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The toxic herbicide industry — guilty of causing cancer — is seeking LEGAL IMMUNITY across the United States

03/22/2024 // Lance D Johnson // 350 Views

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The toxic herbicide industry, which continues to blast out carcinogens like glyphosate and atrazine, is seeking legal immunity across the United States. In a last-ditch effort to ward off multi-billion-dollar legal challenges, companies like Bayer and Syngenta are approaching legislators across the country and pushing them to pass legislation that would give their companies legal immunity against the lawsuits. In other words, these multinational corporations seek to harm people with impunity and operate above the law. If these bills pass, these corporations will not be held accountable for the damages imposed by their products.Bayer-Monsanto seek to poison people and take away their due process rights

Three states – Missouri, Idaho, and Iowa – are already considering the legislation. Missouri is the home state of Monsanto and the infamous chemical glyphosate (Roundup). Six years ago, Bayer bought out Monsanto. The merger has allowed these entities to continue the manufacture of glyphosate-based products, even after Monsanto was ordered to settle multi-million-dollar cases that proved Roundup caused non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Since then, Monsanto has reached settlement agreements for nearly 100,000 Roundup lawsuits, shelling out approximately $11 billion to people who were permanently harmed by the carcinogen. The public is becoming more aware of the damage caused by these chemicals. In 2020, Bayer agreed to a settlement of more than $10 billion for roughly 95,000 federal plaintiffs. On November 20, 2023, Bayer was ordered to settle a $1.5 billion verdict, and on January 26, 2024, they were ordered to settle another $2.25 billion verdict in Philadelphia. There are nearly 54,000 Roundup lawsuits still pending. Bayer has been able to negotiate block settlement agreements with the plaintiff’s lawyers before going to trial. This has kept the lawsuits out of the news and out of the public’s eye. However, Bayer is collapsing and has lost 70% of its stock value.
Syngenta, the manufacturer of atrazine and paraquat, is currently facing a lawsuit from 5,300 patients who suffer from Parkinson’s disease due to paraquat exposures. This corporation would also benefit from new state laws that would shield herbicide-makers from accountability.
Herbicide industry seeks the same protections that vaccine manufacturers mercilessly enjoy

The toxic herbicide industry is seeking the same kind of legal immunity that the vaccine industry has enjoyed for the past three decades. In 1986, Congress and President Ronald Reagan granted the vaccine industry legal immunity and established a special court to handle vaccine industry claims. The corrupt system shields vaccine manufacturers from jury trials and large settlements, permitting the industry to continue manufacturing products that harm people en masse. In return, the vaccine industry committed to paying a small excise tax for every vaccine dose to help fund small settlements for select cases approved by the Special Master of the Vaccine Court.
The toxic herbicide industry may seek something very similar and will make the case that their existence and their chemicals are necessary for the “greater good,” despite the thousands of claims proving them harmful to individuals.
When Idaho Senator Mark Harris (R) introduced the pesticide manufacturer legal immunity bill (Senate Bill 1245) on January 24, he pleaded that the state’s farmers couldn’t afford to lose “the agriculture pesticide products they depend on.” Just outside the senator’s city is Monsanto’s 800-acre compound, which includes their phosphate mine and processing plant. When Harris spoke with the Senate committee in February, he brought along a Bayer lobbyist to validate his concerns.
The Iowa pesticide manufacturer immunity bill was introduced on January 31st. When it came before a legislative committee, Bayer lobbyists were the only people who came to support the bill. Bayer operates a manufacturing plant in Iowa and employs a large number of people there.
Daniel Hinkle, an attorney with the American Association for Justice, warns that if these bills are successful, Bayer will push similar legislation in another 10 to 15 states next year, while making a stronger case for a federal law protecting them from lawsuits. Hinkle said these bills only "condone" these companies’ "reported history of deception and fraud," while putting the public at greater risk.
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BAYER PROTECTION ACT: Iowa Senate passes bill limiting lawsuits against pesticide manufacturers

04/16/2024 // Ethan Huff // 580 Views

Tags: badpollution, Bayer, biased, big business, Big Food, big government, chemicals, conspiracy, corporate agriculture, corruption, environ, EPA, glyphosate, herbicides, insanity, iowa, lawsuits, money supply, Monsanto, outrage, paraquat, pesticides, rigged, Roundup, Senate File 2412, toxins



One of the nation's largest conventional food-growing states just passed a bill that critics say protects the chemical agriculture industry from civil lawsuits.That state is Iowa, where state senators just passed Senate File 2412 to protect pesticide companies from lawsuits involving contaminated food that poisons and sickens consumers.
SF 2412 "allows that if a label is approved by the EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) and is consistent with the most recent human health assessment under federal law and the EPA's carcinogen classification, companies would be safe from civil liability."
In other words, just like with Big Pharma and its vaccines racket, the chemical ag racket can continue to flood the farming industry with dangerous and highly toxic growing chemicals without having to worry about being held liable for damages.
(Related: Did you know that 75 percent of fresh, non-organic produce sold in the United States contains toxic pesticide residue?)
Bayer, owner of Roundup, behind SF 2412

As you might expect, SF 2412 was not crafted by Iowa legislators. It is the product of Bayer, the new owner of Roundup (glyphosate), which a few years back purchased Monsanto.
Iowa Public Radio reported that Bayer proposed the bill not only in Iowa but also other heavy farming states in an attempt to shield itself from consumer lawsuits.
Bayer, as a side note, is drowning in lawsuits involving Roundup right now, so this more than likely played a role in the company's pushing of this new legislation.
"Bayer, the chemical company that produces Roundup, proposed the bill in Iowa and other states in an effort to reduce lawsuits alleging the commonly used weedkiller has caused cancer," Iowa Public Radio reported.
"It says pesticide makers cannot be held liable for failing to alert people of possible health risks as long as their products have a federally-approved label."
The report continues by revealing that SF 2412 specifically aims to limit lawsuits over Roundup, but also includes many other chemical pesticides known to damage human health.
"As cancer rates in Iowa rise, state lawmakers continue to advance a bill that would add legal protections for pesticide makers like Bayer, who helped write the bill," commented GMWatch, an independent organization that covers issues relating to genetically modified (GMO) crops and their associated pesticides.
Iowa Republican state senator Amy Sinclair, meanwhile, defends SF 2412, arguing it is needed to protect modern farming practices.
"Iowa feeds the world," Sinclair believes. "And we need partners in that who aren't constantly under threat of lawsuits for following the very laws governing the way they do business."
Republicans, by the way, are the reason why SF 2412 passed. Democrats in Iowa's state sent oppose the bill, warning it favors large corporations over the health of Iowa residents, including those who suffer from pesticide-related terminal illnesses.
"This bill is stripping away the legal protections for Iowa farmers," warned Senate Minority Leader Pam Jochum, a Democrat.
"And they are the people who are getting diseases like cancer and Parkinson's from chemicals they're putting on their land that we know [are] causing it."
Andrew Mertens from the Iowa Association for Justice told local media that numerous studies clearly show that exposure to the chemical products sprayed on crops increases one's risk of developing cancer or Parkinson's.
There is a link "between certain agricultural practices and pesticide use, and cancer," says the Iowa Cancer Consortium.
Back in 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) came to the conclusion that glyphosate specifically is "probably carcinogenic to humans."
"Republicans always side with big business over the people," one commenter wrote about one of the Republican Party's fatal flaws concerning issues like this.
The latest news about the chemical industry and how it poisons the food supply can be found at Pesticides.news.
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