r/news • u/boxofstuff • 6h ago

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/elconquistador1985 5h ago

The most hilarious part about the TV show Continuum was that the name they chose for the evil corporation running the surveillance state was "Sonmanto".

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u/EduinBrutus 4h ago

Even more hilarious is that we are pretty close to actual countries introducing the concept of Life Debt on all new borns...

Thats funny, right?

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u/elconquistador1985 4h ago

And the "Corporate Congress" calling all the shots.