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‘It’s an abomination’: battle brewing over proposed US laws to protect pesticide companies (www.theguardian.com)

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Cancer patients are celebrating a string of courtroom victories after juries in three US states recently ordered Germany’s Bayer to pay more than $500m in damages for failing to warn about the health risks of its Roundup herbicides. But the consumer wins come as proposed federal legislation backed by Bayer and the powerful agricultural industry could limit similar cases from ever going to trial in the future.

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[–] Sendbeer@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

“Farmers and consumers need to not only be able to trust the regulation of the products they use but trust that the government has made decisions based on agreed-upon and established science, facts and data.”

Yeah that's the thing. We DON'T trust any of you fucks.