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"According to Reuters, the number of lawsuits brought against Bayer’s newly acquired Monsanto is approximately 8000 in the US alone."
Cancelling out
Monsanto's name and keeping only that of Bayer, does not mean forgetting the
wrong doings of a company which, according to the
verdict of the Monsanto Tribunal of The Hague, is stained with crimes of ecocide. With Bayer's official takeover of
Monsanto, the giant multinational also inherits its liabilities. On the eve of the start of the
integration process, Monsanto
has been held liable for causing cancer through the use of its glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup and ordered to pay $289 million of damages to the plaintiff Dewayne Lee Johnson in the first landmark case, settled in California in mid August 2018.
The jury also found that Monsanto "acted with malice or oppression."
According to Reuters, the number of lawsuits brought against Bayer's newly acquired Monsanto is approximately 8000 in the US alone. UN experts Ms Hilal Elver, Special Rapporteur on the
right to food and Mr. Dainius Pūras, Special Rapporteur on the
right to physical and mental health,
defined the ruling "a significant recognition of the human rights of victims, and the responsibilities of chemical companies."
Comment: Regardless of the psycho-babble about middle children, many more UK parents would probably love to have larger families children but the UK economy has been tanking for over a decade and so the costs of supporting them has become prohibitively expensive. Although it is also true that a general trend throughout the West has been for smaller families. Meanwhile, in Russia the government is subsidizing larger families in the knowledge that it is actually investing in its economy by doing so: