Farmers “Very Worried” as Pesticide Companies Push Law Blocking Litigation Against Them

They’ve known for many decades that these pesticides cause cancer, not just in the farmers that have to deal with them directly, but in the people who eat the produce.

The government doesn’t care about your health.

They say they do when they are trying to ban you from smoking or trying to force you to take experimental gene therapies, but they do not care about your health. They will give you cancer on purpose. They will give themselves cancer if it means they can make a few bucks off donations from these chemical manufacturers.

The Guardian:

Pesticide company efforts to push through laws that could block litigation against them is igniting battles in several US farm states and pitting some farm groups against each other.

Laws have been introduced in at least eight states so far and drafts are circulating in more than 20 states, backed by a deluge of advertising supporting the measures.

The fight is particularly fierce now in Iowa, where opponents call the pesticide-backed proposed law the “Cancer Gag Act”, due to high levels of cancer in Iowa that many fear are linked to the state’s large agricultural use of pesticides. Iowa has the second-highest rate of new cancer cases in the United States and the fastest growing rate.

The bill would bar people from suing pesticide manufacturers for failing to warn them of health risks, as long as the product labels are approved by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Organizers against the Iowa bill are planning a rally at the state capitol today after the state senate voted last week to advance the measure.

Opponents say the legislation will rob farmers and others who use pesticides from holding companies accountable in court if their pesticide products cause disease or injury.

“We’re very worried. Our farmers feel that if they have injuries or illnesses due to their use of a pesticide they should have access to the courts,” said Aaron Lehman, an Iowa corn and soybean farmer who is president of the Iowa Farmers Union. “We just don’t think the playing field should be tilted.”

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The actions in the states come alongside a simultaneous push for changes in federal law that would in effect shield companies from lawsuits brought by people claiming they developed cancers or other diseases due to their use of pesticides.

Bayer, the Germany-based owner of the former Monsanto Co, is the chief architect of the strategy, designed as a means to beat back thousands of lawsuits filed by farmers and others who blame their use of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicides for causing them to develop cancer.

The litigation has so far cost Bayer billions of dollars in settlements and jury verdicts favoring plaintiffs, and more cases are pending. The company says the pursuit of the legislative changes is necessary to protect its “important investments” and to ensure farmers don’t lose access to Roundup.

Hopefully RFK can get involved in this.

He’s the only man in America that can do that job.

There have been some settlements recently that indicated there could be some changes.

But there are never really any changes, are there?

Companies pay out some tiny fraction of their profits to a few of the people whose lives they’ve destroyed, and it just keeps on going.