ROUNDUP – FOOD CAPTURE?
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As the US enters its peak summer growing season, gardeners plant and weed, and groundskeepers mow parks and playing fields. Many are using the popular weed killer, Roundup, which is widely available at [American] stores like Home Depot and Target.
Recently, three US juries awarded multimillion-dollar verdicts to plaintiffs who asserted that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, gave them non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system. Bayer, a German chemical company, bought Roundup’s inventor, Monsanto, in 2018 and inherited some 125 000 pending lawsuits, of which
