A Roundup on Big Agri Weedicides By Mrs Vera West
I recall a guy who once worked doing weedicide spraying in new south wales telling me that all Big Agri sprays were so safe, that when confronted by people who thought it could cause cancer, he would drink a small amount. He also said that when he was not spraying he felt ill, but when got back out in the fields doing it, felt like a million bucks. I don’t know if he was telling the truth or is now dead. Another fellow worked doing spraying for a council and used all of these sorts of chemicals for decades. On his death bed, with cancer, he told me to spread the word about Big Agri pesticides. Now the US courts are speaking, on one of them, which is a start.
"California’s highest court rejected on Wednesday a challenge by Monsanto Co. to $86.2 million in damages to a couple who developed cancer after spraying the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed-killer in their yards for three decades, Associated Press reported.
The state Supreme Court’s denial of review upholds an appeals court’s ruling in favor of Alva and Alberta Pilliod.
The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco found in a 2-1 ruling in August that Monsanto was at fault for knowingly marketing a product whose active ingredient, glyphosate, could be dangerous.
Monsanto’s parent company, Bayer, said it disagreed with the high court’s decision.
“We continue to stand strongly behind the safety of Roundup, a position supported by assessments of expert regulators worldwide as well as the overwhelming weight of four decades of extensive science,” the company said in a statement.
Brent Wisner, a lawyer for the Pilliods, told the San Francisco Chronicle the verdict “was based on solid science and unanimous law” and the company should halt its “frivolous appeals.”
Bayer announced over the summer that it would stop selling the current version of Roundup for home and garden use in U.S. stores, starting in 2023.
Bayer said it would replace the herbicide’s main ingredient, glyphosate, with an unspecified active ingredient, subject to federal and state approval, while continuing to sell Roundup with glyphosate for farm use.
Bayer has agreed to pay $10 billion to settle thousands of lawsuits that have already been filed in state and federal courts and has sought, unsuccessfully so far, to resolve future lawsuits with a settlement fund of up to $2 billion, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.”
I wonder if in the future we will see the same with the present generation of Covid vaxxes?
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