The process of waking up is, for me, pretty much the same every…
Glyphosate & My COVID Clothes
I’m so incredibly tired of my sad loungewear collection that I’ve worn every day for the last year. Most of it is tie-dyed, a trend that for some reason has experienced a massive explosion in popularity over the last year. My increasingly embarassed-by-mom tween daughter asked me not to wear them anymore – and added…
Like Kissing Your Sister
For new followers of Glyphosate Girl, I would like to reintroduce Robert Howard (AKA AOJ), who served as Juror #4 in the landmark Johnson v Monsanto bellwether trial in 2018. I am fortunate that he continues to be a frequent contributor to this blog. Today, he updates us on the status of Lee Johnson’s settlement,…