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abqtommy

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1. Roundup is Agent Orange for the common folk. I've used Roundup but was always careful with it
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 09:34 PM
Sep 2020

since I know that the indiscriminate use of Agent Orange by the U.S. military in Vietnam has resulted
in deaths and birth defects in that country that persist to this day. I hope that Monsanto/Bayer is
bankrupted due to this. It's the least they deserve.

For only one more case of corporate malfeasance see:

Bhopal disaster(...)

The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a gas leak incident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is considered among the world's worst industrial disasters.[1][2] Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas. The highly toxic substance made its way into and around the small towns located near the plant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster#Union_Carbide_Corporation

U.S. courts decided Union Carbide was not responsible for this tragedy.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffnt&q=was+union+carbide+ever+held+to+account+for+the+bhopal+tragedy&ia=web

I consider these events to be precedents for tRUMP's decision to abdicate responsibility for his
treatment of the Covoid-19 disaster he's been happy to inflict on the U.S./world population.

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