Posted on 05/13/2019 4:00:58 PM PDT by SMGFan
jury ruled against chemical giant Monsanto on Monday, awarding a California couple $2 billion in damages after determining their cancer was caused by the weedkiller RoundUp.
The decision in Alameda County Superior Court comes on the heels of a recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) statement that said there were no serious public health risks associated with glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp.
But a growing number of juries disagree with the EPA's position. Monday's ruling marks the third case since August in which a jury found that glyphosate caused cancer. More than 13,000 similar lawsuits have been filed against Monsanto or its parent company Bayer.
Many of those suits were spurred by a 2015 World Health Organization analysis that said glyphosate is probably carcinogenic in humans.
Alva and Alberta Pilliod, the plaintiffs in the California case, argued they developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma following decades of using the weedkiller.
Bayer relied heavily on EPA's assessment o
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Okie dokie. No more Roundup in Californias ag areas. I hope yall like weeds with your produce.
How much of it were they drinking?
Well this helps explains the mutations in San Francisco.
Asinine!
argued they developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma following decades of using the weedkiller.
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My son has non Hodgkin lymphoma. He has never been near weedkiller of any sort.
You get cancer because you get cancer.
2 Billion, haha OK then. They will be lucky to see 2 million 15 years from now.
This tells us more about California juries than anything else.
$600-800 million for the attorneys?
The problem is that what happens in California tends to metastasize to points eastward.
$2 BILLION? An impossibly large number, which is why I used capital letters.
And the plaintiffs will a coupon good for 10% off their next purchase of RoundUp.
Well, That settles it then. If you get cancer and have every used glyphosate then that is what caused the cancer. Case closed.
If I ever get cancer I am going to find a pettifogging lawyer to sue the deepest pocket producer of anything I have ever eaten or used and sue them in the most ignorant liberal area I can possibly find.
This is absolutely stupid and dangerous.
Sometimes but every old time farmer round here died of cancer. I sprayed roundup from 14 to age 22 daily on the farm with a backpack sprayer, i am about to be tested for lymphoma the 22nd, I believe round up did it and I will be suing them if it is.
Yup! California the communists corrupt Democratic empire in the Union.
Sometimes but every old time farmer round here died of cancer. I sprayed roundup from 14 to age 22 daily on the farm with a backpack sprayer, i am about to be tested for lymphoma the 22nd, I believe round up did it and I will be suing them if it is.
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Of course you will. Lots of folk dream of hitting the lawsuit lottery. I sometimes wonder what caused lymphoma BEFORE Roundup was invented.
More liberal “science.”
Did you use protective gear?
Sometimes but every old time farmer round here died of cancer.
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Wow, thats astounding. Whatever did they die of BEFORE Roundup was invented.
Monsanto should quit selling it in Calipornia. F them.
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