Roundup Maker to Pay $10 Billion to Settle Cancer Suits
Source: New York Times
Bayer, the world’s largest seed and pesticide maker, has agreed to pay more than $10 billion to settle tens of thousands of claims in the United States that its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, the company said Wednesday.
The figure includes $1.25 billion to deal with potential future claims from people who used Roundup and may develop the form of cancer known as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the years to come. “It’s rare that we see a consensual settlement with that many zeros on it,” said Nora Freeman Engstrom, a professor at Stanford University Law School.
Bayer, a German company, inherited the legal morass when it bought Roundup’s manufacturer, Monsanto, for $63 billion in June 2018. It has repeatedly maintained that Roundup is safe. The settlement, which covers an estimated 95,000 cases, was extraordinarily complex because it includes separate agreements with 25 lead law firms whose clients will receive varying amounts.
Most of the lawsuits filed early on were brought by homeowners and groundskeepers, although they account for only a tiny portion of Roundup’s sales. Farmers are the biggest customers, and many agricultural associations contend glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundup, is safe and effective. Bayer still faces at least 25,000 claims from plaintiffs who have not agreed to be part of the settlement.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/business/roundup-settlement-lawsuits.html
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many in the agricultural industry swear by it. 
From the OP -
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They are one of the reasons we don't see wood thrushes, box turtles, monarchs, native pollinators,
the American Kestrel, fire flies (light pollution hurts 'em too), and on and on.
This is kudzu killing a forest what are you gonna do about it? Chant? A power "drumming circle?" hope
for powerful good vibes from nature?
However they were shitting bricks when they saw all the liability lawsuits coming their way. So they went out of business and sold the rights to Bayer less than a year ago. Is Bayer manufacturing this pox on humanity? I don't believe they are, they're just stuck with Monsanto's losses.
