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    Default Re: Monsanto was Just Fined $289 Million by San Francisco Jury for Failing to Warn of Known Cancer Risk

    My local power company poisons our easement areas every few years, sprays next to the garden, across a stream, and brags about these 'proven safe and effective' products and always citing our (bought and paid for) government agencies as ensuring product safety for this.

    https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used...cts/glyphosate


    Quote •Glyphosate products can be safely used by following label directions. ◦Glyphosate has low toxicity for humans. ◾Protective eye wear is recommended for the few products that may cause eye irritation.
    ◾Entry into agricultural fields is allowed 12-hours after application of these products.

    ◦Glyphosate is no more than slightly toxic to birds and is practically nontoxic to fish, aquatic invertebrates, and honeybees. ◾Certain products contain an ingredient that is toxic to some fish.
    ◾Follow the label directions to protect fish and aquatic environments.


    •Glyphosate and the related acid and salt compounds are currently undergoing registration review, a program that re-evaluates all pesticides on a 15-year cycle.
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    Default Re: Monsanto was Just Fined $289 Million by San Francisco Jury for Failing to Warn of Known Cancer Risk

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    My money is on the case settling post trial for an undisclosed amount.
    What happens if Mr. Johnson dies while his case is still not resolved?

    Would his lawyers likely have the option of continuing to pursue resolution, for the prospect of their own reimbursements and of payments to Mr. Johnson's estate ?
    Multi tangential dynamics to this one. Bayer Stock Tanks. . . . . . allegedly.

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    This article is copyrighted by GreenMedInfo LLC, 2018


    Bayer Stock Crashes After Monsanto Cancer Verdict Upheld By Judge; Analyst Estimates $800 Billion In Future Liability
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    Default Re: Monsanto was Just Fined $289 Million by San Francisco Jury for Failing to Warn of Known Cancer Risk

    ‘Completely safe’: Monsanto owner Bayer hit by new wave of lawsuits over Roundup weed killer

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    German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer disclosed that lawsuits from 9,300 plaintiffs were pending at the end of October. The lawsuits allege that the company’s recently acquired weed-killing product causes cancer.

    Plaintiffs claim that Roundup weed killers, which Bayer acquired in its takeover of US agrochemical firm Monsanto, made them ill and that the company knew or should have known of the risks but failed to warn adequately.

    Bayer rejected all the accusations, claiming there are hundreds of scientific studies and regulatory authorities that show glyphosate, the compound contained in the weed killers, is safe to use.

    Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, which is the most popular weed killer in the US.

    We continue to believe that we have meritorious defenses and intend to defend ourselves vigorously in all of these lawsuits,” said Bayer’s chief executive Werner Baumann.

    He acknowledged, however, that “more lawsuits are to be expected.” There were 8,700 lawsuits against the company as of the end of August.

    According to Baumann, “glyphosate is an indispensable chemical for modern agriculture that is safe to use, very effective and saves resources.” He explained: “When used appropriately, glyphosate is a completely safe and good product,” repeating “completely safe.”

    The number of lawsuits against Monsanto has been surging lately and, according to expert estimates, could cost its new owner Bayer billions of dollars in damages in the coming years.

    The surge in lawsuits followed the $289-million California court verdict when Monsanto was ordered to pay damages to a man who alleged its glyphosate-based weed killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer.

    The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains glyphosate is not likely to be carcinogenic. It had labeled glyphosate a carcinogen in 1985, but reversed the position in 1991. The World Health Organization’s cancer research agency classified glyphosate as “probably carcinogenic to humans” in 2015. California has listed glyphosate in its Proposition 65 registry of chemicals known to cause cancer.

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    Angry Re: Monsanto was Just Fined $289 Million by San Francisco Jury for Failing to Warn of Known Cancer Risk

    Don`t want to go to much into this. It is to scary for me. GMO is one of the biggest crimes going on. This is how I think. To destroy nature and and natural plants, out of patent und profit reasons, harming nature and all of us...not thinking about the dangers is one of the worst things going on.....

    ..Major Albert Stubblebine, who passed away in 2017, called it - Food as weapon"...it is in the net....

    So now, not the rats are the experimental objects anymore...We are!!



    This are chemical companies...........producing food now. Check the history of them............
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