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Bayer says legal woes could force it to pull weedkiller
France24 | AFP ^ | April 25, 2025

Posted on 04/25/2025 4:19:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Berlin (AFP) – German chemicals giant Bayer said Friday it could be forced to pull its Roundup weedkiller from the market if it is not able to limit simmering legal troubles.

"We're nearing a point where the litigation industry could force us to even stop selling this vital product," CEO Bill Anderson said at Bayer's annual general meeting.

Bayer has been dogged by lawsuits linked to Roundup since it acquired the US manufacturer Monsanto in a blockbuster deal in 2018.

Claimants have alleged that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, causes blood cancers but Bayer says scientific studies and regulatory approvals show that the weedkiller is safe.

Bayer has battled to draw a line under Roundup litigation, spending more than $10 billion (8.8 billion euros) to date to settle suits alleging that Bayer failed to disclose health risks.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Gardening; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: bayer; goodnews; roundup; weeds
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To: Bigg Red

“my method is to use a plastic grocery store...”

You mean plastic bag of course. In many places they are under attack too.

Plastics and Roundup are too immersed in our modern world to be eliminated unscientifically.

Lawfare uses fear not science.


21 posted on 04/25/2025 5:38:25 AM PDT by JeanLM
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To: dynoman; P8riot; jonatron; ProtectOurFreedom; small farm girl; Bigg Red

“We have a bottle of roundup here that has zero glyphosate in it.”


Riiiiiiiiiiight. /s

Bayer’s New “Glyphosate-Free” Roundup May Be 45x MORE Toxic Than Before

https://thefiltery.com/glyphosate-free-roundup-more-toxic-than-before/


22 posted on 04/25/2025 5:39:08 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Smittie

Round Up isn’t used on lawns.


23 posted on 04/25/2025 5:47:39 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: logi_cal869

Bayer: Killing innocent people since the 1930’s.


24 posted on 04/25/2025 5:53:28 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Nifster

That’s a BINGO!

“It was manufactured by two German companies: Tesch and Stabenow (which was based in Hamburg) and Degesch (which was based in Dessau). Zyklon“

- from: https://www.britannica.com/science/Zyklon-B

However, according to DuckDuckGo’s AI:

BASF Chemicals in WW2

During World War II, BASF, as part of the conglomerate IG Farben, manufactured a variety of chemicals, including Zyklon B, which was used in the gas chambers of Nazi concentration camps. IG Farben also extensively employed forced and slave labor during this period.


25 posted on 04/25/2025 5:53:30 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America, MAGA/MAHA rising.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Glyphosate is the DDT of herbicides. It has been absolutely critical to our native plant restoration project. The amounts I use are small but for the quantity used directly on redwood stems as a stump treatment, without which that forest will never recover its forest floor biodiversity and would instead become a fire hazard of rampant root crown sprouts.

This corrupt move is in favor of the newly patented glufosinate ammonium. Bayer bought Monsanto and already had also patented "glufosinate ammonium ready seed" available.

26 posted on 04/25/2025 5:54:28 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Does so
Bayer didn’t understand American lawfare.

Poppycock. They're looking to cash in on it.

27 posted on 04/25/2025 5:55:46 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Bayer -- the company today is massive, multinational and wants to limit liability. Germany and other European nations are pulling back use of glyphosate which means the US market is very necessary to their bottom line.

Stefan Oelrich (Bayer): mRNA vaccines are Gene Therapy Bayer exec on gene therapy, a 41 second clip from his speech to World Health Summit.
Nice to say "when you need glyphosate, you need glyphosate" but how many today would say "when you need mRNA jabs, you need mRNA jabs?"

It's about marketing. It's always about marketing.

--- ""We're nearing a point where the litigation industry could force us to even stop selling this vital product...."

Indeed. And just as the chemical business competes for your dollars, so does the litigation industry, the news media, the weapons manufacturers, the social media folks, and so on.

We're their profit centers. We're their data. And we are their objects of marketing.

28 posted on 04/25/2025 5:57:29 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Do you know if that grain remains viable as seed after glyphosate dessication?


29 posted on 04/25/2025 5:57:29 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: logi_cal869

It’s gotta be toxic to kill weeds.


30 posted on 04/25/2025 5:59:48 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: normbal

I wonder how many prescription medications people take that are far more risky than glyphosate.


31 posted on 04/25/2025 6:03:26 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: normbal
IG Farben also extensively employed forced and slave labor during this period.

Such as the plant outside Dachau.

Do you have any solid reference to Rockefeller participation in that activity? I've found lots of noise about it, but nothing I would use as a citation.

32 posted on 04/25/2025 6:03:27 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: dynoman

33 posted on 04/25/2025 6:03:34 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: logi_cal869

Read post 9. That was a prescription medication. Probably worse than glyphosate.


34 posted on 04/25/2025 6:04:52 AM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: dynoman

Ironically, that image comes from a 2015 article wholly defending the chemical.

The public has learned a lot since then of course (some of the public, not so much).


35 posted on 04/25/2025 6:06:32 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, please, yes!

Needless killer made even worse with “Roundup ready” seeds.


36 posted on 04/25/2025 6:07:41 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Nervous Tick

Ever think of where your nervous tick may have come from?!?


37 posted on 04/25/2025 6:08:03 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: normbal

Bayer is not from BASF. They are two diffferent companies. They were formed after WW II when the Allies split up I.G. Farben into three separate companies; Bayer, BASF and Hoechst. I worked for Hoechst for 18 years and had a lot of contact with all three.
The Hoechst part made Zyklon B in a plant I spent time in.

Roundup has been tested and retested as to its safety in the food chain. Its elimination would be an agricultural disaster for the US. Corn, soy beans and cotton would lose significant crop yields if it were banned.

The keys to the Roundup action are the roundup-resistant seeds Monsanto developed that allow the weeds to be killed and the crop to survive. DuPont had similar products.

The fact that Bayer could afford the 10B tax on the product is a neasure of how profitable this is. The farmers are willing to pay to get the yield.

Lawyers are now mining the ignorance and fears of US juries to get their cut and kill a valuable technology.


38 posted on 04/25/2025 6:08:10 AM PDT by JeanLM
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To: jonatron
All herbicides kill things. Roundup is significantly more benign than the alternatives.

The witch hunt against Roundup started with the environmental Luddites who are opposed in principle to large scale, technology intensive production agriculture -- and a lot of that came originally from the Europeans who were desperately seeking non-tariff trade barriers to allow European microfarms to stay in business vs. modern agriculture in the U.S., Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, and the Ukraine.

Buy a clue. You don't lease a new $400,000 combine every three years to farm 20 acres. So how does the 20 acre gardener stay in business and earn a decent living against modern production agriculture? Answer: the same way a home woodworking enthusiast who makes furniture, or the people who enjoy hand weaving on old fashioned looms, or mechanically minded tinkerers who would like to build cars in a machine shed in back might stay in business: suppression of the competition and massive subsidies, if anyone were fool enough to arrange an entire economy that way. (Ooooh, just think of all the jobs! Bernie Sanders is sold.) Let's hear it for artisanal production!!!!

The WTO limited trade distorting tariffs on agricultural products. But France, the UK, etc. don't have production agriculture as we understand it. They have landscape gardening programs that produce food on the side. They can get reasonably high yields because farmers can intensively cultivate their little 20-40 acre truck gardens, but they can't live on that. They live on government subsidies under the EU's common agricultural program in which they are paid for providing "social benefits" such as scenic hedgerows, stone walls dividing tiny plots, lots of weed and insect habitat, etc.

Try restructuring Iowa and Nebraska around 20-40 acre hobby farms. Yes, that would provide lots of employment as we restored a premodern peasant class. But then we would have to pay them massive social benefits welfare benefits to give them a middle class life. You can't have cute Swiss cows grazing on picturesque Swiss mountainsides if Swiss farmers had to compete with Wisconsin and Iowa. So: how could they keep the evil Americans out?

The solution: for a start, turn Roundup into a boogeyman and demonize Monsanto. The first wave of GMO crops were grains genetically modified to be Roundup tolerant. Farmers could shift to low-till and no-till farming systems (which reduce passes over the field, slash fuel consumption, help prevent soil erosion, and improve moisture retention). Plant the GMO corn and soybeans. When plants started to emerge, spray the field with Roundup, which kills all the weeds while the corn and soybeans thrive. That also eliminates a lot of insect habitat. It boosts productivity all around. Farmers in the U.S. aren't paid for providing insect habitat. Farmers in the EU are. Everything flows from that. The radical, anti-modern agriculture enviros ate that up because almost no environmental activists have ever done a lick of real work (let alone spend all day every day doing drudge labor in the fields), and they have consistently lied through their teeth about every imaginary hobgoblin they can conjure up. They get away with it because the press is incompetent, corrupt, ideologically driven, and lazy.

And then the lawyers step in to monetize the lies. That's lawfare.

39 posted on 04/25/2025 6:10:02 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: dynoman

Oh, I am aware.

This is all interconnected (’roundup’, jabs, statins, etc.).

I hearken to my prior & persistent lambasting of RFK Jr, whose immediate priority is food dyes.

Ironically, DOGE hasn’t been at NIH yet; I wonder why (that’s not sarcasm).


40 posted on 04/25/2025 6:10:13 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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