Bayer, which acquired Monsanto in 2018, has recently broken its winning trial record with a number of jury verdicts against it.

Bayer’s Monsanto was ordered to pay more than $1.5 billion Friday over claims its patented weed-killer, Roundup, was linked to users’ cancer, Bloomberg reported.

James Draeger, Valerie Gunther and Dan Anderson were each awarded a total of $61.1 million in actual damages and $500 million each in punitive damages by jurors in state court in Jefferson City, Missouri.

The three people alleged that their non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas — a type of cancer that begins in your lymphatic system, part of the body’s immune system — were caused by years of using Roundup while gardening.

  • splonglo@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 year ago

    A Monsanto shill claimed he would drink the stuff on TV in an interview to prove how safe it was, but the interviewer called him out on his bluff and he refused to do it LMAO. Guy’s name was Patrick Moore, ex-greenpeace founder turned paid shill for whatever company is paying him, usually it’s climate change denial.

    • rayyy@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      True story: When I was in grade school another kid bragged that a 2-4-D salesman told a bunch of loggers that it was so safe that you could drink it. Afterwards one of the loggers put a $50 bill next to a small cup of the herbicide and dared anyone to drink it for the money. The kids dad drank it and snatched the money. He died of cancer within 10 years.

    • aidan@lemmy.world
      61·
      1 year ago

      How can you be an ex-founder of something? That’s like being an ex-inventor or ex-murderer.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      He’s also the one who called out Greenpeace for their anti-nuclear stance. Which was correct on his part, but it’s sad to see that stance comes with so much other baggage.