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Round Up (Glyphosate) Pesticides
Chemical corporations Byer is lobbying lawmakers in three states to pass bills providing it a legal shield from lawsuits that claim its popular weedkiller Roundup causes cancer. identical bills introduced in Iowa, Missouri and Idaho this year — with wording supplied by Bayer — would protect pesticide companies from claims they failed to warn that their product causes cancer, if their labels otherwise complied with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations.
Legal experts warn the legislation could have broader consequences, encompassing to any product liability claim or, in Iowa’s case, providing immunity from lawsuits of any kind. it could spread nationwide.
Bayer described the legislation as one strategy to address the current, future and liability it faces. About 167,000 legal claims against Bayer assert Roundup causes a cancer called non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which Bayer disputes. The company has won some cases, settled many others but also has suffered several losses in which juries awarded huge initial judgments. It has paid about $10 billion while thousands of claims linger in court.
Roundup was introduced to who Farmers overwhelmingly rely on Roundup, which was introduced 50 years ago as a more efficient way to control weeds and reduce tilling and soil erosion. For crops like corn, soybeans and cotton, it’s designed to work with genetically modified seeds that resist Roundup’s deadly effect.
Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, is derived from phosphate mined in Idaho. And St. Louis is the headquarters of its North America crop science division, acquired in its 2018 purchase of Monsanto. Because of that, many of the lawsuits are filed in Missouri. Led by Bayer, a coalition of agricultural organizations called Modern Ag Alliance also is spending tens of thousands of dollars on radio and print advertisements claiming that trial lawyers and litigation threaten the availability of glyphosate. The chemical company group asserts that at risk are 500 jobs connected to glyphosate production in Iowa, and 800 jobs in Idaho.
Companies are required to register products with the EPA, which evaluates, and then reevaluates every 15 years a pesticide and its label. The EPA repeated in 2020 that glyphosate used as directed posed no health risks to humans. But a federal appeals court panel in 2022 ruled that decision “was not supported by substantial evidence” and ordered the EPA to review further. The debate and public outcry over glyphosate escalated when a 2015 report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, said it’s “probably carcinogenic to humans” based on “limited” evidence of cancer in people and “sufficient” evidence in study animals.
Based on that international report, California sought to add a cancer warning label to products containing glyphosate. But a federal appeals court ruled against California last November, concluding such a warning wasn’t factual. Its more about the dollars than actually protecting the environment and peoples and animals health.
Many regulatory agencies worldwide agree with the EPA and insisted Bayer has to stick to EPA labeling to ensure it isn’t providing false or misleading information. Critics of the legislation aren’t convinced, citing examples such as opioids and asbestos that had been deemed safe for use as directed , until they weren’t. As far as I can see, is that greed dollars, are the justification of the continued use of these poisons. The companies do not want to pay out legal judgements aka be responsible for their products. The way they are drafting their liability claims through legislation makes it interpretable to mean nobody could bring any suit.
What is really interesting is that a farmer John Gilbert, who farms in Iowa Falls, Iowa, with limited use of Roundup, called Republicans hypocritical for attempting to protect corporate interests after campaigning on standing up for Iowans. The bill “invites a lot of reckless disregard,” said Gilbert, who is on the board for the Iowa Farmers Union. “No amount of perfume’s gonna make it anything but a skunk.
Even framers are concerned about the effects of Round Up, we al know chemicals cause issues with the soils, animal and human bodies, there should be no issue with suits against chemical companies. The EPA said DDT was just fine too, and look what DDT did t the environment, and eagle eggs with thin shells or deformed chicks with long or no beaks among other issues. My mom got DDT poisoning, dad used it to dust the potatoes in our garden, mom walked through there a few days later and it got on her feet, it caused severe stomach ache, she had blisters all over her body a inch thick, she went to Doc. Ackerson a well loved doctor in town and he knew what it was right away as he treated long shore men who got DDT on them while unloading it at the docks.
Doc Ackerson saved her life. But she was troubled with the after effects for decades, with randomly odd skin issues which would flair up for no reason. And these companies do not want to be truthful and acknowledge that their products cause bad health issues with humans and all life on this planet. And we haven’t even talked about the chemicals that are in our water which has caused birth defects in river otters and other life ½ mile from the river. Birth defects of reproduction organs to name a few. And these companies want you to believe their products are safe. If you do then you believe the earth is flat.
I will not use any pesticides on my property period. And neither should you if you value your health and everyone else’s where your runoff goes into the streams etc.
Tammy
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