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Monsanto loses Roundup lawsuit
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I thought this was supposed to be a discussion about what a benevolent company Monsanto was. From Wikipedia ...
"As defendant
The Public Patent Foundation has unsuccessfully attempted to invalidate several Monsanto patents. In 2006, the foundation filed for ex parte reexamination of four patents, which the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) granted.[40] However, by 2008 the PTO had confirmed the validity of all four patents, with minor amendments to two patents,[41] and allowing new patent claims to issue for the other two patents.[42] In 2011 the Public Patent Foundation filed claims in the Southern District of New York challenging the validity of 23 of Monsanto's patents on genetically modified seed, on behalf of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and 82 other farming associations.[43] The group contended that they were being forced to sue preemptively to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should their fields ever become contaminated by Monsanto's genetically modified seed.[44] Monsanto moved for dismissal, citing a public pledge it made not to "exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seed or traits are present in farmer's fields as a result of inadvertent means."[15][45] District Court Judge Naomi Buchwald dismissed the lawsuit in 2012, and criticized the plaintiffs in her order for a "transparent effort to create a controversy where none exists."[45][46] In June 2013, the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court decision.[16][47] The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in January 2014.[48]
In February 2012, two NGOs, Navdanya and No Patent on Seeds, filed documents opposing an EU patent awarded to Monsanto covering virus resistant traits of melons.[49] They were joined by Bayer Cropscience.[50] Monsanto had acquired DeRuiter, a seed company, in 2008, which originally filed the patent application.[51] The activists' claim it was not an invention of Monsanto but rather bio-piracy, because the virus-resistant plants originated in India and were registered in international seed banks; they further claimed that conventional breeding methods were used to transfer the virus resistance genes from an Indian melon to other melons and that European law prohibits patents on conventional breeding.[52] The European Patent Office created a page on its website to explain the case.[50]
Chemical pollution
Monsanto presently operates as an agricultural company, but it was founded in 1901 as a chemical company. In 1997 Monsanto split the chemical sector of its business into an independent company, Solutia Inc.[53] In 2008 Monsanto agreed �o assume financial responsibility for all litigation relating to property damage, personal injury, products liability or premises liability or other damages related to asbestos, PCB, dioxin, benzene, vinyl chloride and other chemicals manufactured before the Solutia Spin-off.�54][55]
Agent Orange
In 1980, the first US Agent Orange class-action lawsuit was filed for the injuries military personnel in Vietnam suffered through exposure to dioxins in the defoliant.[56] The chemical companies involved denied that there was a link between Agent Orange and the veterans' medical problems. On May 7, 1984, seven chemical companies settled the class-action suit out of court just hours before jury selection was to begin, offering $180 million as compensation if the veterans dropped all claims against them.[57] Slightly over 45% of the sum was ordered to be paid by Monsanto alone.[58]
In 2004, Monsanto, along with Dow and other chemical companies, were sued in a US court by a group of Vietnamese for the effects of its Agent Orange defoliant, used by the US military in the Vietnam War.[59][60] The case was dismissed, and plaintiffs appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which also denied the appeal.
After seven years of litigation, in 2013 Monsanto reached a settlement with the town of Nitro, West Virginia, agreeing to pay $93 million for compensatory damages, cleanup, and ongoing monitoring of dioxin contamination in the area around a plant where Agent Orange was made.[61]
Dioxin
In a case that ran from February 1984 through October 1987, Monsanto was the defendant in the longest civil jury trial in U.S. history, Kemner v. Monsanto. The case involved a group of plaintiffs who claimed to have been poisoned by dioxin in 1979 when a train derailed in Sturgeon, Missouri. Tank cars on the train carried a chemical used to make wood preservatives and "small quantities of a dioxin called 2, 3, 7, 8, TCDD... formed as a part of the manufacturing process."[62] The initial outcome was mixed. "The jurors, after deliberating more than two months, agreed with Monsanto that the plaintiffs had suffered no physical harm from exposure to dioxin. But they accepted the plaintiffs' argument that Monsanto had failed to alter its manufacturing process to eliminate dioxin as a byproduct and that it had failed to warn the public about dioxin's harmfulness. Most of the plaintiffs were awarded only one dollar each for actual losses, but they were awarded $16.2 million in punitive damages."[63] Monsanto appealed the judgments and won on all counts.[62]
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
In the early 1990s, Monsanto faced several lawsuits over harm caused by PCBs from workers at companies such as Westinghouse that bought PCBs from Monsanto and used them to build electrical equipment.[64] Monsanto and its customers, such as Westinghouse and GE, also faced litigation from third parties, such as workers at scrap yards that bought used electrical equipment and broke them down to reclaim valuable metals.[65][66] Monsanto settled some of these cases and won the others, on the grounds that it had clearly told its customers that PCBs were dangerous chemicals and that protective procedures needed to be implemented.[citation needed]
In 2003, Monsanto and Solutia Inc., a Monsanto corporate spin-off, reached a $700 million settlement with the residents of West Anniston, Alabama who had been affected by the manufacturing and dumping of PCBs.[67][68] In a trial lasting six weeks, the jury found that "Monsanto had engaged in outrageous behavior, and held the corporations and its corporate successors liable on all six counts it considered - including negligence, nuisance, wantonness and suppression of the truth."[69]
In 2014, the Los Angeles Superior Court found that Monsanto was not liable for cancers claimed to be from PCBs permeating the food supply of three plaintiffs who had developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. After a four-week trial, the jury found that Monsantoç—´ production and sale of PCBs between 1935 and 1977 were not substantial causes of the cancer.[70]
In 2015, the cities of Spokane, San Diego, and San Jose initiated lawsuits against Monsanto to recover cleanup costs for PCB contaminated sites, alleging that Monsanto continued to sell PCBs without adequate warnings after they knew of their toxicity. Monsanto issued a media statement concerning the San Diego case, claiming that improper use or disposal by third-parties, of a lawfully sold product, was not the company's responsibility.[71][72][73][74]
In July 2015, a St Louis county court in Missouri found that Monsanto, Solutia, Pharmacia and Pfizer were not liable for a series of deaths and injuries caused by PCBs manufactured by Monsanto Chemical Company until 1977. The trial took nearly a month and the jury took a day of deliberations to return a verdict against the plaintiffs from throughout the USA.[75][76] Similar cases are ongoing. "The evidence simply doesn稚 support the assertion that the historic use of PCB products was the cause of the plaintiffs harms. We are confident that the jury will conclude, as two other juries have found in similar cases, that the former Monsanto Company is not responsible for the alleged injuries, a Monsanto statement said.[77]
In May 2016, A Missouri state jury ordered Monsanto to pay $46.5 million in a case where 3 plaintiffs claimed PCB exposure caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[78][79]
In December 2016, the state of Washington filed suit in King County. The state sought damages and clean up costs related to PCBs.[80][81] In March 2018 Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine also filed a lawsuit against Monsanto over health issues posed by PCBs.[82]
Alachlor
Transferring Monsanto's Lasso herbicide
Alachlor is the second most widely used herbicide in the United States;[83] its use as a herbicide has been banned in the European Union.[84]
In 2012, a French court found Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a farmer who had used the herbicide Lasso, a trade name for alachlor. This is the first such case to be heard in France and is considered "a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides."[85] In 2015 a French appeals court upheld the ruling and ordered the company to "fully compensate" the grower.[86]
RoundUp
Further information: Roundup (herbicide) ｧ Legal
Over 4,000 cancer patients are suing Monsanto in numerous state courts for failure to warn the public about the risk of cancer associated with glyphosate-based weedkiller RoundUp. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer published a report[87] linking glyphosate (the active ingredient in RoundUp) to cancer in humans. Monsanto denies that RoundUp is carcinogenic.[88][89]
There is limited evidence that human cancer risk might increase as a result of occupational exposure to large amounts of glyphosate, such as agricultural work, but no good evidence of such a risk from home use, such as in domestic gardening.[90] The consensus among national pesticide regulatory agencies and scientific organizations, including the European Commission, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is that labeled uses of glyphosate have demonstrated no evidence of human carcinogenicity.[citation needed][91][92] The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the WHO, has classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic in humans.[citation needed]
In 2016, Monsanto filed a lawsuit objecting to glyphosate being added to California's list of carcinogens.[93] In January 2017, the Fresno County Superior Court rejected the case. The state of California filed a motion to dismiss the case.[94] Monsanto appealed on March 22.[95]
In 2016, the Southern District of California ruled that Emanuel Giglio's cancer was not Monsanto's fault and that "FIFRA preempted Giglio's claim of a failure to warn the EPA about the dangers of glyphosate".[96]
In the In re: RoundUp Products Liability multidistrict litigation (MDL) a Daubert hearing was held in March 2018 on general causation as to non-Hodgkinç—´ lymphoma.[97] This case consolidated over 300 federal lawsuits that allege Monsanto did not adequately warn consumers about the risks of using RoundUp. These lawsuits were filed after the International Agency for Research on Cancer released an assessment in 2015 that glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, was "probably carcinogenic" to humans. Monsanto argued that plaintiff's claims were based on "junk science" and sought a summary judgment dismissing the cases. [98] On June 7, 2018, Monsanto was acquired by the German company Bayer. In July 2018, the federal court judge overseeing the cases ruled that the plaintiffs could proceed with their lawsuits, finding that a reasonable jury could conclude that glyphosate can cause cancer in humans. Monsanto's motion for summary judgment was denied. [99]
In March 2017, 40 plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the Alameda County Superior Court, a branch of the California Superior Court, against Monsanto alleging damages related to certain forms of cancer caused by Monsanto's Roundup product.[100] On August 10, 2018, Dewayne Johnson won the first jury case against Monsanto based on a causal link between Roundup and Johnson's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The jury awarded Johnson $289 million in actual and punitive damages against Monsanto, and found that Monsanto acted maliciously by failing to warn consumers of cancer risks posed by the herbicide.[101] Monsanto plans to appeal the verdict based on its claim that the judge improperly admitted scientific evidence presented on behalf of Johnson. [102][103]
Right to privacy
In May 2019, Le Monde and France 2 announced that they had a copy of the "Monsanto France database" that the PR firm Fleishman-Hillard compiled in 2016, the year after the IARC classification of glyphosate. These tables listed private data concerning journalists, scientists and politicians who were evaluated on a scale of 1-5 concerning their political opinions on, for example, "agriculture, pesticides, GMOs, and health... ."[104] Le Monde & St駱hane Foucart filed a legal complaint in the High Court of Paris on 26 April based in part upon the right to privacy.[105] Le Parisien announced it would file a complaint with the CNIL[106] and Radio France is preparing legal action, as are a Eurodeputy and the NGO Foodwatch. Ecological Transition Minister Fran輟is de Rugy said he was not 'surprised' that corporations today appear to finance methods more reminiscent of foreign intelligence agencies.[107]
Dicamba
Arkansas and Missouri banned the sale and use of the pesticide dicamba in July 2017 in response to complaints of crop damage due to drift.[108] In response, Monsanto, a producer of dicamba, sued the state of Arkansas to stop the ban; this lawsuit was dismissed in February 2018.[109]
Other legal actions
In 2005, the US DOJ filed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement[110] in which Monsanto admitted to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (15 U.S.C. ｧ 78dd-1) and making false entries into its books and records (15 U.S.C ｧ 78m(b)(2) & (5)). Monsanto also agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine. The case involved bribes paid to an Indonesian official.[111] Monsanto admitted a senior manager at Monsanto directed an Indonesian consulting firm to give a $50,000 bribe to a high-level official in Indonesia's environment ministry in 2002 related to the agency's assessment on its genetically modified cotton. Monsanto told the company to disguise an invoice for the bribe as "consulting fees". Monsanto also has admitted to paying bribes to a number of other high-ranking Indonesian officials between 1997 and 2002. On March 5, 2008, the deferred prosecution agreement against Monsanto was dismissed with prejudice (unopposed by the Department of Justice) by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, thereby indicating that Monsanto had complied fully with the terms of the agreement.
In 2014, Monsanto reached a settlement with soft wheat farmers over the 2013 discovery of experimental glyphosate-resistant wheat in a field in Oregon which had led to South Korea and Japan temporarily stopping some US wheat importation. The settlement included the establishment of a $2.125 million fund for economically affected soft-wheat farmers.[112]"
"As defendant
The Public Patent Foundation has unsuccessfully attempted to invalidate several Monsanto patents. In 2006, the foundation filed for ex parte reexamination of four patents, which the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) granted.[40] However, by 2008 the PTO had confirmed the validity of all four patents, with minor amendments to two patents,[41] and allowing new patent claims to issue for the other two patents.[42] In 2011 the Public Patent Foundation filed claims in the Southern District of New York challenging the validity of 23 of Monsanto's patents on genetically modified seed, on behalf of the Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association and 82 other farming associations.[43] The group contended that they were being forced to sue preemptively to protect themselves from being accused of patent infringement should their fields ever become contaminated by Monsanto's genetically modified seed.[44] Monsanto moved for dismissal, citing a public pledge it made not to "exercise its patent rights where trace amounts of our patented seed or traits are present in farmer's fields as a result of inadvertent means."[15][45] District Court Judge Naomi Buchwald dismissed the lawsuit in 2012, and criticized the plaintiffs in her order for a "transparent effort to create a controversy where none exists."[45][46] In June 2013, the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court decision.[16][47] The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal in January 2014.[48]
In February 2012, two NGOs, Navdanya and No Patent on Seeds, filed documents opposing an EU patent awarded to Monsanto covering virus resistant traits of melons.[49] They were joined by Bayer Cropscience.[50] Monsanto had acquired DeRuiter, a seed company, in 2008, which originally filed the patent application.[51] The activists' claim it was not an invention of Monsanto but rather bio-piracy, because the virus-resistant plants originated in India and were registered in international seed banks; they further claimed that conventional breeding methods were used to transfer the virus resistance genes from an Indian melon to other melons and that European law prohibits patents on conventional breeding.[52] The European Patent Office created a page on its website to explain the case.[50]
Chemical pollution
Monsanto presently operates as an agricultural company, but it was founded in 1901 as a chemical company. In 1997 Monsanto split the chemical sector of its business into an independent company, Solutia Inc.[53] In 2008 Monsanto agreed �o assume financial responsibility for all litigation relating to property damage, personal injury, products liability or premises liability or other damages related to asbestos, PCB, dioxin, benzene, vinyl chloride and other chemicals manufactured before the Solutia Spin-off.�54][55]
Agent Orange
In 1980, the first US Agent Orange class-action lawsuit was filed for the injuries military personnel in Vietnam suffered through exposure to dioxins in the defoliant.[56] The chemical companies involved denied that there was a link between Agent Orange and the veterans' medical problems. On May 7, 1984, seven chemical companies settled the class-action suit out of court just hours before jury selection was to begin, offering $180 million as compensation if the veterans dropped all claims against them.[57] Slightly over 45% of the sum was ordered to be paid by Monsanto alone.[58]
In 2004, Monsanto, along with Dow and other chemical companies, were sued in a US court by a group of Vietnamese for the effects of its Agent Orange defoliant, used by the US military in the Vietnam War.[59][60] The case was dismissed, and plaintiffs appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, which also denied the appeal.
After seven years of litigation, in 2013 Monsanto reached a settlement with the town of Nitro, West Virginia, agreeing to pay $93 million for compensatory damages, cleanup, and ongoing monitoring of dioxin contamination in the area around a plant where Agent Orange was made.[61]
Dioxin
In a case that ran from February 1984 through October 1987, Monsanto was the defendant in the longest civil jury trial in U.S. history, Kemner v. Monsanto. The case involved a group of plaintiffs who claimed to have been poisoned by dioxin in 1979 when a train derailed in Sturgeon, Missouri. Tank cars on the train carried a chemical used to make wood preservatives and "small quantities of a dioxin called 2, 3, 7, 8, TCDD... formed as a part of the manufacturing process."[62] The initial outcome was mixed. "The jurors, after deliberating more than two months, agreed with Monsanto that the plaintiffs had suffered no physical harm from exposure to dioxin. But they accepted the plaintiffs' argument that Monsanto had failed to alter its manufacturing process to eliminate dioxin as a byproduct and that it had failed to warn the public about dioxin's harmfulness. Most of the plaintiffs were awarded only one dollar each for actual losses, but they were awarded $16.2 million in punitive damages."[63] Monsanto appealed the judgments and won on all counts.[62]
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
In the early 1990s, Monsanto faced several lawsuits over harm caused by PCBs from workers at companies such as Westinghouse that bought PCBs from Monsanto and used them to build electrical equipment.[64] Monsanto and its customers, such as Westinghouse and GE, also faced litigation from third parties, such as workers at scrap yards that bought used electrical equipment and broke them down to reclaim valuable metals.[65][66] Monsanto settled some of these cases and won the others, on the grounds that it had clearly told its customers that PCBs were dangerous chemicals and that protective procedures needed to be implemented.[citation needed]
In 2003, Monsanto and Solutia Inc., a Monsanto corporate spin-off, reached a $700 million settlement with the residents of West Anniston, Alabama who had been affected by the manufacturing and dumping of PCBs.[67][68] In a trial lasting six weeks, the jury found that "Monsanto had engaged in outrageous behavior, and held the corporations and its corporate successors liable on all six counts it considered - including negligence, nuisance, wantonness and suppression of the truth."[69]
In 2014, the Los Angeles Superior Court found that Monsanto was not liable for cancers claimed to be from PCBs permeating the food supply of three plaintiffs who had developed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. After a four-week trial, the jury found that Monsantoç—´ production and sale of PCBs between 1935 and 1977 were not substantial causes of the cancer.[70]
In 2015, the cities of Spokane, San Diego, and San Jose initiated lawsuits against Monsanto to recover cleanup costs for PCB contaminated sites, alleging that Monsanto continued to sell PCBs without adequate warnings after they knew of their toxicity. Monsanto issued a media statement concerning the San Diego case, claiming that improper use or disposal by third-parties, of a lawfully sold product, was not the company's responsibility.[71][72][73][74]
In July 2015, a St Louis county court in Missouri found that Monsanto, Solutia, Pharmacia and Pfizer were not liable for a series of deaths and injuries caused by PCBs manufactured by Monsanto Chemical Company until 1977. The trial took nearly a month and the jury took a day of deliberations to return a verdict against the plaintiffs from throughout the USA.[75][76] Similar cases are ongoing. "The evidence simply doesn稚 support the assertion that the historic use of PCB products was the cause of the plaintiffs harms. We are confident that the jury will conclude, as two other juries have found in similar cases, that the former Monsanto Company is not responsible for the alleged injuries, a Monsanto statement said.[77]
In May 2016, A Missouri state jury ordered Monsanto to pay $46.5 million in a case where 3 plaintiffs claimed PCB exposure caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[78][79]
In December 2016, the state of Washington filed suit in King County. The state sought damages and clean up costs related to PCBs.[80][81] In March 2018 Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine also filed a lawsuit against Monsanto over health issues posed by PCBs.[82]
Alachlor
Transferring Monsanto's Lasso herbicide
Alachlor is the second most widely used herbicide in the United States;[83] its use as a herbicide has been banned in the European Union.[84]
In 2012, a French court found Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a farmer who had used the herbicide Lasso, a trade name for alachlor. This is the first such case to be heard in France and is considered "a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides."[85] In 2015 a French appeals court upheld the ruling and ordered the company to "fully compensate" the grower.[86]
RoundUp
Further information: Roundup (herbicide) ｧ Legal
Over 4,000 cancer patients are suing Monsanto in numerous state courts for failure to warn the public about the risk of cancer associated with glyphosate-based weedkiller RoundUp. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer published a report[87] linking glyphosate (the active ingredient in RoundUp) to cancer in humans. Monsanto denies that RoundUp is carcinogenic.[88][89]
There is limited evidence that human cancer risk might increase as a result of occupational exposure to large amounts of glyphosate, such as agricultural work, but no good evidence of such a risk from home use, such as in domestic gardening.[90] The consensus among national pesticide regulatory agencies and scientific organizations, including the European Commission, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is that labeled uses of glyphosate have demonstrated no evidence of human carcinogenicity.[citation needed][91][92] The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the WHO, has classified glyphosate as probably carcinogenic in humans.[citation needed]
In 2016, Monsanto filed a lawsuit objecting to glyphosate being added to California's list of carcinogens.[93] In January 2017, the Fresno County Superior Court rejected the case. The state of California filed a motion to dismiss the case.[94] Monsanto appealed on March 22.[95]
In 2016, the Southern District of California ruled that Emanuel Giglio's cancer was not Monsanto's fault and that "FIFRA preempted Giglio's claim of a failure to warn the EPA about the dangers of glyphosate".[96]
In the In re: RoundUp Products Liability multidistrict litigation (MDL) a Daubert hearing was held in March 2018 on general causation as to non-Hodgkinç—´ lymphoma.[97] This case consolidated over 300 federal lawsuits that allege Monsanto did not adequately warn consumers about the risks of using RoundUp. These lawsuits were filed after the International Agency for Research on Cancer released an assessment in 2015 that glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, was "probably carcinogenic" to humans. Monsanto argued that plaintiff's claims were based on "junk science" and sought a summary judgment dismissing the cases. [98] On June 7, 2018, Monsanto was acquired by the German company Bayer. In July 2018, the federal court judge overseeing the cases ruled that the plaintiffs could proceed with their lawsuits, finding that a reasonable jury could conclude that glyphosate can cause cancer in humans. Monsanto's motion for summary judgment was denied. [99]
In March 2017, 40 plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the Alameda County Superior Court, a branch of the California Superior Court, against Monsanto alleging damages related to certain forms of cancer caused by Monsanto's Roundup product.[100] On August 10, 2018, Dewayne Johnson won the first jury case against Monsanto based on a causal link between Roundup and Johnson's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The jury awarded Johnson $289 million in actual and punitive damages against Monsanto, and found that Monsanto acted maliciously by failing to warn consumers of cancer risks posed by the herbicide.[101] Monsanto plans to appeal the verdict based on its claim that the judge improperly admitted scientific evidence presented on behalf of Johnson. [102][103]
Right to privacy
In May 2019, Le Monde and France 2 announced that they had a copy of the "Monsanto France database" that the PR firm Fleishman-Hillard compiled in 2016, the year after the IARC classification of glyphosate. These tables listed private data concerning journalists, scientists and politicians who were evaluated on a scale of 1-5 concerning their political opinions on, for example, "agriculture, pesticides, GMOs, and health... ."[104] Le Monde & St駱hane Foucart filed a legal complaint in the High Court of Paris on 26 April based in part upon the right to privacy.[105] Le Parisien announced it would file a complaint with the CNIL[106] and Radio France is preparing legal action, as are a Eurodeputy and the NGO Foodwatch. Ecological Transition Minister Fran輟is de Rugy said he was not 'surprised' that corporations today appear to finance methods more reminiscent of foreign intelligence agencies.[107]
Dicamba
Arkansas and Missouri banned the sale and use of the pesticide dicamba in July 2017 in response to complaints of crop damage due to drift.[108] In response, Monsanto, a producer of dicamba, sued the state of Arkansas to stop the ban; this lawsuit was dismissed in February 2018.[109]
Other legal actions
In 2005, the US DOJ filed a Deferred Prosecution Agreement[110] in which Monsanto admitted to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (15 U.S.C. ｧ 78dd-1) and making false entries into its books and records (15 U.S.C ｧ 78m(b)(2) & (5)). Monsanto also agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine. The case involved bribes paid to an Indonesian official.[111] Monsanto admitted a senior manager at Monsanto directed an Indonesian consulting firm to give a $50,000 bribe to a high-level official in Indonesia's environment ministry in 2002 related to the agency's assessment on its genetically modified cotton. Monsanto told the company to disguise an invoice for the bribe as "consulting fees". Monsanto also has admitted to paying bribes to a number of other high-ranking Indonesian officials between 1997 and 2002. On March 5, 2008, the deferred prosecution agreement against Monsanto was dismissed with prejudice (unopposed by the Department of Justice) by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, thereby indicating that Monsanto had complied fully with the terms of the agreement.
In 2014, Monsanto reached a settlement with soft wheat farmers over the 2013 discovery of experimental glyphosate-resistant wheat in a field in Oregon which had led to South Korea and Japan temporarily stopping some US wheat importation. The settlement included the establishment of a $2.125 million fund for economically affected soft-wheat farmers.[112]"
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rekees4300
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Bayer to pay up to $10.9 billion to settle Roundup lawsuits
Bayer to pay up to $1 .9 billion to settle Roundup lawsuits - CBS News
Bayer to pay up to $1 .9 billion to settle Roundup lawsuits - CBS News
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I wonder what the figure (of settlement costs down the road) was that the folks doing the DD on the acquisition of Monsanto was...??
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I dunno, I still buy it
See an awful lot of advertising on TV too
See an awful lot of advertising on TV too
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I do, also...........likewise, after the Lawyers got their billions in the "Tobacco Settlement".....I still smoke. It's all about Deep Pockets, and common sense/freedom of choice. As in ALL things; FOLLOW THE MONEY.
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You should figure out what combination of chemicals is giving you a long life and bottle it! :laughing:
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Well; let's see.....
I chewed window sills (lead paint) as a kid, rode bicycles, go-karts, dirt bikes, and countless tractors and mowers, NONE of which had safety stickers or warnings, or interlocks, etc.
Drove muscle cars and street-raced with no seatbelt or helmet......basically, all the fun things kids USED to do, without Lawyer/Gubmint interference and FEES....
Smoked since I entered the Military in 1964, and have smoked ever since.........the ONLY thing that's changed is that the prices have sky-rocketed due to the Tobacco Settlement. EVERY Settlement of ALL lack-of-common-sense Litigation Lotto is for Consumers to pay more, and suffer inconvienience, so the LAWYERS can get rich.
I'm 74 right now,
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Hokey lawyers at work. Almost all the blood thinners have had actions against them, too, and have lost. Doesn't mean they're not safe. Just sorry lawyers sucking blood.
Probably one of the safest herbicides out there. Excesses get bound up by clay soil. Won't escape into the environment.
Ralph
Probably one of the safest herbicides out there. Excesses get bound up by clay soil. Won't escape into the environment.
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Glyphosate and Roundup Disrupt the Gut Microbiome by Inhibiting the Shikimate Pathway - GMO Science
I had always wondered why Monsanto continued to lose in court based on scientific research that I had read. This 2020 research paper that I found this morning was what I needed to personally stop using Roundup going forward or even have it around the place.
Three years ago I did not fully understand my health recovery since Oct 2014 is in a large part due to my stopping of eating and drinking foods containing any form of any sweeteners and any form of any grains. Now I understand the health of my microbiome plays a key roll in how long I live and the quality of life until I die.
I had always wondered why Monsanto continued to lose in court based on scientific research that I had read. This 2020 research paper that I found this morning was what I needed to personally stop using Roundup going forward or even have it around the place.
Three years ago I did not fully understand my health recovery since Oct 2014 is in a large part due to my stopping of eating and drinking foods containing any form of any sweeteners and any form of any grains. Now I understand the health of my microbiome plays a key roll in how long I live and the quality of life until I die.
