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

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  1. jay runner

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    You can never get all pesticides off of produce.

    Or get all pesticides out of your lungs if the Ag Cat Air Tractor is spraying while you drive down the interstates.

    It's a good thing people don't want to live forever.
     
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    From the link in the OP, which was ignored by some:


    """""""Judge reads final verdict in Monsanto case     01:32
    (CNN)San Francisco jurors just ruled that Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world, gave a former school groundskeeper terminal 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. """""""""
     
    FoxHastings, Aug 16, 2018
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    Monsanto still sold to Bayer.
     
    Polydectes, Aug 16, 2018
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    Too bad your rant didn't refute one word of my post you quoted:

    FoxHastings said: ↑
    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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    Bayer produced the Zyklon B the nazi’s used to gas the Jews with.
     
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    FoxHastings said: ↑
    From the link in the OP, which was ignored by some:


    """""""Judge reads final verdict in Monsanto case     01:32
    (CNN)San Francisco jurors just ruled that Roundup, the most popular weedkiller in the world, gave a former school groundskeeper terminal 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. """""""""




    This is so silly.....it MAY have been sold to Bayer, but like I said, it's STILL Monsanto....

    If Monsanto doesn't exist as YOU CLAIM, then why is everyone talking about MONSANTO ?
     
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    We need pesticides. I suppose we should search for more effective, less harmful ones.
     
    Steady Pie, Aug 16, 2018
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    okay
     
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    No it's Bayer.
     
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    :roflol::roflol::roflol: If it makes you happy to call it Bayer, go ahead, it makes no difference to anything under the sun....including lawsuits and payouts...


    Funny how everyone is wrong but you….
     
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    Remember the old ad in Mechanix Illustrated: Guaranteed potato bug killer, works 100%. Send $4 to P.O. Box XYZ, Wabash, IN.

    They sent two small blocks of wood. And it worked 100% of the time.

    Directions: Place potato bug on lower block, smash with upper block.
     
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    WTF?? The Rock has cancer?? He sure looks smaller in those pictures...

    On topic

    SNIP
    He testified that during his work, he had two accidents in which he was soaked with the product. The first accident happened in 2012.
    ENDSNIP

    Soaked with the product?? Uhhh, I'm pretty sure that is not on the directions for use...

    This sounds a little bogus to me...
     
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    Why the **** do you blame other people for your fricking problems?????

    Truly sick and disgusting to blame other people for the chit that happens in your life!!!!!
     
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    Some cause or another takes everybody out. It's a good thing people don't want to live forever.
     
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    I call a dog a dog too.

    Everyone is not wrong just you.
     
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    Nonsense. Companies are WILLINGLY selling cancer causing agents and denying they cause cancer. They then publish fake scientific studies to prove their lies; look at big tobacco.

    For Christ sakes you can be both pro market and hold these entities to task. Why the **** are you such an extremist?
     
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    ...and obviously would call it a dog even if everyone on earth told you it was an alligator.


    Again, what you call Monsanto is meaningless...
     
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    Stop with your extremist dramatic BS!

    Companies are NOT willingly selling cancer causing agents.

    There's warning labels on all products.
     
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    EPA says herbicide in Roundup weed killer doesn't cause cancer, contradicting California regulators

    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-pesticide-cancer-20171218-story.html
     
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    You aret everybody on earth.


    There is no Monsanto
     
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    Third time on people living forever. Needle stuck?
     
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    Warning labels are worthless. Why is it that companies don't have to prove their products safety before selling it?

    I don't care for "personal responsibility" arguments here because none of you want to see companies have any responsibility to the public they sell to.
     
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    "Bayer will remain the company name," Bayer said in a statement. "Monsanto will no longer be a company name. The acquired products will retain their brand names and become part of the Bayer portfolio."

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/06/04/monsanto-bayer-name/668418002/

    afaik Bayer acquired the liabilities as well as the assets of gonzo Monsanto, so Bayer will pay out any monies that get paid out.
     
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    This happened in the lead industry as well. Cosmos on Netflix has a good episode about how it was covered up and lied to the public using payed off doctors.
     
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