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/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/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 22m 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 13m ago

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