Dateline: 30 July 2021 – When the first Roundup cancer lawsuit against Monsanto-Bayer was won in 2018, the logjam broke, and thousands more suits were filed. Since 2018, Bayer-Monsanto settled around 95,000 cases in 2020 to the tune of $10 billion, 90% of which were residential users. As a result, the company decided to pull the product from the residential market in order to prevent more.
But more than 200 million pounds of glyphosate are dumped on American farmland each year. Andrew Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety said “As agricultural, large-scale use of this toxic pesticide continues, our farmworkers remain at risk. It’s time for EPA to act and ban glyphosate for all uses”. More at – Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, Including Roundup, From U.S. Home and Garden Market | EcoWatch.
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