Bayer to pay $1.56B in latest loss over cancer-causing Roundup weedkiller
A Cole County, Mo., jury found on Friday that Bayer’s Monsanto business was liable for claims of negligence, design defects and failing to warn plaintiffs of the potential dangers of using Roundup, ac
A Cole County, Mo., jury found on Friday that Bayer’s Monsanto business was liable for claims of negligence, design defects and failing to warn plaintiffs of the potential dangers of using Roundup, according to court documents.
Valorie Gunther of New York, Jimmy Draeger of Missouri and Daniel Anderson of California were awarded a combined $61.1 million in compensatory damages and $500 million each in punitive damages.
Each of the plaintiffs was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma that they alleged was caused by using Roundup on their family property.
Draeger’s wife, Brenda, was also awarded $100,000 for the harm she allegedly suffered from her husband’s disease.
The plaintiffs argued that exposure to the glyphosate in Roundup caused the cancer, which typically starts in white blood cells and causes symptoms including enlarged lymph nodes, fatigue, dramatic weight loss, trouble breathing and night sweats, according to the Mayo Clinic.
A County Cole, Mo., judge on Friday found that the glyphosate chemical found in Roundup led to a cancer diagnosis in three people: Valorie Gunther of New York, Jimmy Draeger of Missouri and Daniel Anderson of California. REUTERS
Roundup, the most widely-used herbicide to kill weeds in the US, reportedly contains 41% glyphosate, which Bayer has repeatedly argued is safe for human use.
“The court’s verdict is not just a triumph of justice; it’s a clarion call to Bayer, making it clear that no entity can escape accountability. This is the first of many victories as we continue to seek justice for thousands of innocent victims,” said Bart Rankin, partner at Forrest Weldon which represented the plaintiffs.
Representatives for Bayer told The Post in an emailed statement: “We have strong arguments to get the recent unfounded verdicts overturned. We won nine of the last 13 trials and the majority of claims in this litigation are resolved. The company remains fully committed to defending the robust scientific and regulatory evidence in future trials and appeals.”
Shares of the German-based drugmaker slid more than 18% on Monday to their lowest in 12 years.
On Sunday, Bayer announced it had to abort a large late-stage trial testing a new anti-clotting drug due to lack of efficacy, throwing its most promising development project in doubt.
Friday’s verdict was the fourth straight loss in court for Bayer, which has recently doled out more than $500 million in the previous three litigation losses.
The company had been found not liable to plaintiffs in nine consecutive trials before that.
In 2020, Bayer settled most of the then-pending Roundup cases for up to $10.9 billion.
Around 50,000 claims remain pending, according to regulatory filings.
Bayer has coughed up hundreds of millions in damages over the years in cases regarding the chemicals in Roundup, which it has maintained are safe for human use. Friday’s verdict is the fourth straight loss in court for the Germany-based company.REUTERS
Around 165,000 claims have been made against the company for personal injuries allegedly caused by Roundup, which Bayer acquired as part of its $63 billion purchase of agrochemical company Monsanto in 2018.
That same year marked the first time a lawsuit was filed to go to trial alleging glyphosate causes cancer.
The case involved a California school groundskeeper caused his cancer, and ended in a $250 million payout to the worker, Dewayne Johnson, when a jury found that Monsanto had failed to warn Johnson and other consumers of the cancer risks posed by its weed killers.
Campamento Tortuguero Playa Hermosa is a turtle sanctuary on Bonfil Beach outside of Acapulco that rescues sea turtle eggs that would be likely destroyed by vehicles on the beaches or pilfered by tourists. The sanctuary protects the eggs, hatches them and releases the babies into the ocean while protecting them from seagulls and other winged predators.
The 35-year-old sanctuary is run by the mother/daughter duo of Monica and Michel Vallarino, who have helped educate the community and the tourists on the ecology of the turtles while simultaneously providing a refuge for puppies, kittens, ducks, rabbits, and other wayward animals.
The Art of Liberty Foundation hosted an annual fundraiser from 2018-2020 called the Art of Liberty on the Beach (aKa The Turtle Party), where many of the leading artists in the liberty movement have rocked the sanctuary including Grant "Prezence" Ellman, Truniversal/Free Willow, Alais Clay, the Freenauts, DJ Koala, DJ Ramiro Romani and ELA-mental among others.
The sanctuary was devasted by Hurricane Otis, a category five hurricane that hit Acapulco and Bonfil Beach on November 2nd 2023.
25% of Funds Raised Will Benefit Other Residents of Bonfil Beach.
The Art of Liberty Foundation is organizing a fundraiser where 100% of the proceeds will go to direct relief. The Vallarinos have agreed to share 25% of the proceeds with other Bonfil Beach residents in need to be distributed at their discretion.
Why are my county officials in Camden County not doing the same and freeing us from Monsanto, or the Vaxx for that matter? How about the bought elected officials of all the other cities, counties, states or nations? Perhaps I’m just too boxed in and unaware of the actual numbers, but I’ve had a sense there are only a few real humans left, struggling like I have been for decades, trying to open the minds of individuals in power operating from suppressive positions without legitimacy; the moral or legal right to do so. Just like so many others, generation after generation, I’ve tried to convince sitting politicians and judges how wrong they are, hoping to turn on their critical thinking skills, yet no meaningful action to date, just half-measures and subterfuge followed by more “organized” chaos.
So what must be said or done to get “them” to admit what they have known for decades; that “they” are the problem and that their system of politics they agree upon is inhuman, unconstitutional and satanic to it’s core, then either do as We the People majority keep demanding or step down? But if they ignite another FalseFlag event to distract us just as we begin to make some progress toward lasting peace, again, how do we ever remove these monsters?
They, both the Republicans and Democrats in power refuse to admit that both parties are to blame, equally, not their brainwashed constituents driven to hate each-other. Those currently in power and monsters like Trump hoping to regain power have very talented psychologists and lawyers mezzing their constituents, and none of them have any intention of actually helping evolve a legitimate republic democracy which will benefit all the people by finally ending the Left vs. Right paradigms leading us into another world war.
By the way, where the hell are all the wealthy, talented investigative reporters, who should begin their investigations internally, then honestly report to the public how and why they are all speaking in sync with no signs of independent thought—as if they are complicit-guilty—aiding and abetting the criminals within our governments and those who own them from BlackRock and other monopolistic corporations, for instance?
The solution is NOT just filing claims with cash payouts that will never happen, and if they do, mostly enrich the shit lawyers leaving the majority hopeless and helpless, again and again. We MUST begin making arrests and liquidate all the assets of these criminal corporations AND their criminally-liable politicians, lawyers and bought Justices, along with ending their rights to immunity (like the Royalty of England enjoy), as well as their bogus rights to file for bankruptcy protections—then tell me there isn’t enough for everyone.
We need to begin protecting the farmers we rely upon, starting with the end of all GMO’s and mandatory veterinary vaccines & antibiotics abuse. We MUST also end the use of ALL insecticides, not just weed killers. Intelligent use of organic, naturally-occurring pheromones is legitimate, but ALL GMO’s and insecticides are a fu🤬ng fraud, and their lawyers know it.
We MUST also end compulsory ChemTrails and shut down all 5 & 6G cell towers, not just the mandatory COVID Vaxx Bioweapons that were engineered to work with it. ALL compulsory, pathological, synthetic weapon mandates must end, particularly the bioengineered weaponized food and medicines that “shed” to those who’ve tried to resist, but have unsuccessfully protected themselves and are now sick, dying or dead already.
When will all State Police and County Sheriffs in the USA start working together, for us the people, rather than continue protecting bought politicians and the oligarchs who own them? When will they begin arresting fellow corrupt cops within their own department on all levels of government, then guilty city council members, mayors, state representatives, governors, senators, Presidents (current and former), Bill Gates, Kissinger, Rockefeller, Rothschild…and all of their guilty lawyers, then start closing down BlackRock, Monsanto, Pfizer, Raytheon…and a thousand other disease & war profiteering criminal companies & corporations, and then end the private Federal Reserve and Federal Government’s overreaching powers? What, am I asking too much from those who demand the poor must war each-other every generation?
I’m sick of all of these worthless fu🤬ng bureaucrats protecting criminal lawyers who protect whores like Bill Gates. So who’s responsible for investigating the corrupt investigators and cops? Who’s responsible for arresting all the corrupt lawyers at the Justice & State Department, CIA, NSA, DoD, FBI, FDA, EPA…especially after We the People have proven beyond reasonable doubt they are all guilty of Crimes Against Humanity?
Every day the people majority do nothing, because of unconstitutional laws by manipulative lawyers insisting that the people have no power to resist or right to form militias and begin arresting the criminals within their own governments, we are one day closer to a worldwide nuclear End Times event in which we will never recover. We’re told the original constitution they have shredded, which would save us, is no longer valid, but that’s bullshit and the lawyers and judges protecting the criminal billionaires & trillionaires know it.
Day by day we become more trapped and enslaved by “their” politicians and our own False Pride neighbor cops & soldiers protecting the few, all of them trained to never question immoral, inhuman orders. So now what, wait for God to show up or fool ourselves into believing the dictator on the other side of Satan’s ass wearing different gang colors will save us?
Stop believing the fraud of scarcity and overpopulation. Stop believing in “good vs. evil;” that your fight club and masters have the righteous-good torturous prisons, boarder conflicts and murderous war protocols. Then, get the help of your few legitimate senior cops, general officers and veterans to help form functional militias and begin arresting all the politicians and their lawyers trapping the world to the fraud of conflicts and war. Think: If world war is always feasible, don’t tell me well armed, professionally organized, peaceful militias are out of the question. We not only have a right to discuss, organize and take these measures, but a God given and constitutional duty to do so in order to prevent the wars these criminal politicians trap us to every generation.
If you can believe in dumping endless resources and bodies into illegitimate wars, no matter the cost and without honest accounting, what prevents you from dumping those same resources or less into an infrastructure that will provide all free people Clean and FREE energy, water, communications, currency, transit, education and heath care—which in the real world of medicine is mostly knowledge, honest diagnostics, freedom and choice—all at a fraction of the cost of the fraud of war?
Think, people. Resist the dictators threatening you with your own people. Believe the truth, the beauty of humanity and everything possible in today’s world if only we were free, educated people-individuals in the first place. Imagine, if you can, a world free people could compete fairly, pay fair trade taxes and give selflessly, just as they do for the fraud of war, but instead, working together to build the infrastructures we are being denied which would forever prevent all poverty and war.
With property built utility infrastructures, every living soul on earth would have the natural born right and ability to save themselves, especially with today’s technology; Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computers and Robots they are currently abusing in secret to get humanity to reject the science solutions that would save them. And for those who can’t help themselves, no matter the reason, We the People now have the ability to help the helpless individuals easier than ever before, mostly indirectly, rather than blindly accept the lies of scarcity, overpopulation, disease and war the Eugenicists have trapped us to. ☮️ 💕 🗽 for all—sincerely.
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