amy: monsanto tried to discredit you, carey gillam, as you exposed monsanto? >> oh, yes. am one of many journalists they have gone after. they've gone after people at "the new york times" and feel at surprise winners, journalists at magazines around the world. -- pulitzer prize winners, journalists and magazines around the world. they targeted one who uncovers facts that are not beneficial to monsanto. , through freedom of information act request domestic record request, we have obtained documents from regulators and state universities and of course these internal monsanto documents that have come to light. you know, they really do show this ongoing decades -- i call it decades of deception. very strategic efforts by monsanto, others in the agrichemical industry, to own the science and to discredit anybody who tries to challenge them. amy: i want to thank you very much for being with us. we will continue to follow this story of thousands of lawsuits in the wings against monsanto after dewayne lee johnson was awarded close to $800 millioionn his lawsuit against monsanto ai

carey gillam is a journalist and author who has won an award for her book on monsanto and roundup.in bendigo australia, which is just north of melbourne. i suppose you see this as a triumph. the verdict is a vindication for scientists around the world who have spent years documenting the harms associated with this chemical and people like me, journalists and others who have worked to bring certain facts to live, certain risks that monsanto has tried to hide, it's a vindication that there are risks that have been hidden. but if you look at what the european commission has said, if you look at what the agencies in the united states have said, they said that as far as they can tell, those weedkillers are safe to use. right, and what we've seen is really remarkable because the litigation, thousands of pages, 10 million pages of m o nsa nto thousands of pages, 10 million pages of monsanto internal documents have come to light, and those that have been unsealed, it really eliminates what has gone on and we know that oui’ what has gone on and we know that our regulators in the united stat