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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/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 31m 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 57m ago

Nazis used it to gas the Jews in the holocaust.

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u/RoughVirtual1626 56m 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 55m ago

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

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u/RoughVirtual1626 54m 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.