Bayer purchased Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup, for 63 billion dollars in 2018. That was a smart move by somebody and a dumb move by Bayer. Bayer is now faced with 30,000 lawsuits by individuals claiming they have been harmed by Roundup. Bayer attempted to make a 2 billion dollar settlement and get the court of grant immunity from all future lawsuits in a recent court case. The judge rejected the attempted settlement.
The precedent for legal immunity from the consequences of damage from
products was established in 1986 when pharmaceutical firms were granted
freedom from dealing with the consequences of damage done to individuals
from vaccinations. In this case with Bayer they ploy did not work.
Bayer is considering pulling Roundup off the consumer market but
continuing to sell it to agribusiness which would mean that it would
still be on and in the food people eat. The product may also have a
label that it is a "probable human carcinogen" which was the conclusion
of a study by the World Health Organization in 2015.
Bayer will continue to attempt to find a way out of the thousands of lawsuits it is faced with.
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