Monsanto

Los Angeles County is suing Bayer's (OTCPK:BAYRY) Monsanto in an attempt to force payment for reducing PCB contamination in dozens of bodies of water. The lawsuit says the presence of PCBs in products sold by Monsanto many decades ago has caused widespread e…

John Draper pours glyphosate into the tank of his sprayer at the University of Maryland's Wye Research and Education Center. Dan Charles/NPR John Draper and I are sitting in the cab of a tractor on the research farm he manages for the University of Maryland…

Monsanto is the quintessential evil corporation. In the 1960s it manufactured Agent Orange, a defoliant–hardcore weedkiller–which the USA used during the Vietnam war. The military sprayed vast swaths of the jungle causing horrible health effects like cancer …

Lawyer don’ts: Don’t steal your client’s book advance “This isn’t science, it’s witchcraft”: latest verdict against Bayer/Monsanto in Roundup weedkiller/non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma case rests on ul…

These days I wouldnt like to be in the shoes of Werner Baumann, the CEO of the German pharmaceutical and life-science company Bayer (OTCPK: OTCPK:BAYZF) (OTCPK: OTCPK:BAYRY). During the last annual shareholder meeting, investors were pretty outraged and at th…

Earlier this month, a California jury leveled a $2.055 billion verdict against agribusiness behemoth Monsanto, a subsidiary of Bayer(ETR:BAYN). The award arose from allegations that a married couple contracted cancer as a result of using Monsanto's Roundup we…

As the Impossible Burger is rising to prominence as a popular meatless option, it’s facing criticism from naysayers for its ingredients. The group Moms Across America has taken aim at Impossible Foods, alleging dangerous levels of the herbicide glyphosate ha…

May 27, 2019byEd Sanders Ed Sanders is a poet, musician and writer. He founded Fuck You: a Magazine of the Arts, as well as the Fugs. He edits the Woodstock Journal. His books include: The Family, Sharon Tate: a Life and the novel Tales of Beatnik Glory.

Despite the widely held expectations of Bayer (BAYZF/ OTCPK:BAYRY) losing its third Roundup case, the markets seem to have been taken by surprise by the size of the damages awarded. As Bayers stock price is reaching its lowest in seven years, there might be …

(Bloomberg) -- A U.S. judge overseeing Roundup-cancer lawsuits against Bayer AG provisionally appointed high-profile mediator Ken Feinberg to lead settlement talks over the herbicide litigation, which has tanked the companys stock since it acquired Monsanto a…