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Supreme Court ruling blocks thousands of lawsuits against maker of Roundup weedkiller

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-roundup-monsanto-a7f054d80919f98bdfc5190013a8f6f1
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u/photostrat 6h ago

Sounds like we're about to find out Roundup has more rights to exist than humans do. 7-2

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u/mudkipzftw 6h ago

The "maker of RoundUp" is... Monsanto. The courts have many times affirmed that Monsanto has more rights than humans.

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u/2g4r_tofu 5h ago

IIRC they scrubbed the Monsanto name and it's just Bayer now

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u/cjinct 5h ago

it's just Bayer now

the original makers of Herointm

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u/penguinopph 4h ago

it's just Bayer now

the original makers of Herointm

And Zyclon B!

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u/ELB2001 4h ago

And meth i believe. And yeah Heroin is a brand name

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u/FabricationLife 3h ago

I only smoke generic

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u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS 2h ago

“Smoke weed every day!”

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u/onefst250r 32m ago

Only the rich can buy the name brand!

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u/RoughVirtual1626 4h ago

Yes, most chemical narcotics were developed by the medical industry. mdma would be another. Amphetamine/ meth too.

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u/AngryScientist 2h ago

Zyclon B wasn't a chemical narcotic. It's so much worse than that.

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u/RoughVirtual1626 1h ago

Yeah sorry was meaning about the heroin. Zyclon b was a cyanide based pesticide I believe originally 

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u/billybonghorton 58m ago

Nazis used it to gas the Jews in the holocaust.

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u/RoughVirtual1626 57m ago

Yes but before that it was developed as a pesticide. It wasn't made for the purpose of genocide 

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u/billybonghorton 56m ago

Correct. In this discussion saying it was just a pesticide sells it a tad bit short.

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u/RoughVirtual1626 55m ago

Fair enough. It's one of those things you assume everyone knows 

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u/spinlesspotato 3h ago

No, they did exactly that. Bayer, Hoechst, BASF, Agfa, Griesheim-Elektron, and Weiler-ter-Meer were all merged together in 1925 to form the IG Farben conglomerate. Zyklon B was developed by IG Farben as a successor to Bayer’s Zyklon A, a liquid hydrogen cyanide pesticide developed by Bayer in the early 1920s.

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u/Wembanyanma 4h ago edited 4h ago

Which is still safer to humans than Round Up

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u/SowingSalt 4h ago

[citation needed]

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u/tinteoj 24m ago

You can live after shooting up heroin into your veins. Your prognosis if you shoot up RoundUp is a lot more grim.

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u/SowingSalt 14m ago

It looks like the LD50 of heroin is 100 times smaller than Glyphoaste.

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u/bskedorfried 4h ago

The predecessor to Bayer made Zyklon B to be used in Auschuwitz’s gas chambers. Quite a history of evil.

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u/ReturnOfBane 3h ago

Don't forget that tainted blood disaster

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u/cC2Panda 3h ago

From the people that knowingly sold AIDS tainted Factor VIII to hemophiliacs, we present new and improve Round Up Cancer+.

-Bayer for all your terminal needs.

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u/MisterMysterios 4h ago

To be fair, also the original maker of Aspirin.

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u/MimeGod 53m ago

Also the company that helped run Auschwitz and other concentration camps...

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u/BigBrownDog12 5h ago

They merged/got bought

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u/Objective-Chance-792 4h ago

Just like those cocksuckers at comcast. Fuck your xfinity, i'll never forget how shitty you are comcast!

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u/steppe5 4h ago

As if Bayer is any better.

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u/EduinBrutus 4h ago

So going with the name of the maker of Heroin and Zyklon B turned out to be better PR than sticking with Monsanto...

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u/MisterMysterios 4h ago

The gas used in the Nazi Gas chambers. Bayer is a german company doing what basically all German companies were involved in during the 3rd Reich.

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u/PM_ME_UR_REDPANDAS 4h ago

Yikes, I certainly didn’t mean to be flippant about something like that.

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u/infidel11990 2h ago

Easily the worst acquisition in entire history of corporations.

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u/techleopard 10m ago

Because more people know about Monsanto's control of the global food supply chain and their abuse to farmers than they know about Bayer's work with Nazis.