Jurors give $289 million to a man they say got cancer from Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller

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  1. Covfefe

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    Big corporations being held responsible for their dangerous practices will always be well deserved justice. Do your kids eat lots of cereal? Well, they are eating cancer.

    "So they awarded him $289 million in damages -- mostly to punish the agricultural company Monsanto.

    Dewayne Johnson's victory Friday could set a massive precedent for thousands of other cases claiming Monsanto's famous herbicide causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma."

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/health/monsanto-johnson-trial-verdict/index.html
     
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    Monsanto has been and always will be a scumdog organization. Isn't it outlawed in Russia?
     
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    Well, ya but that's just "business"....if it does well on Wall street, makes huge profits, then anything goes, anything is acceptable....profit is the ONLY important thing now.

    ( I don't think that's good but it's a fact)
     
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    Monsanto doesn't exist anymore
     
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    Ok, Bayer. Monsanto still exists, and the fact the right is ok with business poisoning and killing citizens is a stark representation of their ideology, wouldn't you agree?
     
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    Like, actually consuming round up, or consuming plants that have been properly cleaned and are now carcinogenic?
     
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    Don't hold your breath waiting for any payout.
     
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    That'll be news to Monsanto...
     
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    You mean Bayer.
     
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    People buy roundup because pulling weeds is tedious, time consuming work that people would rather not do.

    Your city and county maintenance departments usually choose something worse than roundup, along with state highway departments -- just watch them spray it close to water and in water -- dumb, dumb asses. Watch them spray it with rain coming in -- boss sits behind a desk, don't know shat, and they have to do what the boss says, there's a schedule to keep and the budget cannot be less next year.

    Modernity has a whole lot of scourges and plagues that come with it -- and most of those scourges and plagues allow people to avoid hard, physical labor -- with the bill coming due many years later.
     
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    Foods in the the stores were tested and found to have toxic levels of the chemcial. The article has a link to list of the foods.
     
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    This is why you need consumer protection

    This is why you need class actions.

    This is why we need to repeal and replace Republicans.
     
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    Missed the OP?

    Missed all the news sources that call it Monsanto?

    Missed how Monsanto is NOT saying NO, we're Bayer?
     
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    Baby snacks have heavy metals in them.

    Milk has radiation.

    That's modernity.

    It's a good thing people don't want to live forever.
     
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    Bayer bought Monsanto. Monsanto is now Bayer.
     
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    I have to say, I think this is pretty humorous. So, a jury entirely ignored the settled science that pretty well explains how this is not a carcinogen.. So, a jury "denied" the settled science, and went all emotional and the left are digging it... Oh to live in these times...
     
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    People will still buy and use roundup. If all herbicides are taken off the market people will go back to using spent crankcase oil diluted with gasoline.
     
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    Payout from who? Bayer? They're still on the hook for all the damage they've done. Personally, I am beginning to view the rights acceptance of blind corporate kleptocracy as enabling genocide.
     
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    I stopped to think about it a moment, and it occurred to me that if the progressive left can get roundup off the market, it creates an entirely new or expanded market for unskilled laborers and landscaping jobs.... And we wonder why that crowd all don't support the wall....
     
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    If you've smelled roundup you're instincts tell you that this shat could be bad, likely is bad. Ugly nasty smell.

    But without anyone putting a gun to their head people in Lowes buy roundup and use it, mostly use it beyond the label parameters, most never even read the label parameters -- which simple thing the government has made complicated in very fine print -- extremely difficult to read bureaucratese.

    People buy and use roundup because it is very, very convenient. It's modern convenience and people are going to use it.

    Buy it. Mix it however. Spray it with a squall coming in (be a dumb ass). You're done, quick and easy.
     
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    You make my point. Nobody's going to pay anything.
     
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    It's outlawed in most all of Europe, and it would be a big win(and help with the trade deficit) if the POTUS went in this direction. It'd be something we could all clap on to make non-GMO/Organic foods more affordable. It should be easy for every individual to shop at Whole Foods.
     
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    Whole Paycheck.
     
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    I see. Brings up the question of who to sue - the producer who didn't clean his produce adequately or the multinational who sold him the pesticide.

    Perhaps they should have given him better advice on how to wash his produce?
     
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    I'm 54 years old and grew up in my parents family owned plant nursery and was around insecticides, fungicides, and weed killers (round-up) my entire childhood.

    I still use these chemicals today in my own yard.

    And guess what? I, my wife and children are cancer free.

    This is just another attempt for the big-corporation-hating-crowd to stick it to big corporations.

    Meanwhile, these big-corporation-hating-people smoke dope, smoke cigarettes, do drugs, drink Alcohol, and eat fast food. Go figure.
     
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