Posted March 21, 2019 5:30 pm by Comments

By David Codrea

What role did PR Director Watts play during her watch?

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “A jury found that a man developed cancer from exposure to Roundup weedkiller he used in his yard, in the second case to go to trial over the alleged harms of the popular Bayer AG product,” The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

The first case was one reported in AmmoLand Shooting Sports News last August when a California jury found the company’s products containing the chemical compound glyphosate, “‘contributed’ substantially” to groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson’s terminal cancer. The reason for reporting on that here is that Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action was a high-profile communications executive for Monsanto.

Her LinkedIn profile I referenced at the time of that report documented Watts was Vice President of Corporate and Public Affairs Company for PR firm Fleishman-Hillard from 1998 to 2001, claiming she “Directed [a] seven-member team that identified and managed issues and crises for clients, including Monsanto Company [and] Bayer Corporation.” From 2001 to 2004 she assumed the position of Director, Global Public and Corporate Affairs Company for Monsanto, where Watts says she “Provided corporate communications strategy and support for Fortune …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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