© REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/File PhotoThe Bayer AG logo sits on display at the headquarters in La Garenne-Colombes, near Paris, France, May 13, 2019.
The verdict includes $7 million in compensatory damages and $325 million in punitive damages awarded to plaintiff Mike Dennis, who was diagnosed at age 51 with a form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a spokesperson for the company.
The punitive damage award is almost certain to be reduced sharply, as the U.S. Supreme Court has found that punitive damages should be less than 10 times the compensatory damages in virtually all cases.
The jury sided with Bayer on two of four legal claims in the case, the spokesperson said, finding that while the company had failed to warn of Roundup's risks, it had not been negligent and the product was not defectively designed.
The company said in a statement that it has "strong arguments on appeal to get this unfounded verdict overturned and the unconstitutionally excessive damage award eliminated or reduced, given that there were significant and reversible legal and evidentiary errors made during this trial."
A lawyer for Dennis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This marks the third trial loss for Bayer this month, after being hit by a $175 million verdict and a $1.25 million verdict in two separate Roundup trials. Before that, it had won nine consecutive trials over similar claims.
Roundup-related lawsuits have dogged Bayer since it acquired the brand as part of its $63 billion purchase of Monsanto in 2018. The company settled most Roundup claims against it in 2020 for up to $10.9 billion, but still faces close to 40,000 Roundup-related cases.
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You can produce some sulphuric acid in the stomach by ingesting garlic and onions leeks etc...
I was under the assumption that the entire non-organic wheat crop grown in the USA is harvested by killing the crop early with aerial spraying of Roundup/glyphosphate so that it'll die and dry out early.
So is this really a clown world where we have people dying of cancer, now settled suits, from Roundup and they're still spraying metric shit tons of this stuff right onto our cereal?
And nobody screams halt to General Mills making little kids eat the stuff???
Or should we go around and round up the black folks again and put them back in the fields so it's all natural,cheap and organic?
And nobody is being forced to eat the damn cereals. People choose to buy it. It's not a requirement for survival and health.
Who was talking about vehicles, what on earth has that got to do with glyphosate crop spraying?
They do it to prevent blight and rot.
There are various methods, some safer than others.
What is organic? To me it means they clear cut old growth, never before sprayed forests to grow food as swithing from chem farming to organic, well theres 30-50 yrs of chems already in the soil. Best to grow your own, thereby truly ensuring organic growth.
The exfarmer I spoke to regarding large scale organic farmer, doesn't know how they could possibly do it without using any kind of chemical, they'd have to, less bugs and disease take over.
Organic is a pure marketing term, used to charge more for food. Like the $5 t-shirt made next to the person sewing the $200 t-shirt in the same factory in China, Bangladesh, etc. They both cost $2 to make.
That's how I see it. Organic, hehehe.
And for the record, my "2nd daughter," my child's best friend, developed non-hodgkins at age 18! Because she lives surrounded by roundup sprayed corn. This is a very very serious contaminate which is now even measurable in RAIN WATER and in whales. It is disgusting that such chemicals are even authorized for use. But "they" want us all dead, and roundup is a good way to destroy our guts and immune system.
Your 2nd daughter got what she got by imbalance in her inner life that is dictated by inner family. (Same for her buddy).
Your post is poison.
DT is poison.
Cereal is poison.
Poison is poison.
I say, let's get real, be real, let the contaminants just die off naturally. Happens in the real world for all species but us estupidos.
Life is simple.
Growing up is part of the process. WE don't need to take forever🤷🏻♀️
Where there's a will, there's a way.
You're not paying attention.
A balanced PH cannot create disease. Only the mind breaks the body (and organic wear n tear). The mind is software aka programming. Fix the bugs, install new programming or carry around infestation. Nature balances imbalance.
Get it?
Sins of the fathers n mothers; 7 generations.
I do my part.
To LINDAMAY and DT as well, cancer is caused by all the ways in which they hack our biophotonic energy, steal our neurons (fluid neuromorphic chipsets are what gives AI sentience, it is OUR human neurons), and just plain irradiate us with pervasive and ubiquitous computing etc. PLUS all the contaminates in air, food, water (roundup being a GREAT human countermeasure). Yet there is also a spiritual element as Lindamay describes (but I really really don't like our society's current "blame the victim" mentality). Yes, familial issues exist which FURTHER compromise our immune system (50% of which has been made commercially available, an industrial system codified by INTERNATIONAL law). And learning to know yourself and how to RECLAIM some of your life force is important as well. Takes a lot of time and effort. And also innate intelligence (after 70+ vaccines as children, innate intelligence has already been degraded). But when it affects little children who cannot be expected to possess this level of self-awareness, it should make us all very ANGRY. They even refer (at various ages) to initial development of self-awareness ... little kids have to first figure out me/you before they can learn more about the "me" aspect. And I don't know about you,but working on myself has been a lifelong process, and at 18 ... still settling into being hormonally an adult in so confusing and violent society, they just can't be expected to rebalance their inner life. Especially when still living in a toxic family household.
And children have parents til 13 for a reason.
What makes me angry is seeing children wear glasses.
People need to meditate on that.
AND 2. Also ... now this is interesting you say this about glasses. I am personally correcting my vision now. Starting from 20/975 (diapter of -9.75), DOWN by 50% now! Using Amazonian plant medicine. Literally I can now run sans eyeglasses without falling at -5 diapter (most people who are nearsighted, for reference, have like 20/80 or 20/100 at worst (-1 diapter). But for me, I was almost blinded by excess oxygen in the incubators (in early 60s they were still experimenting), and when I got glasses at age 6, I was sobbing for DAYS because I didn't know trees had individual leaves, or that colors were so intense. Now, I disagree strongly with MAKING kids with mild nearsightedness wear glasses (if the prescription brings you to 20/20, the eyes of kids get lazy, and myopia can worsen), but you really can't see the blackboard at school (I mean the BOARD, forget about what is WRITTEN on it) when you are almost 5 times over legal blindness (20/200). My daughter, just 20/60, as a young adult now wears glasses just for driving (safety), but I literally never reminded her to wear them as a kid, and the prescription never worsened. But for those of us with severe vision problems, glasses are needed (or you have to go to a school for the blind and learn to walk with a cane).
In a round of testing, EWG found glyphosate in all 28 samples of products made with conventionally grown oats.
A glyphosate free cereal like Seven Days cereal is sold in 7-7.5 oz bags for about $7.50 after tax. A normal box of cereal is between 20-22oz which means it's over $20.00 to buy the same amount.
Unfortunately people use it without questioning its effect on life nor do they question its degradation. People believe that Bayer is "safe and effective" as they spray those weeds.
Either way, it's best not to bathe and dry your food with herbicides. We can all probably agree on that (except our resident troll)....
Nothing 'sticks' nor 'penetrates' unless there is some unseen or seen welcome sign. Attract-ion is an exchange, a mirror in resonance or frequency. All is for EVOLVEuting.
We incarnate willingly with an intended, therefore chosen aka welcomed, specific journey. Kids are the pastlife adults, or short-lived kids' journeys.
Victimhood is an illusion as is 'everything' out there.
The victorious are the responsible ones, those who RECEIVE their responsibilities with wisdom or grace, and ACT on them which is nothing but the UNconDICTioned. LOVE is unconditional no excuses, no justifications. As a newborn, open to be held.
Yin/Yang
Con.Science.ness IN action aka The Big Bang
Shadow is the dark matter, black hole.