Cassie B.— Natural News April 8, 2025
- Bayer is urging the Supreme Court to block state lawsuits tying Roundup to cancer, seeking to silence victims and protect profits.
- The company faces a $16 billion legal crisis, including a recent $2.1 billion verdict in Georgia.
- Over 181,000 claims blame glyphosate for cancer, despite Bayer and the EPA denying risks contradicted by independent research.
- Bayer is lobbying states to shield pesticide makers from lawsuits, sparking backlash from lawmakers and affected families.
- Internal emails reveal Monsanto manipulated EPA studies, but courts continue ruling in favor of cancer victims.
In an outrageous attempt to dodge accountability, agrochemical giant Bayer has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt all state lawsuits linking its flagship herbicide Roundup to cancer in a blatant power grab aimed at silencing victims and protecting profits. The company’s petition, filed last week, argues that federal pesticide laws should prevent states from requiring cancer warnings, even as billions in jury verdicts and settlements pile up over Roundup’s alleged role in causing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The appeal follows a Missouri court’s $1.25 million verdict for a St. Louis man who developed cancer after years of using Roundup—a case Bayer insists should never have gone to trial. But this isn’t an isolated incident. Just last month, a Georgia jury hit Bayer with a staggering $2.1 billion penalty in another Roundup lawsuit, adding to the company’s $16 billion in existing legal liabilities. The question isn’t just about science—it’s about corporate greed rigging the system.
A pattern of evasion
Bayer, which bought Monsanto in 2018, inherited not just Roundup but a legal nightmare. Over 181,000 claims blame glyphosate—Roundup’s key ingredient—for causing cancer, with studies from the World Health Organization’s cancer agency labeling it “probably carcinogenic.” Yet Bayer clings to the EPA’s controversial stance that glyphosate is safe, even as courts and independent researchers dispute it.
The Supreme Court rejected Bayer’s plea in 2022, but the company is banking on a favorable ruling now, citing conflicting appeals court decisions. A win would torpedo future lawsuits, shielding Bayer from billions more in payouts—a lifeline for a company whose stock has cratered 70% since the Monsanto deal.
Doubling down on lobbying
Even as it fights in court, Bayer is pushing state legislatures to grant immunity to pesticide makers. Georgia just passed a Bayer-backed bill shielding companies from failure-to-warn lawsuits if their products carry federal approval—a move critics call the “cancer gag act.” Similar bills are advancing in Tennessee, North Dakota, and Iowa, though grassroots pushback has stalled some efforts.
In Missouri, Republican state Sen. Nick Schroer blasted the proposal as a “betrayal of public trust,” while Iowa’s House Republicans refused to advance the bill amid outcry from families who blame pesticides for loved ones’ cancers.
Profits over people
Bayer’s threats to pull glyphosate from the U.S. market if lawsuits continue ring hollow. The company already removed it from consumer Roundup products—but not agricultural ones, where profits are higher. “If glyphosate falls to the litigation industry, what’s next?” asked Bayer’s Jess Christiansen, framing accountability as a threat to “innovation.” But for farmers and landscapers diagnosed with cancer after decades of use, the real innovation would be honesty.
The EPA’s cozy relationship with agrochemical giants is under fire, too. While the agency insists glyphosate is safe, internal emails reveal Monsanto manipulated studies and leaned on regulators to suppress concerns. Courts, meanwhile, keep siding with victims—like the California couple awarded $86 million in 2022, a verdict Bayer couldn’t overturn.
Bayer’s Supreme Court ploy is a last-ditch effort to escape justice, but the tide is turning. With billions in losses, a collapsing stock price, and mounting public anger, the company’s playbook—delay, deny, deflect—may be running out of time. For the thousands awaiting their day in court, the message is clear: No corporate shield should outweigh the right to know if a product could kill you.
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Anyone else notice how many new ways of getting cancer and heart problems have arisen since 2020??? Hhhmmmm
F*ck Bayer. Monsatan has done unspeakably evil things and had a custom and practice of operating in a criminally insane manner, completely without ethics and focused on domination and profit no matter the consequences. If Monsatan were a person, they’d be labeled a psychopath. And Bayer, knowing that, bought Monsatan and happily brought that frothing demon into the fold. So f*ck Bayer. They should be driven into bankruptcy and the Board of Directors and executives chased through the streets and executed in excruciatingly painful manners. Spokescum such as Jess Christiansen deserve to have their tongues nailed to tree stumps, get vigorously flogged, rolled in pig shit and glyphosate, then hanged from lightposts in front of the corporate headquarters.
Courts always protect corporate interests, its how they become millionaires.
I hope they get sued out of existence along with every other killer pharma company, along with gaol time for the management.
Really not that hard, if they could just find a CEO to drink a glass of roundup, maybe have the lawyers drink the rest…
Paul Fuller
Heart failure warning as people told not to ignore surprisingly common symptom
Story by Storm Newton •
a surprising impairment increases a person’s risk of heart failure, a new study has found.
The study found that psychological distress caused by this plays a “notable” role in developing problems with the heart.
Experts in China analysed UK Biobank data from 164,431 people who had completed tests designed to determine facts for the study.
Of the total, some shocking figures 160,062 were affected
They were put into three groups based on their performance in a digit triplet test (DTT), which screens for
problems by using random combinations of digits against background noise
It was found that those considered perverts e g homosexuals and socialists were the most affected
some professions such as politicians had both afflictions and were both socialist and ” boy-nobbers”
Kier Starmer said as he lay in his hospital bed, neither one has affected me
but it had affected carl jones in the next bed and made him a mental case
i see these worthless uptight white americans spraying these toxic herbicides on their lawns whenever i go driving somewhere
yes what you stupid german BAYER thought why
Monsanto sold out to you ? they knew that they would
get big problems with Glyphosat so they sold it to you
that again fuckn germans are the culpits for future desasters .
jews (Monsanto) are sly you stupid germans . when will
you learn to be jew wise ?
I read many years ago perhaps back in the 1980s another problem with pesticides they have managed to suppress even now. A report said many children born to wives of farmers were born with undeveloped eyes. It didn’t report what ingredient was doing this nor how it prevented the development, but it should be remembered we come into limited contact with these pesticides whereas farmers and their families live amongst the residue after they’ve been sprayed. I think the report said what concerns the authorities is not the compensation for damages which their lawyers could probably have limited by the courts, but the demands to stop using these toxins would be such that the loss of crops to pests would make food vastly more expensive and even unprofitable. So it isn’t about the money it’s about even more money.
It makes one wonder, how’d they manage alright in medieval times?
Once upon a time there was IGFarben ..
everytime i go out somewhere i see some spic groundskeeper spraying this toxic stuff on sidewalks, curbs lawns etc..10 to 1 this is the cause of most cases of cancer & other illneses– being exposed to this poison everyday