The dog of mine that died of cancer in February, Loki, we figure contracted his lymphoma from sticking his big nose into leaves freshly sprayed with Roundup. The supermarket near my house sprayed the weeds around it and didn't bother to put up signs to warn the neighborhood. The next week or two after he jumped around those plants and gave the plants a heavy-duty go over with his nose, the plants started dying. My wife and I noticed and thought, "oh shit" since the dog we had before him had died at 15, but rather quickly and we suspected it was the spraying that the supermarket did. For our previous dog, she was old, so we didn't bother to have her illness diagnosed by a vet, but we kind of figured it was cancer. As a result, we tried to keep Loki out of the plants growing by the supermarket, but he was very demanding and insisted of getting his nose into the greenery before we could stop him.

Anyway, when I read about the gardener who sued Monsanto and won his case, it reminded me of Loki since he also had Lymphoma like the guy who sued Monsanto. I used to live on a farm and back in the 70s we were using Roundup on our fields, and even then, there were numerous studies that linked it to cancer. At the time, I periodically got into arguments with my older brother and father concerning the heavy use of chemicals on our fields. Perhaps, the biggest reason I did not become a farmer was my aversion to the insane acceptance of corporation-produced chemicals by the average farmer. Yep, "slacking off is something" that may be a lot better than the alternative.