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I mean, if there hadn't been settled lawsuits that proved the damage, maybe?
Look, regardless of what you personally think of Monsanto, every American has bought things that were defective or harmful in the past and presented the same argument when looking for a refund.
Caveat emptor is what we're told. Buyer beware. Do your due diligence. Bayer didn't go into this blind and I'm just curious why they should be any different than we are. Corporations are people, right?
I don't care about the companies involved, but I do care about misinformation and pseudoscience being spread about known biochemistry and toxicology for a personal motive. Glyphosate is used in a wide variety of scientific fields that have nothing to do with agriculture and these lawsuits don't even attempt to prove the claims of cancer.
They are entirely emotion-based jury decisions with the plaintiffs' lawyers going that route, rather than trying to provide scientific evidence for the claimed harm.
That’s what happens when you have this type of system. It’s not efficient, but better to stop it when it’s harming the consumer, imo.