{"id":138524,"date":"2019-04-02T19:06:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138524"},"modified":"2019-04-02T19:06:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T01:06:35","slug":"heading-toward-the-last-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/heading-toward-the-last-roundup.html","title":{"rendered":"Heading toward the last Roundup?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Monsanto (now owned by German pharma giant Bayer) took a huge hit in court last week, with a jury finding that its star product, Roundup, is a carcinogen.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday afternoon, German chemical giant Bayer sustained another costly legal defeat related to Monsanto, the US seed and pesticide giant it subsumed last year. A US District Court jury in San Francisco awarded plaintiff Edward Hardeman $80.3 million\u2014including $75 million in damages\u2014after ruling that Monsanto\u2019s blockbuster glyphosate-based Roundup herbicides had caused his case of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/p>\n

[…] On Thursday, yet another glyphosate trial opened in the Superior Court of California for the County of Alameda. The plaintiffs, a married couple named Alva and Alberta Pilliod, claim long-term exposure to Roundup herbicide caused them both to develop non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Theirs is the first of more than 250 Roundup cancer cases consolidated before Superior Court of California Judge Winifred Smith.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Roundup is highly valuable to Monsanto, not just as a remarkably effective weed-killer, but by letting it sell Roundup-resistant seed, which makes weed-free farming terrifically easy (plant your seeds, spray it all with Roundup, and just the stuff you want grows). Monsanto has earned oodles of money that way — which is why Bayer’s stock has taken such a hit.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s share price has plunged nearly 25 percent since the phase-one verdict on March 18, and by more than 40 percent since mid-August 2018, when a California Superior Court jury awarded school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson $289 million in damages after ruling that Roundup exposure had caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma. (The award was later reduced to $78 million\u2014roughly equal to the damages decided in the Hardeman case.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As a home gardner, I love Roundup as much as anyone. But increasing evidence that its got some nasty effects led me to stop using it at home. Which doesn’t mean that the replacement weed killer I’m using won’t cause me to grow a second head, but that’s a story for another lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Do you want to know more?\u00a0<\/em>The Latest $80 Million Cancer Judgment Is Just the Beginning of Roundup\u2019s Woes \u2013 Mother Jones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monsanto’s weed-killer is, ironically, bringing down its new corporate owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,63,70],"tags":[1820,1821],"class_list":["post-138524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-business","category-environment","category-health-science","tag-glyphosate","tag-monsanto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/round-up.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2547,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/06\/virtual_posters.html","url_meta":{"origin":138524,"position":0},"title":"Virtual posters","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Jun-02 10:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Did Monsanto's PR firm create ersatz on-line critics to discredit a paper in Nature critical of Monsanto's GM crops? 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Well, at least look not particularly or unusually Evil. [F]or nearly 40 years, while producing the...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7190,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/12\/roundup.html","url_meta":{"origin":138524,"position":3},"title":"Roundup","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Oct-04 8:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"This month's Rocky Mountain Blog Roundup finally has an entry by me (i.e., I finally got around to submitting something). 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