Roundup

Bayer acquired Monsanto in 2018 and was ordered to pay $2.25 billion to a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from exposure to the company’s Roundup weedkiller. The verdict includes $250 million in compensation and $2 billion in punitive damages that sends a message that the company needs to change.

Bayer was ordered to pay $1.65 billion to three plaintiffs who were diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma that they alleged was caused by using Roundup pesticide on their family property. Bayer purchased Monsanto in 2018 and maintains that Roundup is safe for human use.

Colin Todhunter Between 1991 and 2016, the population of Delhi and its suburbs increased from 9.4 million to 25 million. In 2023, the World Population Review website estimates Delhi’s population to be 32.9 million. In the December 2016 paper Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands, it was projected that by 2030, globally, …

Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter The volume of pesticide use and exposure is occurring on a scale that is without precedent and world-historical in nature. Agrichemicals are now pervasive as they cycle through bodies and environments. The herbicide glyphosate has been a major factor in driving this increase in use. These statements appear in a …

Mises Institute, June 8, 2021 Guatemala: The Human Rights Nightmare That Is the US Drug War by James Bovard Vice President Kamala Harris visited Guatemala earlier this week to bestow millions of dollars in new foreign aid on that government. The Biden administration is pretending that giving more US tax dollars to Central American governments […]
The post Guatemala Human Rights Ravaged by U.S. Drug War appeared first on James Bovard.

Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public: We’ve all got to be clear; this is the worst public health crisis for a generation. Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, an ongoing government-backed fear campaign, fundamental rights being stripped away, dissent censored, inflated …

Incredible as it may seem, the EPA continues to claim that glyphosate does not cause cancer. Therefore, the company will continue to sell the weedkiller and will not add a cancer warning to the product label. In summary: This settlement will put a stop to all future claims no matter how many deaths are involved.

The United States Department of Agriculture is currently considering approving a new Monsanto corn genetically engineered to be used with five deadly herbicides. The vast majority of soy and corn grown in the United States is Monsanto’s patented Roundup Ready product. Roundup is the trade name of glyphosate, a chemical agent widely accepted as causing cancer in humans, including by the World Health Organization and the State of California.

Six new cases were scheduled but have been put on hold as Monsanto/Bayer is hoping to settle all present and future cases for $10-billion. Bayer faces more litigation tied to Monsanto that claim the company polluted dozens of bodies of water decades ago with PCBs.

A Canadian law firm, representing 60 plaintiffs who allege that RoundUp weed killer caused their illnesses that include cancer, has filed a $500 million class-action lawsuit against pharmaceutical company Bayer, the owner of Roundup manufacturer, Monsanto.