Monsanto parent company Bayer faces 1000s of Roundup cancer cases after $2B verdict. - PhilMcCausland
Alva and Alberta Pilliod of Livermore, California, were both diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma after using the chemical on their lawns for years. After a five-week trial, the jury set punitive damages at $1 billion apiece for the couple, as well as another $55 million in damages.
“We are disappointed with the jury’s decision and will appeal the verdict in this case, which conflicts directly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s interim registration review decision released just last month, the consensus among leading health regulators worldwide that glyphosate-based products can be used safely and that glyphosate is not carcinogenic, and the 40 years of extensive scientific research on which their favorable conclusions are based,” they said.
“Legally this is preposterous,” Wisner said. “There are lawsuits involving drugs and products that have been approved by the EPA and FDA that won, so there’s a strong body of case law that says that doesn’t excuse you of liability. And compounding that, we have internal Monsanto documents in which they admit this is geno-toxic — they know this causes cancer.”
Culpepper said he talks to the occasional farmer who is concerned about the potential link to cancer, but, for the most part, they trust the regulatory authority and the product that has worked effectively against weeds. Still, some farmers feel that going after Roundup is equivalent to going after their crops during a difficult financial time.More than 160,000 farms in the U.S. disappeared from 2007 to 2017, according to the USDA Agriculture Census released in April, and many farmers are currently facing economic hardships from low commodity prices, the trade war with China and numerous natural disasters.
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