As a constituent in your district, I’m reminding you that hundreds of farmers and ag workers in our state have sued Bayer/Monsanto and ChemChina for developing cancer and Parkinsons after exposure to their chemicals. These cases represent a tiny fraction of the many hundreds of thousands of lawsuits they have faced around the world. Less than 1%.

No state has given these foreign chemical corporations liability protections for the harm they cause. Why would we do it? What will it accomplish? Shielding these foreign chemical giants from a tiny fraction of lawsuits do not change things for them, but it changes everything for farmers and ag workers who have been given a death sentence due to exposure. We have to stop House Bill 303 because it gives foreign chemical corporations like ChemChina total immunity for violating federal pesticide labeling requirements.

This HB 303 does nothing to help our state or our communities. It sends one message: that farmers and ag workers in all 49 other states retain their legal rights, but in our state, their lives are worth nothing.

Please vote against this immunity for the pesticide makers.