Runaway Jury Awards ...

[dogtag]

The product Round Up may or may not have caused
the guy's cancer, but in any case you have to feel for
the guy. But for a Jury of probably normal type working
men and women - meaning none of them are rich - to
nonchalantly award damages in the amount of 290 million
is ridiculous. That sum could put many a business out
of business. Crushing monetary awards like this could
stifle research. Why bother introducing a new product
that could prove invaluable to medicine or some other
field if you run the risk of someone miss using it and
putting you in the bancruptcy court ?

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/08/10/monsanto-roundup-former-groundskeepers-cancer-290million/

[clintonhater]

Yes, there's no shortage of insane jury awards, like the fantastic one given to the senile old bitch who poured hot coffee in her lap while driving, or the one against Bell Telephone, sued because a man using a phone booth was hit by a drunk driver (that one ended the mfg. of enclosed phone booths).

However, Monsanto, that multi-billion $ purveyor of poisons, deserves NO sympathy, not if the award was a hundred times as great, because that would still be trifling, compared to their global profits derived from poisoning the land & water. No sympathy is warranted either for an idiot dousing the ground with poison for such a trivial reason as killing dandelions; cancer, if that's how he got it, is merely nature striking back.

[Major Tom]

I like RoundUp because it means I don't have to strain my back pulling weeds.

[togor]

Roundup and 2,4-D are my go-tos for invasive species control. If a guy is careful enough then exposure is minimal. I put some colorant in the mixture called Bullseye. That stuff is darker than India ink and a little goes a long way, so you know if you've got chemical on you. Truth is, if Roundup were cancerous then we'd have seen more signs of it by now, for as many 2.5 gallon xxxx and 55 gallon drums as get handled every crop season. Glyphosate has been out there for a long time now.