Monsanto loses Roundup lawsuit

[airbiscuit]

I guess that we just have to trust that Monsanto puts people before profit - just like Big Oil, Big Pharma and Dirty Coal

 

[Oldoak]

I guess that we just have to trust that Monsanto puts people before profit - just like Big Oil, Big Pharma and Dirty Coal

And politicians.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I'm curious what GMO crops have been around for decades.

The first genetically modified food on the market was a yeast produced chymosin that replaced rennet in cheese making in 1990. The Flavr Savr tomato went on the market in 1994. In 1995, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Potato was approved for cultivation, making it the first pesticide producing food crop to be approved in the US, canola with modified oil composition, Bt maize, glyphosate-tolerant soybeans, virus-resistant squash, and another delayed ripening tomato.

If you have eaten a fast food french fry in the last 20 years, you have eaten GMO spuds, fried in GMO vegetable oil, and the cheese on the cheeseburger was made with a GMO rennet replacement. Say what you will about a Big Mac Meal Deal, but the GMO ingredients didn't make it any less healthy than it was to begin with.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Ignorance is not prejudice...the only part of the equation that the "general public" is involved with is as consumers and those serving on juries...The "experts" on both sides testifying (educating an ignorant jury) in these trials have taken a lesson from the AGW experts in cherry-picking and manipulating (or just downright changing) data to suit their purposes...

At last count there were over 11,000 lawsuits against Bayer/monsanto over roundup, many are class action where a single C.A. suit represent many plaintiffs...if nothing else these so called "witch hunts" will at least get more of the "evidence" studied...

The world is full of ambulance chasers. They are running TV ads to find clients. A crook is a crook, even if he has a law degree.

 

[Jstpssng]

The first genetically modified food on the market was a yeast produced chymosin that replaced rennet in cheese making in 1990. The Flavr Savr tomato went on the market in 1994. In 1995, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Potato was approved for cultivation, making it the first pesticide producing food crop to be approved in the US, canola with modified oil composition, Bt maize, glyphosate-tolerant soybeans, virus-resistant squash, and another delayed ripening tomato.

If you have eaten a fast food french fry in the last 20 years, you have eaten GMO spuds, fried in GMO vegetable oil, and the cheese on the cheeseburger was made with a GMO rennet replacement. Say what you will about a Big Mac Meal Deal, but the GMO ingredients didn't make it any less healthy than it was to begin with.

Thank you for answering my question. :thumbsup:

 

[powrguy]

I guess that we just have to trust that Monsanto puts people before profit - just like Big Oil, Big Pharma and Dirty Coal

Ambulance chasers have ruined effective products, and common sense is lost to history.

I grew up with lead paint, air pollution, DDT, etc., and am still here at 73..........still smoking after 54 years of that, and didn't get my share of the Big Tobacco B.S. Lawyer Giveaway settlement, either; did YOU?

Too bad people can't take responsibility for their stupidity, and quit trying to win the Litigation Lottery by spilling hot coffee on your crotch, etc.

 

[RickB]

Embracing stupidity and smoking for over a half century are great companions.

 

[powrguy]

Embracing stupidity and smoking for over a half century are great companions.

Post again when you're 70 years old.....

 

[lilranch2001]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Ambulance chasers have ruined effective products, and common sense is lost to history.

I grew up with lead paint, air pollution, DDT, etc., and am still here at 73..........still smoking after 54 years of that, and didn't get my share of the Big Tobacco B.S. Lawyer Giveaway settlement, either; did YOU?

Too bad people can't take responsibility for their stupidity, and quit trying to win the Litigation Lottery by spilling hot coffee on your crotch, etc.

Eighty plus here; worked as a tech. and Research Chemist for 16 years, painted houses for about four (including lead paint); Environmental Attorney for about twenty five years; been in Uranium mines, chemical plants handling NaClO3, Yellow Cake, Uranium hexafluoride, smoked cigarettes up until 1982 (20 plus years), etc. Like I said before, having a background in Biology, I have always tried to limit exposure of myself and my family, to chemicals of all kinds. Chemists and Engineers are pretty blase' about such exposure; Biologists not so much. I say you are foolish if you don't limit your exposures...for instance, I have lived in this house for forty plus years and have never had it sprayed. When pregnant, my wife didn't smoke, didn't drink, didn't paint as a hobby, or otherwise expose herself to anything unnecessary.

Bottom line, I think it's paid off over the years...and FWIW, my best friend of sixty plus years recently passed away from lung cancer...he smoked cigarettes for nearly sixty years; didn't think they would hurt him.

Oh, BTW, you should read the Court's opinion in the McDonald's hot coffee case...it might adjust some preconceived notions. It was interesting that McDonald's had been cited several times by the Health Department for keeping their coffee unreasonably hot; they thought it kept it fresh. You give near-boiling hot coffee, to an elderly lady, in a paper cup, at the drive in, and are surprised when it collapses and scalds her?